Posted on 08/24/2022 10:44:52 AM PDT by bitt
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Call me dense but I’m not sure I follow.
Like most of the bureaucracy’s interactions with Trump, this one gets muddier and muddier...
So what was the statement??
How about getting the damn “statement” out of the way, and then allow the reader unfold the related details if interested?
near the end of the excerpt
“Now it all makes sense” was the click-bait statement.
Bratt and three FBI agents came to Mar-a-Lago.
“Whatever you need, just let us know,” Trump told the agents prior to the search, the motion said.
After Trump handed over some documents Bratt had requested, the DOJ official asked for and was given permission to search a storage room.
It was then that one of the FBI agents made an odd statement, Conservative Brief reports.
“Thank you. You did not need to show us the storage room, but we appreciate it. Now it all makes sense,” the agent said.
Bratt later asked Trump to secure the storage room, which the former president did by adding additional locks and security measure
Two months later, on Aug. 8, FBI agents arrived at Mar-a-Lago to conduct their unannounced raid and proceeded to “search” for items they had already observed stored in the home.
Questions arise as to the strange comment and even stranger actions.
Bitt
You posted this, do you have any clue what the “Damning Statement” that the FBI agent made?
“Now it all makes sense”…… NOT!
to those of us paying attention its just a re-hash
how about putting the statement in the first comment?
See post 10.
Turns out I exaggerated. The story is 850 words long. The damning statement does not appear, tho, until word 765, three grafs from the bottom. The agent asked to see the storage room for docs. The damning statement? Trump showed him the room, and agent told PDJT, you didn’t have to do that.
The buried lede, I think, is that the FBI agent was showed the storage room and thus qualifies as the so-called mole or “Insider.” If so, imagine how ridiculously cartoonish it is that Trump invited the FBI in one day and later the FBI used that information as basis for a warrant. I’ll bet the agent appeared in the warrant as a “Confidential Informant.”
After Trump handed over some documents Bratt had requested, the DOJ official asked for and was given permission to search a storage room.It was then that one of the FBI agents made an odd statement, Conservative Brief reports.
“Thank you. You did not need to show us the storage room, but we appreciate it. Now it all makes sense,” the agent said.
Bratt later asked Trump to secure the storage room, which the former president did by adding additional locks and security measure
Two months later, on Aug. 8, FBI agents arrived at Mar-a-Lago to conduct their unannounced raid and proceeded to “search” for items they had already observed stored in the home.
Questions arise as to the strange comment and even stranger actions.
A lot of words preceded that snippet.
In the original ‘visit’ by FBI in June - they sent Jay Bratt, who is “Chief at Counterintelligence and Export Control Section?”
I wonder who this guy is?
They’ll claim they had no knowledge that secret files were in a measly storage room until President Trump noted it for them to search. And, since it wasn’t secure enough to suit them, the suspicion that President Trump was handling Top Secrets improperly made sense.
I am trying to understand the author’s theory of why “Now it all makes sense” proves anything. We don’t know what the FBI agent was thinking. “Now it all makes sense. Trump had a good reason for keeping this papers here” would have proved something.
Whoever wrote the article which is a bad retelling of other articles, didn’t make it easy.
The meat of it is that Trump was allowing archives people to come to the storage room and retrieve items that were “inadvertently” transferred to Mar a Lago, presumably by the GSA during the move from the White house. The Trump team were cooperative and even on one occasion allowed DOJ Security Division Chief Jay Bratt into his home to retrieve the documents.
The innuendo is thst Bratt looked at the documents and said to someone on the Trump team. Thank you, you didn’t have to do that, now it all makes sense. The “now it all makes sense” bit is strongly hinted as Bratt knowing something about this forthcoming raid and the chance to see the storage room helped answer questions he had about why it was necessary. This would, I presume, make Bratt a source of the affidavit justification and since he was an invited guest by Trump, revealing his name would be somehow bad.
I have no idea why it couldn’t have been written nice and clear like that.
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