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A lawyer for Donald Trump said agents seized about a dozen boxes on Monday, months after 15 boxes of items were returned
In the months before the FBIs dramatic move to execute a search warrant at former president Donald Trumps Florida home and open his safe to look for items federal authorities grew increasingly concerned that Trump or his lawyers and aides had not, in fact, returned all the documents and other material that were government property, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Officials became suspicious that when Trump gave back items to the National Archives about seven months ago, either the former president or people close to him held on to key records despite a Justice Department investigation into the handling of 15 boxes of material sent to the former presidents private club and residence in the waning days of his administration.
Over months of discussions on the subject, some officials also came to suspect Trumps representatives were not truthful at times, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.
On Tuesday, a lawyer for Trump said the agents who brought the court-approved warrant to Mar-a-Lago a day earlier took about 12 more boxes after conducting their search.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/09/trump-fbi-search-mar-a-lago/
bucolic_frolic
(44,025 posts)Who would have guessed?
Irish_Dem
(50,314 posts)tanyev
(42,937 posts)Irish_Dem
(50,314 posts)Dirt on opponents and US government he can use as a get out of jail free card.
wishstar
(5,282 posts)malaise
(270,640 posts)fuck up!
democratsruletheday
(562 posts)lock his gigantic, hideous ass UP!!!!!!
malaise
(270,640 posts)😀
doc03
(35,595 posts)go wrong.
Jarqui
(10,150 posts)from intelligence around the globe.
That would justify their actions to pursue this with a warrant.
Maybe they're following the money Jared got from the Saudis ...
You don't execute a search warrant against a former President unless something of substance is going down.
The security of the country comes before Trump.
pnwest
(3,269 posts)God only knows who Trump had parading through there to take a gander at the docs. I'm sure he sold info to not just the highest bidder, but everyone who cared to pay. You KNOW he's a money-grubbing grifter.
doc03
(35,595 posts)sell secrets. The only thing he has any loyalty to is money and himself.
Johnny2X2X
(19,651 posts)Mar a Lago? Never heard of her, she barely worked on the campaign, she got us coffee occasionally.
durablend
(7,528 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,616 posts)CanonRay
(14,253 posts)Thrill
(19,178 posts)Classified Info
Novara
(5,944 posts)... that this is about the 12 boxes that he didn't return because espionage by a former president is such a hot topic.
No one has said that these 12 boxes were the original boxes of documents he took. What if it's possible these were 12 boxes of NEW evidence that the FBI collected Monday?
Until I hear otherwise, I'm going to suspect this might be new evidence. They don't issue a search warrant for an ex-president for boxes they could have taken when they were there in June. Garland would have asked the FBI if there was any other way to retrieve the documents. A search warrant for an ex-president isn't something they do if they have other ways of obtaining what they need. They had a compelling reason to issue that search warrant, and especially in his safe. They had to have had reason to believe there was a crime being committed now, not the crime of taking documents 18 months ago.
Oh, this is interesting. On CNN they just said that unnamed sources within his cabal thought the investigation of him had stalled until this warrant was issued.
Solly Mack
(90,892 posts)tishaLA
(14,176 posts)She also says part of the search warrant was redacted. So show it. Give an exclusive interview to Fishstick or Hannity and let them have an exclusive about the supposedly petty reason the FBI executed the search warrant.
Buckeyeblue
(5,520 posts)Darwins_Retriever
(870 posts)And this place is located on the coast. No way it has a basement.