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.”
The DOJ and FBI conducted an “insurrection” against a Former President
of the United States.
We have become a Banana Republic.
Better get used to it. Remember “Boston Strong”? Remember the police state tactics in Watertown? The warrantless, Fallujah type, clearing of innocent citizens from their homes was celebrated across the country. Most of the telling videos have been scrubbed from the internet unfortunately. I’m very pro law and order but trust the city cops nowadays about as much as I do teachers. Local city and state cops could go “Boston Strong” on any community looking for MAGA “violent domestic extremists”.
When they shot JFK.............................
November 22, 1963. Remember President Eisenhower told us about the DS (military industrial complex) and now here we are, a third world shithole where citizens have no rights unless the government grants them. Time to shut this sucker down for good.
The place to start is by doxxing the judge who signed off on the warrant.
Russia Russia Russia showed how they concocted evidence to try to oust Trump...
Long overdue.
Totally Lawless Regime MUST END!
I was in Mexico....the police were riding the beaches...armed and ready...
That’s technically a crime. Not that it matters to liberals, when they protest SCOTUS.
But they will selectively enforce the law.
“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 Deep State is in a panic. I’m surprised they haven’t yet tried to poison Trump.
From my files:
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”
Apparently we're seeing the beginning of the end. Concerned citizens do no more than chest thumping on a computer keyboard. And elected reps and law enforcement are on the payrolls of our enemies. Doesn't leave many options.
trump was smart enough to upload all his files to hunter biden’s laptop.
in the folder marked, kdprn...
The American People have just been attacked, and now President Trump will become vastly more powerful in expanding his support base by many more millions.
Joe Biden just signed his own political death warrant.If he thinks he can illegally and unconstitutionally prevent Donald J Trump from running, he has just assured the beginning of CW2 as well as WW3 with China, Russia, North Korea and Iran by weakening not only at home , but by weakening America abroad.
The People will not put up with such totalitarian advances and attacks on the Republic, political persecution.
When the Red Tsunami comes, the Dems will be awash in their own blood, and they will be so purged that they will not attain control of national offices for the next 20 years or more.
MAGA!
That would insure that the FBI would NEVER FIND THEM!....................
Machine guns? Really?
So what, what were they expecting to confront?
DC Courts and their judges have also been exposed as uninterested in the Constitution and its laws, rather they are interested in showing their “power” which are characterized in truth as despotic.
Yep, how long has this been going on?
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