BREAKING>>FBI raids Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

[mystery-ak]

Johnathan Ford ☮️
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Apparently by News Week there was someone inside Mar-a-lago that told the FBI what documents Trump was hiding and the places he was hiding them. The FBI did in fact by reports have an informant.



Exclusive: An Informer Told the FBI What Docs Trump Was Hiding, and Where
By William M. Arkin On 8/10/22 at 10:03 AM EDT

The raid on Mar-a-Lago was based largely on information from an FBI confidential human source, one who was able to identify what classified documents former President Trump was still hiding and even the location of those documents, two senior government officials told Newsweek.

The officials, who have direct knowledge of the FBI's deliberations and were granted anonymity in order to discuss sensitive matters, said the raid of Donald Trump's Florida residence was deliberately timed to occur when the former president was away.

FBI decision-makers in Washington and Miami thought that denying the former president a photo opportunity or a platform from which to grandstand (or to attempt to thwart the raid) would lower the profile of the event, says one of the sources, a senior Justice Department official who is a 30-year veteran of the FBI.

The effort to keep the raid low-key failed: instead, it prompted a furious response from GOP leaders and Trump supporters. "What a spectacular backfire," says the Justice official.

"I know that there is much speculation out there that this is political persecution, but it is really the best and the worst of the bureaucracy in action," the official says. "They wanted to punctuate the fact that this was a routine law enforcement action, stripped of any political overtones, and yet [they] got exactly the opposite."

Both senior government officials say the raid was scheduled with no political motive, the FBI solely intent on recovering highly classified documents that were illegally removed from the White House. Preparations to conduct such an operation began weeks ago, but in planning the date and time, the FBI Miami Field Office and Washington headquarters were focused on the former president's scheduled return to Florida from his residences in New York and New Jersey.

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https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-informer-told-fbi-what-docs-trump-was-hiding-where-1732283

[catfish1957]

I hope the CI was a double agent, and DJT masterfully embarassed the DOJ....

Maybe the criminal FBI needs more baiting.

[mystery-ak]

Trump Should Be Worried About Who in Inner Circle 'Flipped': Lawyer
By Katherine Fung On 8/10/22 at 11:27 AM EDT

As speculations swirl over what information granted the FBI Monday's search warrant of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home, one lawyer is advising Trump to start questioning who in his circle "flipped" and offered up the tip to the federal law enforcement agency.

Former United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama Joyce White Vance explained that because the probable cause—the reason investigators believe the property is connected to a crime—must be "fresh," it is likely that the sensitive information obtained by the FBI was recent.

"So Trump should be worried about who has flipped, or as we might say in the south, who all," Vance tweeted on Wednesday.

In an exclusive, two senior government officials told Newsweek that the Mar-a-Lago raid was largely based on information from an informant who told the FBI what documents Trump was hiding in his Florida resort and where they were located.

Both officials said that the search warrant was sought without a political motive and that the FBI was solely focused on recovering the classified documents that belong to the National Archives.

The Biden administration has also maintained that the Justice Department works independently, but Trump and many of his allies have claimed that the sitting president ordered the raid. Trump has also suggested that the FBI "planted" evidence while searching his home.

"Trumpworld is abuzz with speculation about which close aide or aides has 'flipped' and provided additional sensitive information to the FBI about what former President Trump was keeping at Mar-a-Lago," Axios' Mike Allen reported on Wednesday.

According to Trump's lawyer Christina Bobb, the FBI removed about a dozen boxes that had been stored in the basement storage area of his home on Monday.

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https://www.newsweek.com/joyce-white-vance-donald-trump-inner-circle-who-flipped-1732532

[mystery-ak]

Stephen Colbert Calls FBI Trump Raid Christmas: ‘We All Got the Present We Wanted’

CBS’ left-wing The Late Show host Stephen Colbert says the FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s home is like Christmas, adding, “we all got the present we wanted.”

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/08/10/stephen-colbert-calls-fbi-trump-raid-christmas-we-all-got-the-present-we-wanted/

[Hoodat]

If you believe otherwise, please find the pertinent caselaw that says otherwise.

