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.”
He looks pretty proud of himself
Hey Gat Boy go to the gym
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The FBI went to President Trump’s home with a gun designed to kill as many people as quickly as possible.
Why?
The FBI went to President Trump’s home with a gun designed to kill as many people as quickly as possible.
Why?
This is unprecedented in all of our nation’s history.................
Fishing.....................
Has anybody Doxxed him yet?
MG - Full auto....same difference...
Front plates are required for border states
That FBI slob is a disgrace to his sex, his race, and his country.
Yeah....a leftist judge....
“good opportunity to fabricate “evidence”.”
I have no doubt that Trump has redundant HD video systems in all of his properties.
Only the FBI would break into an empty safe. Wonder what the cost of Trump’s safe was?
The FBI has become a clown show. Correction, it was already a clown show, under Garland they have become a freak show.
Can’t wait to see what judge signed off on this.
Impeachments and removals from office are coming in 2023.
What is it, then? If it fires more than one cartridge each time the trigger is pulled, and is of rifle caliber yhen it is a machine gun. If it usees pistol ammunition and fires more than one cartridge each time the trigger is pulled, it is a sub-machine gun.
He can take his “pretend trigger finger off the trigger” and stick it up his ..........
“ 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.””
There are reports that until four years ago, the judge was in private practice, defending Epstein employees and customers.
It could be full auto.
Correct. The rule of law is dead and buried in an unmarked grave. It has been for some time now.
Goon
Florida doesn't require them. However, in the two states I've lived in that don't require front plates (AZ and NM), federal vehicles still were required to run both plates (except on trailers and motorcycles - these only have a rear plate). Federal vehicles fall under federal rules for license plates. They have to run both front and back plates. That would mean this isn't a fed vehicle.
Feds are required to run two plates. See my post 119.
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