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 is one of those deadly AK-15’s that will explode the lungs of any miscreant within 200 feet................
J. Edgar taught them well.........................
Machine gun or not, the pic is beyond disturbing in America. China or NK, yes, but not here.
Better example: Roger Stone being raided by the FBI in the early morning hours, and CNN just happens to have a news videographer stationed outside of Stone's home.
I’ve been to Mar-a-Lago. Officers with weapons like that are standard at the entrances…
Is that a Black Maria?
To protect a former President, not to raid his home
Isn’t it cute that people (post #1) recite what the FBI can’t/can do within the parameters of the law? When did the FBI start caring about the law? When did they stop lying and falsifying evidence?
I don’t think so......................
Damned right.
The lying media must be punished when we regain power. And we will regain power. They are evil, rotten to the core. None of this would be possible without the lying media, who work for the Father of lies, Satan.
While I would agree that would be a measured response assuming the protest/doxxing was in the SAME VEIN as those launched against SCOTUS Judges. However SCOTUS judges are Republicans, so LEOS were ordered to do nothing to protect them even though Federal Law was obviously violated.
Assuming this judge is bought and paid for by DEMOCRATS, I believe that Federal LEOS will gleefully shoot to kill any protesters. They are all itching for their own personal Ruby Ridge Adventure.
Question, how many Americans must be murdered before Americans start shooting back?
It’s not a machine gun.
So what, what were they expecting to confront?
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Irate parents from a school board meeting, aka terrorists.
The ChiComs have extended their Blockade Drills surrounding Taiwan. Is this a distraction so the Usurper can gift Xi?
That agent is obviously an arrogant, smug, evil prick.
Look at his face, my gawd.
Any agent that took part in that raid should be ashamed.
“..Study that picture. THAT is what the ENEMY LOOKS LIKE.
Simply: Buzz-Cut, Knuckle-Dragging, Badge-Monkeys.
Odd, No Ray-Bans???....”
Yep. Too bad he didn’t take one right square in the crotch.....from his own weapon. LOL
It was air. The safe was empty.
Correct.
Post 75.
I would think his SS agents would love their assignment. The rally’s, the love shown Trump, and add to that his kindness toward them and their families.
“That agent is obviously an arrogant, smug, evil prick.
Look at his face, my gawd.”
Reminds me a bit of the thug pointing his weapon at a terrified Elian Gonzales. That was the day when I knew America was pretty much over.
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