Michigan v. Summers, 452 U.S. 692 (1981)

[Hoodat]

Stephen Colbert Calls FBI Trump Raid Christmas: ‘We All Got the Present We Wanted’

And now you know how Germany's National Socialists were able to kill 6 million Jews.

[catfish1957]

Stephen Colbert Calls FBI Trump Raid Christmas: ‘We All Got the Present We Wanted’

CBS’ left-wing The Late Show host Stephen Colbert says the FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s home is like Christmas, adding, “we all got the present we wanted.”

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/08/10/stephen-colbert-calls-fbi-trump-raid-christmas-we-all-got-the-present-we-wanted/

Colbert frequented Epstein Island.  Our Christmas will be when he finally gets nailed for what he did there.

[txradioguy]

@txradioguy @Bigun

I get the sense that "stuff" is as specific as the current US Goobermint needs to come.

After all,their courts,their justices,their rules.

Yeah,you can appeal it and spend every dime you have getting lawyers to file briefs for years,but by the time you win on appeal and get the charges dropped,you will be broke and living in a State Farm for Fools and have a drip cut attached to your wheelchair.

Judges have a little wiggle room on the details they must have in a search warrant but not much.

If your search warrant says you're searching the bedroom and office of X at their residence Y for items related to Z you can't go snooping in the garage or any out buildings and "discover" something. Any evidence you find outside the scope of the warrant is inadmissible.

The cops would have to stop call the judge and get the building, car room etc added to the warrant to be able to lawfully search the new area.

[roamer_1]

No one is attacking state sovereignty least of all Texas! That lawsuit was about Pennsylvania's violations of the FEDERAL constitution (can't change the rules in the middle of the game) and SCOTUS had original jurisdiction! @roamer_1

Obviously, the SCOTUS did not agree, @Bigun - And like I said before, I don't know the rules were changed in the middle of the game - As the sole author and arbiter, the state legislature would seem to be the ones to determine that... THEY would have standing - Not the state of Texas, or the SCOTUS. Their acquiescence is acceptance, as they are their own remedy.

And we need not beat this to death yet again.

[txradioguy]

Obviously, the SCOTUS did not agree, @Bigun - And like I said before, I don't know the rules were changed in the middle of the game - As the sole author and arbiter, the state legislature would seem to be the ones to determine that... THEY would have standing - Not the state of Texas, or the SCOTUS. Their acquiescence is acceptance, as they are their own remedy.

And we need not beat this to death yet again.

In the case of Pennsylvania they weren't the sole arbiter though. Mark Elias and the AG for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania...who is running for Governor by the way...circumvented the state and federal constitution in this instance.

[Hoodat]

In an exclusive, two senior government officials told Newsweek that the Mar-a-Lago raid was largely based on information from an informant who told the FBI what documents Trump was hiding in his Florida resort and where they were located.

If this is true, then FBI agents had no business being in that residence for 9+ hours.

[catfish1957]

If this is true, then FBI agents had no business being in that residence for 9+ hours.

9hrs?

That tells me this was a dry run.  Hope these guys were baited.

[Kamaji]

Must a warrant specify what is being looked for?

It has to adequately describe the evidence being sought for.

[Kamaji]

If this is true, then FBI agents had no business being in that residence for 9+ hours.

It depends on whether they did a full inventory on-site and how long it took to do the inventory.  If they pulled each document out of those 15 boxes and wrote a description of each, then it could very well have taken 9 hours or so.

[Hoodat]

In the case of Pennsylvania they weren't the sole arbiter though. Mark Elias and the AG for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania...who is running for Governor by the way...circumvented the state and federal constitution in this instance.

This ultimately comes down to the fourth branch of government.  Here in Georgia, we knew in April 2020 that the Secretary of State was violating the law.  We did nothing.  May?  Same thing.  June, July, August, September?  Same thing.  Then in October, the Secretary of State signed off on making changes to the code on all voting machines without recertifying - again in violation of State law.  And what did we do?  Nothing.

And then we have election day.  So far so good.  Yet in the days following election day, law after law after law was violated.  And we did nothing.  And because we did nothing, we allowed our Secretary of State to effectively select the winners of every election.  And there is nothing the State of Texas can do to change that.

