They wanted to get their hands on the “Crossfire Hurricane” documents so that Trump could not use them against them. They also wanted to gather any information they could find on his plans and intentions to start preparing countermeasures.
There was no real expectation that they would find anything they could actually use against him (although they were hoping), but they still considered it worth doing because if it all falls to pieces, the Democrats will just step back, point to the FBI and say it was all their fault.
DJT supposedly had and declassified the Crossfire Hurricane documents while he was still President. A failure to release them at that time is completely inexplicable to me. There should have been a hundred copies distributed to to newspapers and internet bloggers.
The older they get the lower their value and the time for heads to roll was while he was still in office.
As much as I support him I can not understand why he delayed on this.
One has to wonder if he baited them into this whole thing.
They went right to the safe as if they believed it had something in it. Nothing.
He just has boxes filled with paperwork with big red stamps, Crossfire Hurricane. They just start grabbing it all only to find out it’s all pumpkin pie recipes.
But they did, apparently, get some attorney-client stuff and that is no bueno. And with that, if there’s some type of leak about something that could only have come from some of that paperwork, he’d have them dead to rights. Kind of like when they caught that Wolfe guy by identifying certain markings on paperwork so they were able to tell where it came from.
And of course, given that he legally declassified so much, perhaps all they got were the copies he left out for them.
I think you may be right. They were on a fishing expedition. They were probably worried about other papers (information) he might also have in his possession.
ALL of this CRAP happened because Trump filed a RICO lawsuit against HILLIARY and the OTHER EVILS!