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2022-08-08 Government Corruption
Trump, DOJ confirm FBI has raided Mar-A-Lago
[FoxNews] A source familiar told Fox News that the raid occurred early this morning. The source said agents brought a "safe cracker" and cracked a "relatively new" safe in Mar-a-Lago. The source told Fox News there was "nothing in it."
*snicker*
Multiple sources tell Fox News the FBI
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
's raid of Mar-a-Lago is related to the materials Trump allegedly brought to his private residence after his presidency concluded. That matter was referred to the Justice Department by the National Archives and Records Administration, which said it found classified material in 15 boxes at the residence.

Federal law bars the removal of classified documents to unauthorized locations, though it is possible that Trump could try to argue that, as president, he was the ultimate declassification authority.

A source familiar told Fox News that FBI agents went to Mar-a-Lago and looked in every single office, safe, and grabbed documents and boxes without going through them on the property. They took boxes and documents to go through them later.

"They were not being judicious about what they took," the source told Fox News.
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, one of many criticizing the raid, called it "an unprecedented political weaponization of the Justice Department."

"They've been after President Trump as a candidate, as President, and now as a former President," Noem tweeted. "Using the criminal justice system in this manner is un-American."

Trump was in New York City when the raid was carried out and is now headed to Bedminster, Fox News has learned. An FBI source confirmed that FBI agents from Washington, D.C. who are on the bureau's Evidence Response Team conducted the raid and notified the Miami Field Office just before.

Per standard protocol, FBI Director Wray and Attorney General Garland were aware of the raid even if shortly before and would have been fully briefed.

A White House official told Fox News it did not have any notice of the reported action and referred all additional questions to the DOJ.

A separate investigation into efforts by Trump allies to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol has intensified in Washington in recent weeks, particularly with the January 6 congressional committee holding hearings to reveal its findings.

Per sources familiar with the matter, the FBI raid is related to the alleged taking of potential classified information upon leaving Washington on January 2021 — not the January 6th investigation.

Posted by Chantry 2022-08-08 19:30|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ]  Top

#1 I thought this important enough to advance to this evening and set as the day’s headline — we’ll roll it over for tomorrow to continue the discussion as details roll in.

Thank you for being on top of this for us, Chantry!
Posted by trailing wife 2022-08-08 19:54||   2022-08-08 19:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Trump, DOJ confirm FBI has raided Mar-A-Lago

This would require Biden‘s approval.
Posted by Sloluse Slutle9788 2022-08-08 20:11||   2022-08-08 20:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Turley on Fox just indicated they were looking for "documents" and removed 15 boxes of them. Trump indicated they opened his safe. This is a fishing expedition using a Corrupt DC Federal Judge to grant so wide-reaching a warrant. The undoubted intent is to try and find some basis for a crime that allows for prosecution of a federal criminal statute. Once that charge is made, Trump can be slow-rolled if they can't convict, to bar him from the 2024 election.

The Magic Kenyan and the Oligarchs have opened a level of political warfare that may well lead to national disaster. Now the entire campaign to create the "threat" from the right makes it clear they needed a meme for the suppressive acts that are coming from this.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-08-08 20:12||   2022-08-08 20:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Not just a raid on the President but they're trying to bait us into doing something.
Posted by 746 2022-08-08 20:31||   2022-08-08 20:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Looking for evidence or planting evidence?

And who provided the information for the warrant? And what judge approved?
Posted by Airandee 2022-08-08 20:33||   2022-08-08 20:33|| Front Page Top

#6 

The FDC Swamp Coup/Junta knows if True Law and Order is restored, they will be on trial for Treason and Subversion and likely swing for it.

So they can't let Trump run with the NEW Voter ID and Ballot Control laws passed in many states that will keep them from a redo of the 2020 election Steal.
Posted by Uninegum Omereck2605 2022-08-08 20:56||   2022-08-08 20:56|| Front Page Top

#7 This would require Biden‘s approval.

He can't find his own ass. My guess is Obama.
Posted by Woodrow 2022-08-08 20:58||   2022-08-08 20:58|| Front Page Top

#8 I would like to think Barack Obama is not that stupid. The intersecting committees that are actually making competing decisions behind the scenes, though — they I can believe would be precisely that stupid.

I imagine President Trump’s attorneys have been making calls to various Supreme Court justices preparatory to calling on their offices as soon as they open for business tomorrow morning.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-08-08 21:18||   2022-08-08 21:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Thanks also to 3dc for supply the image of President Trump’s statement, which apparently was trickier than it appears.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-08-08 21:23||   2022-08-08 21:23|| Front Page Top

#10 Comment self deleted. I just can't be less than amazingly angry at this.
Posted by Silentbrick 2022-08-08 21:24||   2022-08-08 21:24|| Front Page Top

#11 This is all about getting Trump off the ballot. Cool, 'cause then we get DeSantis. Still, we're gonna have to shoot our way out of this folks. The Dems have shown their hand.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-08-08 21:28||   2022-08-08 21:28|| Front Page Top

#12 The plan, and it is a plan, is fully in play. Something will be found (or planted) in the boxes. Yes, the boxes that Trump did NOT pack. These SOB's will not rest until The Orange Man is no more.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-08-08 22:14||   2022-08-08 22:14|| Front Page Top

#13 And the boxes will go directly to the DNC Headquarters to be 'processed' before they (with additions) go to the DOJ / Jan 6 starchamber.

And the media will cheer!
Posted by CrazyFool 2022-08-08 22:50||   2022-08-08 22:50|| Front Page Top

#14 Reportedly the Biden FBI fiqured incriminating stuff would be locked up in the safe.

Problem is when the safe was opened it was empty.
Posted by Sloluse Slutle9788 2022-08-08 22:54||   2022-08-08 22:54|| Front Page Top

#15 All along he said it wasn't about him, is was about us...they want to provoke a fight.

cant take the bait...
Posted by 746 2022-08-08 23:40||   2022-08-08 23:40|| Front Page Top

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