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.”
Any of these FBI agents who still have a shred of decency or shame will quit their jobs and say why.
It was air. The safe was empty.
Where’s that jackass Geraldo when you need him.
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You’re SO right!
“..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,”
They do WHATEVER they want now. There is NO LAW for ‘them’; why, THEY are IN CHARGE now!…
Our current crop of politicians don’t even try to hide it anymore.
Vanity: Judge Who Signed Trump Warrant Tied to Epstein Scandal
8/9/2022, 6:21:28 AM · by TigerClaws
Vanity - Various Sources
Sealed search warrant here signed by Bruce E Reinhart, magistrate judge for the Southern District of Florida https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/64872441/united-states-v-sealed-search-warrant/ On Oct 23, 2007, as federal prosecutors in South Florida were in the midst of tense negotiations to finalize a plea deal with accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a senior prosecutor in their office was quietly laying out plans to leave the U.S. attorney’s office after 11 years. On that date, as emails were flying between Epstein’s lawyers and federal prosecutors, Bruce E. Reinhart, now a federal magistrate, opened a limited liability company in Florida that established what would become his new...
whorerucchi is that you ?
The fact you don’t have a mass exodus from the FBI today tells you all you need to know.
The MSM barely mentions the story. TV viewers are getting extended coverage of Olivia Newton Johns’ movie and music life.
Maybe her death triggered the timing of the raid — a useful distraction. Move along people, nothing happening of any significance in Palm Beach... /s
a 25 year old girl with 2nd hand gossip makes news. GOD help us....
It seems you are right, so far - but I worked for big corporations in the 70s and 80s where top brass and mega shareholders were screwing everyone else over. Nobody dared to say anything…. at first. A couple of us quit early on, but without saying anything.
Then, a few years later when the shit hit the fan, all these whistleblowers came out of the woodwork when it was too late.
If the Democrats get desperate and overplay their hand, you could see the same thing - rats leaving the ship.
“whatever the FBI uncovered, it could ultimately lead to unsuspected new evidence in both of the investigations.”
Yeah?
Warrants now cover “unsuspected” evidence?
26 states don’t have front license plates
Its a lot like trying to leave the mob - except for them there is no witness protection.
Hello Sir, I can’t locate them right now. Do You have pics of the civilian men/women/child targets ?
gear queer, looking for a pregnant woman or little kid to backshoot.
Wish I could share in your optimism.
How absurd!
How absurd!
I think it is indeed a machine gun, a select fire short barreled rifle/ carbine.
Banned w/o permit, tax stamp and such by the fedgov and some states.
It’s not a machine gun in the sense of crew served or belt fed, but by legal definition, more than a single shot with a single manipulation of the trigger.
Is this officer a local Sheriffs deputy or a fed? I see a star on his chest, and a shield on his belt.
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