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FBI Agents Were Looking for Classified Records, Took Boxes of Documents From Trump Resort: Lawyer

“We had been very cooperative with them before. And it’s unclear to me why they went to such drastic measures to do this. But they did. And as far as the probable cause goes, they wouldn’t give that to us,” she added.

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, the institution said in a statement at the time. The administration did not return an inquiry on Tuesday.

Approximately two dozen FBI agents arrived around 9 a.m. on Monday morning and remained at Mar-a-Lago, which is in West Palm Beach, for about 10 hours.

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. Trump’s 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.

“We don’t know what the probable cause is. I don’t think there is a good cause to do such a drastic thing. But they did,” Bobb said. ...

Agents kept Mar-a-Lago neat while they were searching for documents, with one even picking up trash, according to Bobb. The agents “took a handful of boxes of documents,” she said.

“I don’t think that there was anything incriminating. I don’t think there was anything of substance. So I’m sure that they will say otherwise. But we’ll have to wait and see what they come up with, but it was all paper. I hear the conspiracy theories and the rumors that there were other artifacts or something taken—it was all paper,” she said.

Agents previously visited the resort in June, and were given access to a storage facility there, according to Bobb. “Nothing had been hidden and nothing had been kept secret from them, which makes this all more all the more ridiculous,” she said.

“Donald Trump didn’t commit a crime,” Bobb said, adding that prosecutors would not be able to show that Donald Trump knew about the boxes the FBI took.

“They would have to lay the foundation that Donald Trump actually packed up his own office, and Donald Trump was actually the custodian of these records, and that he actually moved them,” she said.

If the DOJ decides to press charges against Trump, then the effort would not get very far, she predicted.

“I just don’t see it making a bit of difference. I think President Trump is going to most likely run for reelection,” she said. “I can’t wait until he does. And he will be the next President of the United States.”

They brought a search warrant signed by Judge Bruce E. Reinhardt, who is himself not without a Palm Beach connection. Prior to his judicial appointment, Reinhardt served as a defense attorney for criminally charged employees of Jeffrey Epstein, a former Palm Beach resident. Reinhardt’s contact information has been removed from the Southern District of Florida’s judicial website, but research by the Daily Wire reveals that he openly disparaged Trump during his presidency and contributed to Barack Obama and other Democrats.

Ostensibly looking for official documents that Trump failed to transfer to the National Archives at the end of his presidency, the FBI agents reportedly searched Melania Trump’s wardrobe, cracked Trump’s private safe, seized documents that were unrelated to their warrant, and refused to allow their nine-hour operation to be observed by Trump’s attorneys, who were not allowed to remain inside the house on a day when temperatures exceeded 90 degrees. ...

The raid on Mar-a-Lago is an outrageous abuse of power, making America look like what Trump’s putative 2024 rival Florida Governor Ron DeSantis called a “banana Republic” in response. But the former president can look forward to a discreet warm welcome when he returns later this year, likely with some encouraging news about his future plans.

Welcome to the Third World
The FBI really better have something "pulverizing" on Trump, because otherwise we've just witnessed one of the dumbest moves in the history of politics

https://t.me/WeTheMedia/73029

In the most incredible of ironies, it was Trump himself, now targeted for destruction by the bureaucrats he sought to control, who enabled this in the dreadful year of 2020. Realizing but never admitting his error, he flipped in the other direction late in the season, arguing for openness and normalcy. But it was too late. He already lost control, as Deborah Birx’s book makes clear. The deep state that he had loathed needed to prove its hegemony. This raid on his own home underscores the point.

You really do wonder what makes them do the 'dumber than dumb' arrogant shit.

Ain't this the TRUTH...persons raiding Trump just nominated him for President

El Salvador's president calls the US a banana republic.

El Salvador's president

Misc says

El Salvador's president

converted his country's currency from US dollars to Bitcoin. Before Bitcoin crashed.

El Salvador's president calls the US a banana republic

Misc says

El Salvador's president calls the US a banana republic

It's because we ARE and it takes one to know one. But the history of all that is our US corporations fucking shit up down there. It was US that turned those countries into banana republics and now it's home to roost.

bitcorn are legal currency there now.

removing the mafia payments poor people pay just making food and trying to scratch out a living.

Do you mean taxes?

Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
Aug 9
This is the judge who approved the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.

His name is Bruce Reinhart. He was the one who gave Jeffrey Epstein a sweetheart deal — and then went to work for Epstein.

You read that right.

Just a little FYI. Google it if you don’t believe me.

End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
Aug 9
They banned a sitting president from social media, impeached him two times, jailed his supporters, and now raided his home

And then they go on TV and call us the fascists

MAGA Warlord Poso ⚔️
@JackPosobiec
Aug 10
Even the normies have to be going, "Wait so of all the judges out there this one used to work for Epstein?

Trump in jail would only lower Dem turnout because there’s one less thing to be afraid of now. It would also raise the turnout of the GOP base, to make sure this won’t happen to whoever they want to win the presidency in 2024.

CDC, Citing Natural Immunity, Calls COVID-19 "Over", Proving Political Motivation in their Response
With only a small percentage of Americans accepting COVID-19 vaccine second shots, CDC calls for an end to quarantine, screening and offers a mild nudge toward masking. Timing says it all.

James Lyons-Weiler
11 min ago
Proving that public health’s response to COVID-19 was skewed by politics, two days after the FBI raided former President Donald J. Trump’s personal residence in the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, CDC announces the end of COVID-19.

Citing that a majority of Americans “now” have “some amount of immunity” (a condition that has been in place for a long, long time), CDC now says there is no need to screen, no need to quarantine if you have been exposed. They also called for an end to social distancing.

Please let Twitter know that YOU know the extreme response to COVID-19 was a political ploy designed to stop Trump from downsizing the US government.

I’ve never been an overt Trump supporter, nor have I ever supported Hilary Clinton or Joe Biden.

We need to put an end to the use of our health as a political tool. It’s time to get serious about gutting the CDC and put #PlanB into action.

END CDC. END NIAID. DECENTRALIZE OUR RESPONSE SYSTEM. END REGULATORY CAPTURE. END THE REIGN OF PUBLIC HEALTH OVER SCIENCE AND MEDICINE. SET SCIENCE FREE. SUPPORT #PLANB.