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Subject: The FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home Mon Aug 08, 2022 8:49 pm
Former President Donald Trump said Monday that Mar-a-Lago, the Florida club where he lives, is "currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents."
Two sources confirmed to CBS News that the search was connected to White House records. Here's the latest.
Temple Regular Member
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Subject: Re: The FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home Mon Aug 08, 2022 10:43 pm
8-8-2022
Feds raid Mar-a-Lago:
Federal investigators have searched Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, including the contents of a safe, the former president said in a statement on Monday, the latest indication of an intensifying criminal investigation by the Justice Department into his affairs.
The FBI executed a search warrant Monday morning at Trump’s residence that came as part of an investigation into Trump’s potentially unlawful removal and destruction of White House records after his presidency, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
The move by the Justice Department to search Mar-a-Lago over the removal of 15 boxes of presidential records from the White House, including classified documents, as well as the destruction of other materials, marks a dramatic escalation in the inquiry.
“My beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents,” Trump said in a bitter statement on Monday evening, adding: “They even broke into my safe!”
Trump has previously come under scrutiny for his flagrant violations of the Presidential Records Act of 1978 – mandating the preservation of White House documents – but the search for the first time, appears to indicate potential legal jeopardy for Trump over his records practices.
The statute governing the willful and unlawful removal or destruction of presidential records, though rarely enforced, carries significant penalties including: fines, imprisonment and, most notably, disqualification from holding current or future office.
A spokesperson for the Justice Department declined to comment.
The former president was not at Mar-a-Lago at the time of the raid and was at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, one of the sources said. By the time Trump issued the statement, suggesting the raid was ongoing, the FBI had already left the property.
During his presidency, Mar-a-Lago was known as Trump’s “winter White House”. Trump and his wife, Melania, returned to the Florida resort after leaving Washington and since then, the president has made it the center of his political dealings.
The raid comes as Trump has been laying the foundations for another presidential run in 2024, and in the wake of a series of damning public hearings that laid out his and his allies’ roles in the events leading up to the Capitol attack last year.
In a furious statement, Trump compared the FBI raid to “Watergate” and sought to blame it on “Radical Left Democrats” who he said “desperately don’t want me to run for president in 2024 … who will do anything to stop Republicans and Conservatives in the upcoming midterms elections”.
The FBI is headed by Christopher Wray, who was appointed by Trump before he left office.
The Justice Department has been quietly examining the prospect of opening a criminal investigation into the matter of Trump’s removal of documents since at least April, according to a source with knowledge of the inquiry.
The records were eventually returned to Nara after negotiations with Trump’s lawyers – only for officials to then discover that the former president had taken with him some documents clearly marked as classified and sensitive for national security.
Also in the boxes: a letter left for Trump by his predecessor as president, Barack Obama, “love letters” from Kim Jong-un of North Korea, and a model of Air Force One with red-white-and-blue livery Trump chose but was scrapped by the Biden administration.
“Because Nara identified classified information in the boxes,” the chief archivist David Ferriero said in a letter to Congress at the time, “Nara staff has been in communication with the Department of Justice.”
The saga also prompted the House oversight committee, led by congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, to open a separate investigation that noted “removing or concealing government records is a criminal offense”. Trump must be held accountable, the New York Democrat said.
The news appeared set to inflame Trump supporters and add fuel to Republican claims that the former president is being unfairly targeted. A small group of Trump supporters were seen gathering outside Mar-a-Lago on Monday evening after the news broke, according to the Palm Beach post.
((((( bwaa the extremely classified boxes he took-- 1st president to do so..It's a big federal crime, sigh..
Grackle
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Subject: Re: The FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home Mon Aug 08, 2022 10:49 pm
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Subject: Re: The FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home Tue Aug 09, 2022 1:09 am
Tricky Dick Nixon, our last President to engage in widespread criminal behavior in office, resigned from office on August 8, 1974.
Today, as widely publicized, Trump's Mar-a-lame-o home was raided by the FBI.
oliver clotheshoffe Regular Member
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Subject: Re: The FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home Tue Aug 09, 2022 8:26 am
Some people just can't let go of hate.
Temple Regular Member
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Subject: Re: The FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home Tue Aug 09, 2022 5:14 pm
The search warrant issued for evidence at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club, after he refused to turn over classified documents.
The National Archives retrieved 15 boxes from Mar-a-Lago several months ago, and it was revealed on Monday that for the subsequent months, Trump has been negotiating with the FBI over the additional documents he refused to give back.
The Wise And Powerful Admin
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Subject: Re: The FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home Tue Aug 09, 2022 5:54 pm
FBI Releases First Photo from Mar-a-Lago Raid
oliver clotheshoffe Regular Member
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Subject: Re: The FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home Tue Aug 09, 2022 8:54 pm
What's with the picture of Bryan's safe?
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Subject: Re: The FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home Wed Aug 10, 2022 12:14 am
White House: Biden was ‘not aware’ of FBI raid at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Yahoo News, ALEXANDER NAZARYAN August 9, 2022, 1:56 PM
WASHINGTON—The White House refused on Tuesday to say much about Monday's Federal Bureau of Investigation search at Mar-a-Lago, the lavish South Florida resort where former President Donald Trump lives.
