FBI even searched Melania's wardrobe in Trump raid
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Via: vic-eldred • 3 years ago • 251 commentsBy: Miranda Devine (New York Post)
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FBI agents scoured Melania Trump's wardrobe and spent several hours combing through Donald Trump's private office, breaking open his safe and rifling through drawers when they raided the former First Family's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida Monday morning.
The Post has learned that the search warrant used by the FBI to enter the palatial Palm Beach property focused solely on presidential records and evidence of classified information being stored there.
A source close to the former president expressed concern that FBI agents or DOJ lawyers conducting the search could have "planted stuff" because they would not allow Trump's attorneys inside the 128-room building to observe the operation, which lasted more than nine hours.
The raid by over 30 plain clothes agents from the Southern District of Florida and the FBI's Washington Field Office extended through the Trump family's entire 3,000-square-foot private quarters, as well as to a separate office and safe, and a locked basement storage room in which 15 cardboard boxes of material from the White House were stored.
Feds arrived at 9 a.m. and didn't leave until 6:30 p.m.
An eyewitness to the raid said all of the boxes were confiscated by federal agents Monday, but it is unknown if anything else was taken as no itemized list of items was provided by the FBI.
The boxes contain documents and mementos from Trump's presidency, reportedly including letters from Barack Obama and Kim Jong Un, and other correspondence with world leaders.
A legal source said that the boxes had been packed up by the General Services Administration and shipped to Mar-a-Lago when Trump left office in January 2020.
Trump's attorneys, led by Evan Corcoran, had been cooperating fully with federal authorities on the return of the documents to the National Archives and Records Administration, according to sources.
In May, Corcoran granted access into Mar-a-Lago's windowless storage room to FBI agents who spent several hours searching through the boxes. Trump stopped by the basement to say hello at one point, says someone who was there.
The Trump family since has decamped for the summer to his golf estate in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Mar-a-Lago is closed for the season and only a skeleton staff, including groundskeepers, were present during Monday's raid.
Access to the 20-acre private country club is believed to have been granted by heavily armed US Secret Service (USSS) agents stationed at the front gates and toting M4 carbines. Lawyers for the former president, who were caught off guard by the raid, arrived an hour later.
The FBI would not have executed a warrant without notifying the Secret Service first, according to a retired high ranking USSS agent.
"USSS legal counsel probably would've directed [them] to see copy of warrant and then step back."
Once inside the air-conditioned, white marble-clad private quarters, agents fanned out to search every room, while shocked staff were instructed by Trump's lawyers to unlock doors and provide the FBI access to every room, including the sumptuous Versailles Master Bedroom, renovated by Melania two years ago.
Another group of agents, including a professional safe cracker, moved to a separate part of the enormous 1924 Spanish stucco building to search Trump's office and safe.
The demeanor of the three DOJ lawyers who accompanied the FBI was described by one eyewitness as "arrogant," and they repeatedly told Trump representatives: "We have full access to everything. We can go everywhere."
Despite the sweltering 91 degrees temperature Monday, Trump's lawyers were forbidden by the feds to shelter inside the cool lobby, or to observe the search in any way, but were left outside in the baking sun near a parking lot.
The feds instructed Trump's representatives to switch off the security cameras but they refused.
Trump has ripped the raid of Mar-a-Lago as a political ploy.
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In the recent past when we had a dispute of Presidential papers, Barak Obama simply said I'm not going to turn them over. $30 million was spent via the FOI to learn why. George W also said I'm not going to turn them over, and and in both cases it was adjudicated. Now in the case of Trump there isn't even a subpoena. The weaponized FBI raids his home while he is away and they still haven't told us what they were looking for.
The difference between those who are exempt and those who are targeted depends on their ideology.
We are living under a far left totalitarian regime.
Has Orban opened the doors for those who want to move to a more acceptable political environment?
The new bogeyman for authoritarians everywhere.
not until the supply chain issues have been resolved in the distribution of SS uniforms.
Oh dear, does Soros have competition?
gee, I wonder which one of trump's criminal investigations got the search warrant.
Evidently, you can't respond to Post 1.
The rest of this thread has been removed for taunting and no value.
Donald and his lawyers know. I guess they are too busy grifting donations to release the info.
Why would they seal the reason for the raid?
