Posted on 08/10/2022 9:47:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Update (1700ET): According to Newsweek, the FBI had a 'confidential human source' (a mole) inside Mar-a-Lago, who was "able to identify what classified documents former President Trump was still hiding and even the location of those documents."
đ The FBI is AGAIN sending undercover informants to target President Trump?
Itâs the Crossfire Hurricane debacle, all over again.
This time, likely, at the behest of the Attorney General.
https://t.co/f8FXr74qer â Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 10, 2022
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The Trumps have revealed more about Monday's FBI raid of their Mar-a-Lago property.
For starters, Eric Trump told the Daily Mail that "the 30 agents who arrived at the property asked staff to turn security cameras off â and to kick their lawyer off the property, but they refused."
"They told our lawyer⌠you have to leave the property right now. Turn off all security cameras."
Eric also said "They would not give her the search warrant," adding "So they showed it to her from about 10 feet away. They would not give her a copy of the search warrant."
He also said that the FBI brought safe crackers in to break into his father's safe, and that agents rummaged through Melania Trump's wardrobe.
"It's all a coordinated attack with the FBI," said the former president's son, insisting that President Biden approved the raid.
"Do you think that the FBI director is going to raid the former president's house, especially a house as you know, kind of world renowned as Mar Lago is in a place as public as Mar Lago is without getting the approval of President [Biden]?"
By not turning off the security cameras, Eric said they saw the FBI raiding areas of the property that they 'shouldn't have been.'
Donald Trump lamented Wednesday that the FBI blocked his lawyers from the property during the raid at his Palm Beach, Florida residence and suggested that agents may have 'planted' evidence. -Daily Mail
Donald Trump, meanwhile, suggested in a Wednesday post to his Truth Social page that the FBI may have planted evidence.
"The FBI and others from the Federal Government would not let anyone, including my lawyers, be anywhere near the areas that were rummaged and otherwise looked at during the raid on Mar-a-Lago," he wrote. "Everyone was asked to leave the premises, they wanted to be left alone, without any witnesses to see what they were doing, taking or, hopefully not, 'planting,'" he added.
As the Epoch Times notes, About two dozen FBI agents entered the Trump-owned resort at 9 a.m. Monday and left with âa handful of boxes of documents,â Trump spokeswoman Christina Bobb told The Epoch Times on Tuesday. âI didnât actually get to oversee the search, they wouldnât let anybody see what they were doing,â she said, adding that she was present when the FBI entered the premises.
FBI agents were looking for âwhat they deemed to be presidential records,â Bobb continued. âI donât think there was anything of substance.â
Bruce Reinhart, a Florida federal magistrate judge, signed off on a warrant to search the former presidentâs Florida property.
Reinhart worked as a federal prosecutor until 2008 when he became a defense attorney representing employees of convicted sex trafficker and wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein. Employees included Epsteinâs pilots, a scheduler, and others
The Mar-a-Lago raid warrant was issued on Aug. 5, a day after FBI Director Christopher Wray testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee and was asked about whistleblower reports on whether his agency was becoming increasingly politicized. Wray had to cut the questioning short because he needed to travel, although flight records indicated that he used an FBI jet to travel to a vacation retreat in Upstate New York, according to the New York Post.
In mid-January, the National Archives and Records Administration arranged for the transport from Mar-a-Lago to the National Archives 15 boxes that the archives said contained presidential records. Under the Presidential Records Act, the records should have been transferred in January 2021 as Trump left office, and some of the boxes contained classified information, the institution said in a statement at the time.
Agents initially resisted showing Bobb the warrant but ultimately did. But the agents would not allow any representatives of the former president to oversee the search, Bobb said. The justification for the search also remains under seal. Trumpâs legal team plans on asking the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to unseal the search warrant affidavit, which would outline why authorities asked for the warrant.
The Epoch Times contacted the FBI for comment. Neither the bureau nor Attorney General Merrick Garland have offered public comments about the raid, drawing even questions and condemnation from Democrat politicians.
The Department of Justice âmust immediately explain the reason for its raid & it must be more than a search for inconsequential archives or it will be viewed as a political tactic and undermine any future credible investigation & legitimacy of January 6 investigations,â wrote former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a longtime critic of Trump, said on Twitter Tuesday.
âDOJ must disclose the bona fide nature of the August 8 action or else the republicans will use it to Discredit the Jan 6 investigation, which would be a terrible disservice to the good work of the house committee in exposing The Trump administration violations,â the former Democrat governor of New York added. Cuomo last year resigned amid allegations he engaged in misconduct with staffers, which Cuomo has categorically denied.