“No one at the White House was given a heads-up,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during a press briefing, adding that Biden was “not aware” of the dramatic move.
“The president and the White House learned about this FBI search from public reports. We learned just like the American public did yesterday, and we did not have advance notice of this activity,” Jean-Pierre said.
At an event at the White House earlier in the afternoon, a reporter shouted a question about the FBI search in Biden’s direction. The president did not respond.
The contents of the warrant used to execute the search remain unknown, but the target appears to be a trove of documents removed by Trump from the White House, according to multiple reports.
Throughout much of the summer, a House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, which was carried out by Trump’s supporters, has meticulously made the case that the former president was intimately involved in planning an attempt to stop certification of the previous November’s presidential election.
Trump and his supporters in the Republican Party and conservative media outlets have painted Monday’s development as a political ploy intended to frustrate Trump’s expected launch of a 2024 presidential campaign. Outlets like Fox News, which had been downplaying Trump’s role in the future of the Republican Party, quickly and furiously rose to his defense.
Democrats had been pushing Attorney General Merrick Garland to pursue a criminal investigation into Trump’s role on Jan. 6 more actively. The attorney general has not commented on what took place at Mar-a-Lago on Monday.
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Subject: Re: The FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home Wed Aug 10, 2022 4:16 pm
Subject: Re: The FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home Wed Aug 10, 2022 4:47 pm
BOOM!! SLAP!!! WHOA!!!
Grackle
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Subject: Re: The FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home Wed Aug 10, 2022 6:21 pm
I guess they've finally found a charge against him that might stick .. We, as lowly citizens will never know exactly what documents he took, why, or what they pertain to, as any of those questions can easily be dismissed as being "classified" ... No point in speculating about what he took or why.. I doubt we'll ever know.. The only good that might come from it is - the democrats' obsessive witch hunt might subside for now .. until the sequel to the Jan 6 show begins the 2nd season anyway
oliver clotheshoffe Regular Member
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Subject: Re: The FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home Wed Aug 10, 2022 7:11 pm
Grackle wrote:
the democrats' obsessive witch hunt might subside for now ..
Are you kidding? Subside? They're going to ramp it up by a power of ten. They're going to go after Trump's family and businesses next. They intend to destroy him and everything around him. Their hatred knows no bounds.
Once they're done with Trump they'll start going after Republican governors, congressmen, state senators, ANYONE with an (R) after their name. Then they start taking out civilians belonging to the Republican party. If you're a registered Republican they'll freeze with your bank account, they'll call your employer and get you fired, they'll contact your mortgage holder and have you thrown out in the street and then call their local street thugs to 'disappear' you.
DEMOCRATS ARE NAZIS. THEY INTEND TO KILL EVERYONE THAT DOES NOT AGREE WITH THEM. These are not sane people. These are not rational people. They would gladly kill billions if it meant control of the planet. They do not value human life.
Expect VERY bad things to happen soon if they aren't removed from power.
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Subject: Re: The FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home Wed Aug 10, 2022 7:17 pm
oliver clotheshoffe wrote:
Grackle wrote:
the democrats' obsessive witch hunt might subside for now ..
Are you kidding? Subside? They're going to ramp it up by a power of ten. They're going to go after Trump's family and businesses next. They intend to destroy him and everything around him. Their hatred knows no bounds.
Once they're done with Trump they'll start going after Republican governors, congressmen, state senators, ANYONE with an (R) after their name. Then they start taking out civilians belonging to the Republican party. If you're a registered Republican they'll freeze with your bank account, they'll call your employer and get you fired, they'll contact your mortgage holder and have you thrown out in the street and then call their local street thugs to 'disappear' you.
DEMOCRATS ARE NAZIS. THEY INTEND TO KILL EVERYONE THAT DOES NOT AGREE WITH THEM. These are not sane people. These are not rational people. They would gladly kill billions if it meant control of the planet. They do not value human life.
Expect VERY bad things to happen soon if they aren't removed from power.
Temple Regular Member
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Subject: Re: The FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home Wed Aug 10, 2022 8:37 pm
The democrats had nothing. nothing to do with the search warrant of trumps place.. That was an ongoing investigation by the FBI and DOJ.. Trump was ordered to turn over the remaining classified documents, he said no, he would not. And he did not.. So the FBI went to retrieve them.. Those classified files have nothing to do with the 1/6 hearings it is via DOJ FBI investigation into trump taking highly classified files being unlawfully (felony) taken from the Whitehouse.. Democrats are not involved with the search warrant.
oliver clotheshoffe Regular Member
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Subject: Re: The FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home Wed Aug 10, 2022 8:58 pm
Temple wrote:
The democrats had nothing. nothing to do with the search warrant of trumps place..
Say Temple would you be interested in some prime beachfront Arizona property? I can get you a really good deal on it
Grackle
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Subject: Re: The FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home Wed Aug 10, 2022 9:18 pm
Quote :
Are you kidding? Subside? They're going to ramp it up by a power of ten. They're going to go after Trump's family and businesses next. They intend to destroy him and everything around him. Their hatred knows no bounds.
