So the question is, why NOW??

[70sEraVet]

We know that TFG took boxes of documents when he left the White House, and we know that many were marked 'Top Secret'. And we know that he returned most documents, but that he didn't return ALL of them.
What made the DOJ act now? And with a very high-profile RAID?
What may have happened recently, to make the DOJ suddenly fear for the safety of those Top Secret documents?
One recent event was the Saudi-Backed LIV Golf tournament. Was Treasonous Bastard overheard making a sales pitch?
Sure, just conjecture.

[Firestorm49]

1. Preparation. Garland is notorious on having his markers in place.

Once it gets the go, he’s got his case pretty much made.

[intrepidity]

2. Maybe it took this long to cross all those Ts

and dot all those Is in order to have a judge sign off on it?

[Justice matters.]

3. THIS! And WHY isn't he getting ARRESTED for illegally displaying the POTUS Seal???

https://www.salon.com/2022/07/29/law-by-showing-off-presidential-seal-while-hosting-saudi-backed-golf-event_partner/

[usonian]

4. TFG has been consorting with all kinds of shady foreigners lately.

Saudi, as you mention. Orbàn. Others?

[FalloutShelter]

5. Just under the wire...

no action within 90 days of an election.... famously violated by Comey.

[relayerbob]

6. Agreed with others

No reason required for “why now?”. Garland and his team have been working for a long time on this. It has to be done perfectly, there is no room for error. There was no sudden rush, just the culmination of a very tough investigation. They likely planned it around trump being away, though. May have picked the 8th symbolically, but that seems improbable.

[Beastly Boy]

7. If anything happened, my bet is it didn't happen recently.

Garland has been patiently collecting pieces of the puzzle for months until he had enough to get the damn place searched.

[Novara]

8. Because fresh evidence was obtained and there's an immediate security threat

That's what the legal talking heads are saying. There's no specific planning or strategy here. They are saying that new evidence of an ongoing crime precipitated this.

For this to go through Wray, who was appointed by the orange fuck, and a federal judge who was appointed by the orange fuck, means it was a pretty important and urgent request, not just a matter of returning documents he wasn't going to return.

And no, it wasn't a raid. A raid is when they bust the door down and put everyone in handcuffs while they search. Besides, when you call it a raid, you're using the orange fuck's words. It was a well-executed search with a warrant signed off by the highest levels of justice in this country, the FBI and the DOJ.

It's way more than just stealing classified documents, and THAT is bad enough!

[msfiddlestix]

10. Ah. Thank you! This explanation makes sense to me.

I'm very relieved to learn this is related to a current On-Going Crime, that a search at Magot lardo would yield relaed evidnece.

The notion it was about the stolen documents and that it would still be stashed there, triggered skepticism.

I hope this search did yield evidence for his current treasonous and fraudulaent activities.

But once again, I also suspect that the henchmen with all parties would have seen to it, that nothing would be brought to or left in his floridian porn palace. He might be stupid, but these other people I would suppose are much smarter.

[LakeArenal]

9. Wow. Damned if he doesn't damned if he does.

Now? Because this is when it happened.

[SWBTATTReg]

11. Good question. I eagerly await the various reasons as to why now, this search by the FBI, etc.

I suspect like you say, the possible sale of sensitive documents (which I wouldn't put past tRUMP, who is so hot and heavy on money, getting it (the money) etc., that he'll compromise anyone and everybody, sell everything he can, to get yet more money.

[Chainfire]

12. Are we safe to believe that the warrant was for mishandled secret documents? NT