Kyle Becker
@kylenabeckerRemember That Infamous Photo from the Trump Mar-a-Lago Raid? The FBI Staged It
It was a photo that instantly became one of the most infamous in presidential campaign history: The FBI's snapshot of "Top Secret" documents seized in its unprecedented raid on former President Donald Trump's office at Mar-a-Lago.
The Mar-a-Lago classified documents photo instantly became a media sensation and kicked off a wave of political prosecutions of the former president.
Special Counsel Jack Smith, who has become the tip of the spear for the Biden administration's election interference campaign against Biden's rival, finally admitted in a filing before Judge Aileen Cannon that the photo was effectively staged.
Justice reporter @julie_kelly2, in a lengthy thread, explained how the so-called Department of Justice staged the photo to effectively be a campaign ad against the former president.
"Remember the photo of 'classified docs' strewn on the floor with scary looking cover sheets to depict the classification level of various papers?" Kelly asked. "It appears those cover sheets, or slip sheets, were produced and used by the FBI after the raid."
Kelly deduced that those cover sheets are not the standard for such classified documents for a president's usage.
"The cover sheets do not represent the format in which the records were found--an intentional misrepresentation in the court docket for special master lawsuit and by the media," Kelly remarked.
"Jack Smith finally admitted yesterday the FBI used those sheets as placeholders (I mean, you can't really say 'props' to help stage a 'stunt') in his filing last night. Then laughably claimed FBI found so many classified records they ran out of stunt covers/slip sheets," she added.
This is the critical admission in the court filing:
If a box did not contain potentially privileged documents, the filter team provided the box to the investigative team for on-site review, and if the investigative team found a document with classification markings, it removed the document, segregated it, and replaced it with a placeholder sheet.
"The investigative team used classified cover sheets for that purpose, until the FBI ran out because there were so many classified documents, at which point the team began using blank sheets with handwritten notes indicating the classification level of the document(s) seized."
4:27 PM · May 4, 2024
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