[Hoodat]

It depends on whether they did a full inventory on-site and how long it took to do the inventory.  If they pulled each document out of those 15 boxes and wrote a description of each, then it could very well have taken 9 hours or so.

The boxes were unopened.

[catfish1957]

It depends on whether they did a full inventory on-site and how long it took to do the inventory.  If they pulled each document out of those 15 boxes and wrote a description of each, then it could very well have taken 9 hours or so.

OTOH, you can plant a lot of evidence in 9 1/2 hours too.

[Kamaji]

The boxes were unopened.

Doesn't mean that they didn't close them back up before removing them from the premises.

[Hoodat]

They could have photocopied the contents of each box within minutes.  Which allowed them plenty of time to break into an empty safe, rummage through Trump's personal effects, and sniff around Melania's closet.  Again, if they knew in advance the identity and location of what they were seeking, they could have wrapped that up within 30 min.  Not only that, the warrant would have been limited to that specific area based on the sworn affidavit of said informant.

[roamer_1]

I, too, am loathe to attack State Sovereignty. However, the Constitution all States chose to go by, either at its adoption or gaining statehood says that the Legislatures of the Several States shall make election law. In many States that very election law was altered by persons other than the legislature. In that sense, the Compact was violated, the rules for making the rules were not the same as they should be (up to the various State Legislatures, not appointees or other elected officials).

@Smokin Joe

It is not determined what authority was given through law or precedent by that legislature to appointees or other elected officials... (in the case of Penn)

And who is to determine that? Why the state legislature, through their own means. Their own acquiescence is their verdict.

There is a difference. The Constitution was violated, incidentally, most often in the states that stopped counting, saw a mathematically impossible increase in Biden votes, and which carried the day in the electoral college for Biden, in each having him come from behind after counting was re-started. Other mechanisms of fraud have since been exposed, in those same states, made possible by unconstitutional rule changes regarding elections.

As we all have to suffer the effects of this election, we all have standing, and every state which cried foul should have had standing as well.

I believe the firewall set up by the founders around election law was absolute for a reason, and breaching that firewall will have unintended consequences.

The legislature has the only standing and in not exercising their duties it is left to the people of Penn to provide remedy.

And I will stand on that till I die, friend.

[catfish1957]

They could have photocopied the contents of each box within minutes.  Which allowed them plenty of time to break into an empty safe, rummage through Trump's personal effects, and sniff around Melania's closet.  Again, if they knew in advance the identity and location of what they were seeking, they could have wrapped that up within 30 min.  Not only that, the warrant would have been limited to that specific area based on the sworn affidavit of said informant.

I don't know about you, but those agents who were sniffing around FLOTUS' panties are going to have a hard time living down that part of their resume'   

[240B]

The boxes were unopened.

That's better. That's a good thing. Trump does not and did not pack those boxes. Staffers did. He received a broad general description of contents. Other than that, Trump himself, the person, has nothing to do with what is packed in them.

But that is assuming the FBI is interested in "law" or logic. Obviously they do not care about stupid 'legalities'. There mission is to arrest him for something/anything. And they will, no matter what they find or do not find in this illegal 'raid'.

The FBI is the Democrat's Gestapo. Their sole job has become to protect and fight for the Democrat Party. And no silly "law" is going to get in their way.

[roamer_1]

I don't know about the second part, but if it's true that they refused to provide the Warrant to Trump's legal representative then everything they took should be grounds for exclusion of the evidence.

Of course we know that'll never happen, because the FBI and DoJ have placed themselves above the law.

Unless what they were looking for has nothing to do with Chain of Evidence and more about retrieving something Tumpy was holding over someone else... 

[roamer_1]

In the case of Pennsylvania they weren't the sole arbiter though. Mark Elias and the AG for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania...who is running for Governor by the way...circumvented the state and federal constitution in this instance.

It is up to the Penn state legislature to hoe that row... and barring them, then the People of Penn must provide remedy. That's all there is.

[mystery-ak]

Melania better check her handbags and shoes when she gets back to make sure nothing is missing..some of her handbags cost over 30k...