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FBI Sought Documents Trump Hoarded for Years, Including about Russiagate
By William M. Arkin On 8/17/22 at 5:00 AM EDT

The FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago last Monday was specifically intended to recover Donald Trump's personal "stash" of hidden documents, two high-level U.S. intelligence officials tell Newsweek.

To justify the unprecedented raid on a former president's residence and protect the source who revealed the existence of Trump's private hoard, agents went into Trump's residence on the pretext that they were seeking all government documents, says one official who has been involved in the investigation. But the true target was this private stash, which Justice Department officials feared Donald Trump might weaponize.

"They collected everything that rightfully belonged to the U.S. government but the true target was these documents that Trump had been collecting since early in his administration," says the source, who was granted anonymity to discuss sensitive issues.

The sought-after documents deal with a variety of intelligence matters of interest to the former president, the officials suggest—including material that Trump apparently thought would exonerate him of any claims of Russian collusion in 2016 or any other election-related charges.

When Trump left the White House in January 2021, many of the normal processes of transition were not followed, especially because the president would not admit that he had lost the election or that he would be leaving office. As a result, we now know, some 42 boxes of documents were shipped to Mar-a-Lago by mistake: officials papers under U.S. law, which the National Archives is supposed to take custody of and catalog.

Over the past 18 months, the Trump camp and the Archives were engaged in a back-and-forth which resulted in the return of 15 boxes (and some additional documents). As late as June 3, when officials from the FBI and Justice visited Mar-a-Lago to serve a Grand Jury subpoena for specific documents, these negotiations were largely cordial.

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"Hoarded"?   888mouth

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Well, then I guess Obama must have quadruple “hoarded” his “stash” when he left the White House with a caravan of boxed documents. Editorializing in the guise of a news story? Easy peasy.

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So it's an open-ended affidavit just grab every/anything you can find....we'll find a crime.
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So it's an open-ended affidavit just grab every/anything you can find....we'll find a crime.

The wife had Hannity on tonight while I was on the exercise machine. He had Mark Levin on and Mark flat out said that the warrant was unconstitutional and explained why.  You've heard it all before right here.
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