Posted on 08/12/2022 12:57:47 AM PDT by Morgana
If someone in Donald Trump's circle tipped off the FBI ahead of the raid of Mar-a-Lago, that person would have to be 'very close' to the former president, according to former acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney.
'I didn't know there was a safe at Mar-a-Lago and I was the chief of staff for 15 months,' Mulvaney told CNN's New Day.
The former chief of staff said that a potential informant would have to be 'really close' to the former president to know where he kept documents at Mar-a-Lago.
'This would be someone who was handling things on day to day, who knew where documents were, so it would be somebody very close inside the president, my guess is there's probably six or eight people who had that kind of information,' Mulvaney predicted.
Newsweek reported earlier this week that Monday's raid had been guided by details an from an informant who told the FBI what documents were still in Trump's possession and where they would be located. The Wall Street Journal confirmed there was a 'rat' within Trump's orbit.
The former president has increasingly become paranoid even some of his closest friends may be working against him. On multiple occasions in May, Trump wondered aloud if Republicans who visited him at his golf club could be 'wearing a wire,' sources told Rolling Stone.
And as of Wednesday Trump and his allies have begun speculating who among them could be the snitch.
All official documents are supposed to be handed over to the National Archives upon leaving the presidency.
The National Archives already retrieved 15 boxes of documents from Trump's property earlier this year, but someone familiar with Trump's document storage reportedly told investigators there still may be more documents at the private club.
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The Rat must have been paid a bundle...........
No snitch. Made up to impress the judge.
Or very close to Garland? Or non existent?
Kushner!
Probably was Mulvaney.
Hell, I think Trump cranked called them and ate popcorn and watched them on camera from NY. He knew what they would do. He baited them
This discussion is wholly beneath FR.
The FIB had YEARS to assign agents to background on Trump staff.
EVERYBODY has secrets. All they needed was someone with a lot to lose to coerce assuming, of course, that this person wasn’t in his inner circle the entire time. My bet is that Trump suspected all along and that this ‘mole’ was set up.
It’s what the feds do. There are innumerous examples across the country of the FIB, for example, manipulating people into doing bad things. Fast & Furious was one; Wisconsin was just one of the latest examples.
That fact should frighten all of us because all they’ve got left is a false flag, absent a genuine ‘crisis’ to manipulate to their benefit.
My thoughts exactly. It would be the coolest thing if it were the case that Trump discovered there was a mole and then set him up knowing he would scurry back to his FBI handlers. Fabricate just enough intimation to get the mole excited and then sit back and let the DOJ do all the rest.
Falsely insinuating or claiming a “mole” can be used to manipulate and cause chaos within an organization. It’s an old FBI mafia trick.
Yup.
What snitch? Feds knew everything there from numerous meetings with attorneys and DJTrump, himself. The cover story on this is that the Archives wanted them back (kinda like the millions of pages Obama made off with and never returned). “Wanting them back” => you know what went missing.
Agree we will never know if there was an informant it’s all part of their story to do the raid.
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