Unfortunately you're probably right ..and if Temple is any indication of that ..ha...sheesh..Look at'im .. giddy as a school girl .. Posting shit about Trump's taxes now...again .. Six years they've carried on about that shit
Theyre gonna need some hard, valid evidence to condone raiding his home
I agree too about their agenda, only I'd expect them to be more subtle and expose their tyranny more gradually ..but it's not like they've tried to hide it to this point either .. I don't do TV and haven't really heard any reactions about the raid, but i can get that anywhere .. All this shit could easily backfire on them .. They're not as popular with the general public as they like to think.. If they continue to build this dictatorship they could face a *real* inserection .. I'm hoping the midterm elections will throw a stick in their spokes ..but who knows..I'm not impressed with anything republicans have done since this stooge took office either
Temple Regular Member
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Subject: Re: The FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home Wed Aug 10, 2022 9:45 pm
I will inform you___
1( there was No raid-- No raid__ The secret service and security at Mar a Lago were notified an hour before the FBI was to arrive. The secret service opened the door with the key for the FBI..
2( trumps lawyers were there and accompanied the FBI, along with some of the secret service, into the rooms etc.. It was calm and orderly all being video recorded.. No raid ..--
3( Fox and others are yelling to know what was in the subpoena. Why the FBI was there--- trump was given the subpoena and it's 100% his to do with as he wants.. he is free to post it/show the public anywhere he'd like to, he could give it to fox so they stop the insane conspiracies over it.. trump has not and will not publish it altho he can..
4( trump was given the full inventory list as to what was taken.. he can show that to the public if he wants to.. trump has not and will not publish it altho he can..
Also--trump taking highly confidential files out of the Whitehouse is a felony..
Grackle
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Subject: Re: The FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home Wed Aug 10, 2022 10:00 pm
Temple, who, in your mind, has demanded the documents? .. Do you think the FBI became concerned and took it upon themselves to raid Trump's home to get them? .. You think republicans demanded them? .. The American citizens? You can't be that ignorant .. You know damn well the democrats initiated the investigation along with a long list of other relentless investigations for six fukkin years now ... They're terrified of Trump. They're afraid he's gonna run for president again and could actually win and run their agenda off the rails like he did the first time..only a 2nd time he won't have to worry about getting reelected and clean house with a vengeance .. Trump in the white house again would be their worst nightmare.. That's why they're so desperately trying to take him outta the picture
Grackle
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Subject: Re: The FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home Wed Aug 10, 2022 10:52 pm
When over 30 armed FBI agents enter a residence and conduct a search it is a *RAID* .. HTH
A subpoena does not allow even one FBI or law enforcement agent to enter and/or search a residence .. Trump couldn't have been given a subpoena because he wasn't even in the same friggin state of the residence
It's possible that the *documents* were subpoenaed ..but not by democrats because they had nothing to do with any of it, right?
Word is that Trump's lawyers were not allowed to witness the search ..and what allowed over 30 FBI agents to enter and search his home was a *Warrant* ..not a subpoena .. The *warrant* is what inquiring minds wanna see ..and Trump could not have been given the warrant because he wasn't there. .. His lawyers were able to see the warrant but not allowed to take possession of it for their records and weren't given a copy .. So no, Trump doesn't have the warrant to show anyone..or not
Temple Regular Member
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Subject: Re: The FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home Wed Aug 10, 2022 11:10 pm
Grackle wrote:
Temple, who, in your mind, has demanded the documents? .. Do you think the FBI became concernYou think republicans demanded them? .. The American citizens? You can't be that ignorant ..
I will once again inform you-
It started with the__ ' National Security Agency..'.. If you are unaware of what that agency does- I suggest you google and learn. National Security Agency brought in the FBI and then the DOJ- All 3 wrote the investigated findings and evidence to submit to the federal judge to get the warrant to search..
oliver clotheshoffe Regular Member
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Subject: Re: The FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home Thu Aug 11, 2022 8:34 am
Temple's brainwashed, don't even bother discussing it with him.
Oh wait...
In order to be brainwashed he would first need to have a brain
oliver clotheshoffe Regular Member
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Subject: Re: The FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home Thu Aug 11, 2022 9:25 am
Grackle
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Subject: Re: The FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home Thu Aug 11, 2022 5:40 pm
Temple, it's stupid to edit my post when what i wrote is right there for everyone to see .. Don't quote it if you can't leave it as it was written
"Funny" how you can copy and paste 8-10 scrollers from your lefty rags but can't quote a small paragraph from me without bumbling around to edit it .. Jackass
Temple Regular Member
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Subject: Re: The FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home Thu Aug 11, 2022 5:47 pm
Grackle wrote:
Temple, it's stupid to edit my post when what i wrote is right there for everyone to see .. Don't quote it if you can't leave it as it was written
Sorry-- you are stupidly wrong.. I have never changed a person's words, ever.. You best check yourself..
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Subject: Re: The FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home