Judge Bruce Reinhardt is the judge who approved the warrant. The big question is why?
For those who really want to know:
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/mitch-mcconnell-demands-answers-justice-department-trump-raid?utm_source=sf&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=twjs
Your link did not answer that question.
Because we don't have an answer. Nothing but silence.
How would you know? You frequently admit to not reading.
“Nothing but silence.”
Funny this.
As opposed to nothing but noise.
The FBI still has a serious credibility problem. They need to tell the American public why they did this.
They are playing with fire.
Not letting any of Trump's lawyers observe the search is not helping either. Wonder what the FBI was doing that they couldn't let anyone observe?
Here is the strange thing. The FBI claims they told Trump why they did this, yet Trump's lawyers are seeking an inventory of what was taken plus a copy of the Search Warrant application. That means somebody is lying!
Another Questionable Source? smh
“The weaponized FBI…”
Ha…J.Edgar I could see raiding Melania’s closet.
Somehow the word overboard just seems to more than match the DOJ and FBI's actions.
That's the dangerous game they are playing
Yep it is.
Try reading the news!
Well, your tag team partners frequently do the same with yours, so what's your point?
You know they don't have a point. All the do is blather on and on with fiction and unfounded exclamations in the hopes of distracting everybody from the actual problems.
Were they subpoenaed?
Why bother? He ignored subpoenas throughout his Administration and advised others to ignore
lawful subpoenas over and over again.
All colorful language aside, the search was conducted with Trump's attorney's coordination and the FBI rarely discusses ongoing investigations or publishes subpoenas.
So was your first paragraph a falsehood or are you saying George W was a Democrat?
You are wrong once again. Sad.
That's illegal! Why isn't Trump in jail for ignoring subpoenas? Please provide evidence that Trump failed to comply with subpoenas to the AG so he can arrest Trump straight away!
Hahaha
Now they might have planted stuff....
OMG....So that is going to be his spin...
Yep. This is going to be their spin.
We don't need spin. All we needed was for the left to act like the left.
So yes, you all are going to just make up conspiracy theories for donald.
“…All we needed…”
Define ‘we’, vic.
Guessing ‘wee’ is more appropriate.
Thank you all.
Now we just sit back and wait for November.
We being all the American citizens who are not far left radicals.
“…and wait for November.”
When the short-sighted gains possibly made in an off year election are where one hangs his hat says all one need to know.
Please tell us how we can be better, for no one can be satisfied with current trends. That being said, an answer may be frightening in its implications.
So you and jim. Carry on.
The answer is obvious.
Jim and I and most of America.
nah. Most of America is against your far right dictatorial schemes.
You need an argument. Perhaps you might want to read the article that Miranda Devine worked so hard on..
It's the first one that really gives us details of the FBI raid.
I suspect we will hear all about those schemes next year. If the Republicans take the House (which is fully expected to happen) I would expect many committees being formed to investigate several parts of this administration and I would expect a very deep dive into the FBI and the DOJ .
Yes, well the "we" coin has 2 sides that mirror each other.
One side says "In God We Trust."
On no side does it say "In We God Trusts."
Don't you have an American Quarter?
Miranda Divine, ha. She couldn't tell the truth if it was written on her eyeballs.
What is this thing you have with her, it's almost like stalking.
I need an argument? Not with you around because your arguments are so funny and fun to pick holes in, for a little bit anyway, then they always return to "authoritarian leftist regime" territory and I know that it is time for at least one of us to take our meds.
I'm stocking up on the popcorn already!
You must be thinking of Canadian coins.
Big fucking deal.
We are living in an authoritarian state with a fringe group controlling the media and the federal government.
That is a big deal
Why are you protecting the most disgraced president in American history?
You have no idea?
I'm protecting the rights every American is supposed to be entitled to. That is what distinguishes the US from all the authoritarian regimes around the world. They also have "Bills of Rights." They simply ignore them, just like our very own FBI.
Hillary was above the law when the FBI allowed & gave immunity to the one who destroyed subpoenaed documents.
James Comey was above the law when he took documents that belonged to the FBI.
Eric Holder was above the law when he refused to provide "Fast & Furious" subpoenaed documents.
Evidently the law depends on one's ideology
Why would Donald Trump be immune to a house search pursuant to a warrant? Because you want him to be?
