Posted on 09/03/2022 10:23:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
FBI agents seized over 11,000 documents and photographs without classified markings from the home of former President Donald Trump, according to an inventory released on Sept. 2.
They also took 103 documents marked classified, including some marked top secret.
The warrant, approved by U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart days earlier, enabled agents to seize any documents with classification markings, as well as containers in which the documents were located and any containers stored or found together with the documents.
It also let agents seize information regarding the retrieval, storage, or transmission of national defense information or classified material; any government and/or presidential records created between Jan. 20, 2017, and Jan. 20, 2021; and any evidence “of the knowing alteration, destruction, or concealment of any government and/or Presidential Records, or of any documents with classification markings.”
A property receipt, or inventory list, was given to a Trump lawyer as agents left, but the more detailed inventory list was submitted to a federal court on Friday on the orders of a judge.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, is considering whether to appoint a special master to review the materials the government seized and separate out those that may be privileged.
The more detailed receipt also shows that the government seized 1,673 magazines/newspapers/press articles and other printed media, some dating back to 2008; 48 empty folders with classified banners; 42 empty folders labeled “return to staff secretary/military aide”; 19 articles of clothing/gift items; and 33 books.
The original inventory listed no gifts or clothing, no folders, and no books.
It primarily listed boxes of items, miscellaneous documents, some classified, and binders of photographs.
The government later acknowledged that it seized three passports from Trump that have since been returned.
Taylor Budowich, a Trump spokesman, said the new list “only further proves that this unprecedented and unnecessary raid of President Trump’s home was not some surgical, confined search and retrieval that the Biden administration claims, it was a SMASH AND GRAB.”
“These document disputes should be resolved under the Presidential Records Act, which requires cooperation and negotiation by NARA, not an armed FBI raid,” he added.
The investigation started after a referral from the National Archives and Records Administration.
The agency received boxes of documents from Mar-a-Lago in January and identified some with classified markings. Officials notified the Department of Justice, which later gained access to the materials and confirmed the markings.
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Amazing.
So how big were these mystery boxes to contain all this stuff?
fbi agent: hey here’s the memo where i commit like a thousand felonies. do you have any room in your pants? mine are stuffed
Divided over 4 yrs. ....not bad.
Did the FBI provide an inventory list of Melania’s underwear that they seized or are they saving them for Wray’s Christmas party? SARC?
Obama took MILLIONS with him....
Did the FIB look into the estimated 30 million files Obama left with?
If each of the 11,000 documents were 1 page each plus top sheet, it’d require 110+ reams of paper.
Seems like someone is ‘padding the bill’
The punishment is the process. One can be completely innocent but the government can “investigate” anyone and make it look like the person is guilty just by investigating the person in the first place.
democrats are simply evil, folks.
Grocery list, birthday cards, family photos, etc.
And what was the titles of those books...?
Anything by Enoch Powell...Kafka or Churchill....or George Orwell...?
As I understand it, there are no documents at Obama’s residence. Instead, the NARA set up its own facility in Chicago, where it’s screening documents for possible transfer to the Obama presidential library. The key is that all the documents remain under the control of NARA.
So the real question is whether NARA is doing something similar in Florida. Does Trump even want to have a presidential library?
Regardless of NARA, it is my understanding that there was coordination between the ‘government’ and President Trump on where, how what records he had were stored. All indications from him indicate he complied with whatever requests the government made. And, as for Obama, I simply don’t believe that he doesn’t have any documents. Just don’t believe it. NARA was weaponized to whatever extent the DOJ/FBI needed to get something on Trump and keep him from running in 2024
How many were private documents pertaining to President’s Trumps private business. Probably looking through those to see what they can find. This is just a disgrace.
Hay, I’m sure the next thing they will do is to seize the 33 million documents Obama took and put in his temple ... I mean library and then charge Hillary for putting over 30,000 documents, many classified, on public servers, which were probably promptly hacked, with treason,
When I had access to classified documents, NONE were marked "Classified". They were marked either "Confidential", "Secret", or "Top-Secret".
Not so silent coup
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