And Republicans similarly said they were concerned with the raid.
âLast nightâs raid on the home of a former U.S. president without explanation will only further erode confidence in the FBI and the Justice Department,â Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote Tuesday in reference to the Monday search.
âI reiterated these concerns to Director Wray today,â he continued. âIf the FBI isnât extraordinarily transparent about its justification for yesterdayâs actions and committed to rooting out political bias that has infected their most sensitive investigations, they will have sealed their own fate. The FBIâs mission and the many patriotic agents who work hard to carry it out will be forever overshadowed by the distrust the bureau has sown.â
If you know any FBI agents or employees, shun them. avoid them. don’t talk to them. Don’t befriend them or their families in your neighborhood. They are not friends to you, or America.
I see no other way an average, common person can have any influence on this organization.
Most CIs are completely different from often righteous ‘ whistleblowers’
CIs are usually pondscum lowlifes who have some beef with the law , and which the law uses to try and nail someone e else they want more.
These spineless CI creeps rely on by concealed and hidden , even from grand juries, and they know their perfidy will never be revealed as coming from them.
CIs are the cause of many deaths at the hands of law enforcement , who rely on their info , often complete fabrications, and end up.killing innocent person which the CI has implicated , whi rightfully resist predawn, no-knock , heavily armed raids upon their homes.
I’m not sure if such backstabbing VIs are even identified to the compliant, boiler plate warrant, tool.judges ,whonare or hey final element to th er illicit, unconstitutional searches launched by corrupt ‘law enforcement’. Tell me if I have gotten anything wrong with this description.
If they “knew” what & where, why did it take them 10 HOURS of rummaging to carry out a 10 minute job?
I do not believe anything the FBI, AG, State Dept., White House, Peelosi, Schumer, McConnel, Secret Service, CIA, Capitol Police or the K-9 Service says. I also do not believe anything in the FAKE News to include FOX. They are all in on the crime, the treasonous acts against THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!!! If we do not defeat the current Tyrannical Government in November 2022 and 2024, there will be no US Constitution for us.
I hope to have good health to live long enough to see daisy’s, weeds and other flowers growing in the cracks of deserted streets and sidewalks throughout a emptied city where DC once stood! It is no longer needed, none of the departments are needed by the states. it can not be saved as it is too corrupted and too far wasted to serve any function in a proud FREEDOM loving society that believes in equal justice for all! It can never be trusted again! The only department needed is a Border control and defense department that can operate out of the former pentagon and would be funded and manned by the states - no other Federal level funding would the needed! No Federal taxes would be paid either! The Free Republic of Independent States of the Continent will forever survive!
How did an FBI agent know ANYTHING about what is inside Trumpâs home? Unless he was tipped off by a Trump Secret Service agent.
Mark Meadows
I’ll take FAKE NEWS for $200, Alex.
Past time to end this corrupt organization
RE: Iâll take FAKE NEWS for $200, Alex.
What is the fake news? That there was really no FBI Mole?
First order of business for Team Trump:
THROW OUT ALL FOOD ITEMS AND BILL THE FIB FOR IT. They probably spiked certain food items Trump likes with deadly Toxins, fentanyl, etc..
I feel bad for Melania, too. VIOLATING a woman's closet is a big no-no. The HATERS of the FIB have NO conscience.
FBI Director Wray to agents:
“Hey, don’t do anything Chairman Mao or Joseph Stalin wouldn’t do. Go get ‘em.”
....who have direct knowledge....
I have direct knowledge that America is in grave danger from the loss of liberty and privacy along with the breakdown of equal justice for all that the Dems have brought us.
Direct knowledge.
Didn't you ever have auto repair, roofing, an addition to your house or other work done? If they get paid by the hour they somehow take a whole lot longer time to get it all done.
Plus the "going through Melania's clothing" (especially the lingerie drawers) must have slowed down the agents.
BTTT
Half the country doesnât either.
The president has the authority to declassify any document.
The feds visited Mar-A-Lago in June and were shown the safes and the papers in a cordial meeting.
President Trump appeared and said hello to them.
This raid was a big FU to patriots by their federal overlords.
The FBI could have bribed a member of Trumpâs staff to go on record and make statement about certain hidden documents. Not with knowledge, mind you, but to just make a statement that was later going to be proved âinaccurateâ. But by then the FBI would have got what they wanted. This was just like the Steele Dossier. Use a phony document or an unverifiable statement to get a surveillance or search warrant and use the warrant to go looking for anything they could find. Itâs the FBIâs standard M.O.
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