Posted on 08/09/2022 5:34:54 AM PDT by Red Badger
This was the scene outside the Palm Beach resort Mar-a-Lago owned by Donald Trump on Monday night soon after the former president revealed the FBI had launched a raid on his property.
The image, snapped by local media WPTV, show what appears to be a plain-clothed Secret Service agent with his weapon — an automatic machine gun — as he paraded outside the property.
An unmarked vehicle is also in the picture exiting Mar-a-Lago.
Radar has confirmed the FBI notified its counterparts at the Secret Service that a warrant would be executed and Secret Service facilitated access to the property without issue.
Trump was not at home during the time.
It’s understood the ex-president was either in New York City or at his New Jersey golf club, Bedminster, as the search warrant was executed.
It did not stop him from revealing the unprecedented law enforcement action via a statement on his social media platform just before 7 p.m ET.
"These are dark times for our nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents. Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before," he said.
Trump did not specify why the FBI was searching his estate.
But as Radar reported, the search warrant focused on seizing classified documents the former president was supposed to turn over to the National Archives.
Trump is at the center of two criminal probes: the investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and the probe of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
A source with knowledge of the circumstances of the raid said “whatever the FBI uncovered, it could ultimately lead to unsuspected new evidence in both of the investigations.”
“However, any decision to launch a raid like this is not ever made without the full consent of the nation’s top law enforcement official,” the insider told RadarOnline.com
“That is Attorney General Merrick Garland and in order for Garland to give the green light on a raid of this magnitude, he needs to be convinced that his deputies had enough evidence of the commission of a criminal offense," the source added. “It’s not just Garland’s view, either. A judge would have had to view the search warrant request from the Department of Justice and issued the order to search for and seize property.”
It’s not a machine gun.
It’s started.
From the article:
“It’s not just Garland’s view, either. A judge would have had to view the search warrant request from the Department of Justice and issued the order to search for and seize property.”
Garland is a radical partisan hack, and we know how unreliable FBI evidence is from previous warrants against Trump.
To a reporter it is..........................
After Trump beat the shit out of secret service agents in “The Beast” and took control of the steering wheel, can you blame them for needed machine guns to protects themselves from him? /s
Yes, indeed. A watershed event. Many years ago, we had a Starter. Now, we have a finisher.
Nothing can stop this... nothing.
Reporters call it the AK-15.
How far are we from O’Biden’s Ceausescu Moment?
Study that picture. THAT is what the ENEMY LOOKS LIKE.
Simply: Buzz-Cut, Knuckle-Dragging, Badge-Monkeys.
Odd, No Ray-Bans???
good opportunity to fabricate “evidence”.
Effing outrageous and ridiculous. Absolutely a new low of Biden’s politicized DoJ.
Okay, all you craven jackals in the media and all democrats (but I repeat myself), how will you spin this monstrous outrage? Putin must be taking notes.
“The image, snapped by local media WPTV,”
So, was the media alerted ahead of time (so that the fbi could put on a show about the raid) or did they learn about it after the fact?
Example:
NYT media columnist on FBI raid of James O’Keefe: ‘I don’t think journalists should be cheerleading this one’
“We do not know how the New York Times was aware of the execution of a search warrant at our reporter’s home or the subject matter of the search warrant as a grand jury investigation is secret,” O’Keefe said
https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-times-ben-smith-project-veritas-james-okeefe-fbi-raid
I'm ready!
It's time.
“We want these weapons of war off the streets ... and into the hands of weaponized, politicized, stasi agents of the DNC, Hillary Clinton and the Deep State. And 80,000 more IRS agents.”
...........just curious, in his pea brain, WHO was this clown standing at the gate to Mara Lago protecting his fellow stasis agents from ????
One could presume that he was ready to OPEN FIRE on any Trump supporter that came along. Thus, I think this photo illustrates conclusively the degree to which THE LEFT is gripped with paranoia about it’s looming judgment date on November 8.
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