That's not normal procedure. Why are you ignoring procedure? Because the end justifies the means?
Welcome to Fantasy Island! here, Vic can say anything he wants and the bobble heads will follow, not because it is true, ... Just because. He took lessons from Thump, Don't Chaknow.
Prove that the rule of law has been suspended in America.
Prove that There is "a fringe group controlling the media and the federal government"
You can't because it just is not true. Yet you come on here and say it repeatedly, and you know it is not true. That is called lying.
I have. Hillary Clinton had someone destroy subpoenaed information. That person was given immunity by the FBI.
Only one example. There are a multitude of examples. One needs to accept the truth. Some prefer not to.
“..,Hillary Clinton..,”
Passed time to give up the ghost.
It doesn't work that way. The FBI can never remove that stain.
Hilarious from someone who constantly squawks "I don't answer to you".
Maybe he just wants to take your example.
The Dems have lost all hope of keeping the House and Senate. The leftist's glee will be short lived. The "Revenge Of The MAGA" is coming!
The Dems will lose the House and everyone knows it. Currently polling (it could change) show the Dems picking up seats in the Senate.
Not after this unprecedented and unnecessary abuse of power witch hunt. Did the FBI miss something in May?
I suspect their search will come up empty
"In May, Corcoran granted access into Mar-a-Lago's windowless storage room to FBI agents who spent several hours searching through the boxes. Trump stopped by the basement to say hello at one point, says someone who was there."
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2022/08/10/cuomo-response-to-fbi-raid-n2611524?utm_campaign=rightrailsticky1
Yes. It was unprecedented.
Neither you nor I know what they were looking for. Trump has a copy of the warrant and could release that information if he thinks it was so unnecessary.
This is what we know. A grand jury was opened in May in connection to a probe on misappropriated classified documents. Some involving national security. Documents weren't returned until criminal action was threatened. Investigators reported in June they found more classified documents being stored improperly there. Yesterday the FBI executed a warrant that was signed off on at every level of the FBI and DoJ and brought before a judge.
IF the FBI & DoJ have mishandled this case then they should be held accountable - all the way up that chain of command that signed off on the raid.
IF Trump OR people around Trump have mishandled national security documents (or worse) then they should likewise be held accountable.
Until we get credible reports of the what, where, when and how you are pissing in the wind. I'll wait to pass judgment and then pass them on the appropriate people.
I kinda laugh at unprecedented. If they raided my house I could call it unprecedented...Haha
The probable cause for the warrant is sealed. Trump does not have a copy of the probable cause and at this point has no idea why the warrant was issued. So it is up to the state to disclose the probable cause. A warrant will not disclose the reason for the raid just the permission and scope.
Good idea.
True, but he could release at least that much and we will get to the rest of it in due time. With the amount of pressure on this it won't take long.
No matter what the number of active investigations against an ex-President, an FBI search of an ex-President's home and violent sycophantic populist movement behind him will make the history books.
Why? What do you think it will reveal?
political kabuki theater , i will wait until the poll that counts in nov to see what happens .
until then , its anyones guess.
“…an FBI search of an ex-President's home…”
…close quote…
This is starting to smell like a set up.
A legal source said that the boxes had been packed up by the General Services Administration and shipped to Mar-a-Lago when Trump left office in January 2020.
So the GSA was good with this, since they were the one's who approved as to what got packed up. So then why this:
In May, Corcoran granted access into Mar-a-Lago's windowless storage room to FBI agents who spent several hours searching through the boxes. Trump stopped by the basement to say hello at one point, says someone who was there.
The FBI already went through these boxes. I'm thinking the GSA packed away another "insurance policy" and there wasn't enough time for the FBI to find it in May so they decided to be sure of finding it this time, they just take it all and search to their hearts content.
Everything smells like a setup to the right. They are a bunch of disturbed conspiracy nuts.
The FBI will find something, so the question is how did it get there? Trump didn't do the packing the GSA did. The FBI is so sure that there is something in these documents that they had to conduct a raid to get them all, I don't believe that they just have a hunch, they were told by someone that it is there, perhaps someone in the GSA.
So now you are going to say it is a secret plot to trap him....
SMH....
oh oh it's FLUSHGATE!!!!!