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FBI Raid On Mar-A-Lago Ensnared More Than Just Former President: Report
The Daily Wire ^ | • Aug 10, 2022 | By Ryan Saavedra

Posted on 08/10/2022 6:16:53 AM PDT by Red Badger

Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) rooted through the personal belongings of former first lady Melania Trump as they executed a search warrant believed to be connected to classified material that former President Donald Trump was supposed to return to the National Archives earlier this year.

The New York Post reported Tuesday afternoon that the agents “scoured Melania Trump’s wardrobe” in the Versailles Master Bedroom at the Mar-a-Lago residence.

Lawyers for the Department of Justice present during the raid reportedly informed Trump’s representatives that the search warrant gave them “full access to everything” on site.

Reports have claimed that Trump’s lawyers were not allowed to observe agents searching the property, although this has not yet been confirmed.

Federal agents executed the search warrant because they reportedly believed that Trump had not turned over 15 boxes of material, which included documents marked as “top secret,” until there was a serious risk of legal action being taken.

Federal agents removed more than 10 boxes of material, which is being sorted at a local FBI field office, from the property during the raid.

Agents were reportedly at the property the entire day and were dressed in plain clothes, leading staff to believe that they were U.S. Secret Service agents, which is why news of the executed search warrant did not leak.

Trump’s Secret Service agents were notified about the raid only moments before it occurred. Trump had lawyers present during the raid while he was at his residence in New York City.

Federal prosecutors opened a grand jury investigation back in May into Trump over whether classified material that ended up at his home in Mar-a-Lago was mishandled.

The main purpose of these types of investigations is usually for federal authorities to determine if any classified material was compromised so that intelligence officials can take steps to protect sensitive sources and methods. Prosecutors are seeking to learn every aspect of how the documents were handled from the time the documents left the White House until they were returned to the National Archives.

For prosecutors to be able to prove that a crime was committed, they would need evidence showing that the parties involved in removing the documents from the White House knew that the documents were classified and knew that removing them would violate the law.

“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,” Trump said in a statement. “After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate.”

“They even broke into my safe!” Trump said. “It is political targeting at the highest level!”


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: creepstate; deepstate; desantisknew; donutwatch; maralagoraid; pantyraid; pantysniffers; persecution; policestate; raid; singlepartystate; tooksomelingerie
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To: Starboard

American voters have been lulled into a false sense of well-being by the deep state and their agents in the main stream media, and the takeover by the fascists/communists is almost complete. The democrat party is now the American Communist Party, and they will tell any lie and break any law to get what they want: complete control of everything and everybody.

Washington, DC is for all intents and purposes a separate country from the rest of the USA. We have allowed them to become almost omnipotent with regard to controlling our nation, and reversing the direction we’re heading in will be extremely difficult. Got to get all the old Washington reprobates and their supporters out of any position of influence over anything.


61 posted on 08/10/2022 7:20:46 AM PDT by Rlsau1
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Trump and his lawyers are just taking this too well. It just feels odd. 😉


62 posted on 08/10/2022 7:22:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Sirius Lee

I wonder how much stuff they stole?........................


63 posted on 08/10/2022 7:24:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

How will they try to prove intent? What a maroon! What a Gull a Bull!


64 posted on 08/10/2022 7:25:36 AM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos.)
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To: Yo-Yo

LOL!!!!


65 posted on 08/10/2022 7:29:58 AM PDT by Enterprise
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To: Pollard

SEAN HANNITY'S DREAMY-TIME FAIRY TALES


66 posted on 08/10/2022 7:32:27 AM PDT by Iron Munro ( Joe Biden - Inventor Of The First New Language since Esperanto)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

*The judge that signed the warrant was a Trump appointee who had recused himself previously when Trump sued Killary. But he didn’t recuse himself this week.*

Thought judge was a Clinton appt.


67 posted on 08/10/2022 7:36:19 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: Red Badger

TO ALL FBI AGENTS:

Keep your pensions

Lose your souls


68 posted on 08/10/2022 7:37:31 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: thegagline

My thought. An editorial cartoon showing a burly, hairy FBI agent wearing one of Melania’s negligees after taking off his uniform, while showing off to other agents, then angrily snapping out: “Call me Ma’am!”


69 posted on 08/10/2022 7:38:44 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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To: Red Badger

One has to wonder how many of Melania's panties and bras were surreptitiously slipped into FBI pockets as souvenirs of the FBI's big moment.


70 posted on 08/10/2022 7:40:24 AM PDT by Iron Munro ( Joe Biden - Inventor Of The First New Language since Esperanto)
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To: Pete Dovgan
 
 
I think they were interested in what he may be working on, putting together, stealing intel on his political projects. Instead of trying to slog through all the spying monkeymotion like they did last time, which Trump has probably now rendered very difficult if not unreliable through countermeasures, they elected to take a direct approach using the Jan. 06 persecutions as cover to justify it. Just find a shady judge to sign off on it and voila. Hopefully Trump anticipated something like this and took steps to keep them out of his work.
 
 

71 posted on 08/10/2022 7:42:47 AM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Whatever Works

We need to exchange Brandon for the Prime Minister of Poland, and watch the Fbi screw up the polka.


72 posted on 08/10/2022 7:42:48 AM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: Starboard
Anyone who doesn’t or equivocates needs to get the boot.

We can start with Graham and McConnell and just keep going. Those people need to be rendered private citizens pronto.

73 posted on 08/10/2022 7:43:37 AM PDT by Allegra
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To: joshua c

You are beating a dead horse. They lost their souls long ago. When they gleefully roasted the innocent infants at Mount Carmel alive. [WACO]. Janet Reno is waiting to welcome them to their home.


74 posted on 08/10/2022 7:46:29 AM PDT by sport
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To: Red Badger

Hmmm, not sure I see how that is likely.


75 posted on 08/10/2022 7:48:11 AM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: Pollard

What a Deep State stooge Hannity is.


76 posted on 08/10/2022 7:50:35 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: AndyTheBear

My guess:

Trump set a trap by having a new safe installed.

A leaker/traitor/Rat was told or allowed to ‘overhear’ that Top Secret Documents were being hidden in that safe.

The Rat dutifully reported that to his handlers, at the FBI.

FBI gets Search Warrant based on that faulty information.

Sets up BIG RAID ON TRUMP ESTATE for the MEDIA to observe and finds NOTHING IN SAFE.

They have to save face, so they take the very same documents that they had earlier cleared so that they can be seen carrying something from the home..................


77 posted on 08/10/2022 7:51:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: moovova
Please, please tell me Shannity didn’t actually say that.

He did.

78 posted on 08/10/2022 7:51:39 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

WE WENT ALL THE WAY TO FLORIDA TO RANSACK TRUMP'S MANSION
AND ALL I GOT TO SHOW FOR IT IS THIS BRA I SWIPED FROM MELANIA


79 posted on 08/10/2022 7:53:36 AM PDT by Iron Munro ( Joe Biden - Inventor Of The First New Language since Esperanto)
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To: lapsus calami

interesting idea

I really worry what is going to happen if he gets elected. DOJ setting everything up as a warning to anyone who gets involved with another Trump administration.

I dont know that there are enough people willing to take the risk that would not be traitors in disguise


80 posted on 08/10/2022 7:53:59 AM PDT by RummyChick
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