So, in a historical first against a sitting or former President, a politicized DOJ, during the course of a dispute over whether Trump properly declassified some documents before he tossed them in his basement, applies for a search warrant to collect “confidential” documents at a President’s residence, to spark a little drama and ignite some false outrage among the Dem partisan faithful. The substantive reality behind all the bluster is Trump may have missed a procedural step in declassifying them which he was unilaterally permitted to do just before he left office and took them to his residence in which case there would be no case if he had done so. He left his flank open and hardball Dem politics took over. Does anyone truly believe that if Trump was a former Democrat President that Garland would be pursuing this. Throw in the usual no one is above the law (other than Hillary Clinton and the upper management of the FBI) narrative to raise the dispute over a procedural step to the level of a purported crime and one would think Trump stole more than $950 of merchandise from Walgreen’s.
Don’t expect a report on the Mar-a-Lago raid anytime soon. The FBI-CIA report, “Arizona: Long Range Nexus for Islamic Extremists,” has yet to be exhibited though twenty years have passed. The intelligence agencies are really loathe to produce reports which demonstrate they have f’d-up.
He left his flank open
I don’t even think he did that. I’m thinking he found out he had a snitch in his midst.
They went right to the safe. Dry hole. So, they started tossing the house. Bad move and one that shows their desperation.
If they were told that the “info” they wanted was in that safe, being in a SCIF, means that there are only a handful of folks that would have access and the knowledge of it being there. Could be a staffer. Could be the Secret Service.
Could be that someone close to him has found themselves hemmed up in something else...gambling, drugs, etc...and the FBI used that against them. I think time will tell. Especially, from what I read, that the FBI doesn’t want to give up their source.
I mean, it’s not like Pres Trump is Gotti and they’ll take out the persons family or dump them in a vat of acid like the Cartels do.