Donald Trump
The FBI search of Donald Trump’s home came after an earlier visit by agents to discuss documents he improperly took when he left the White House. By law, presidential materials must be preserved and sent to the National Archives when leaving office. https://t.co/hptEknsWeH
— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 9, 2022
From the New York Times:
Former President Donald J. Trump said on Monday that the F.B.I. had searched his Palm Beach, Fla., home and had broken open a safe — an account signaling a major escalation in the various investigations into the final stages of his presidency.
The search, according to multiple people familiar with the investigation, appeared to be focused on material that Mr. Trump had brought with him to Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence, when he left the White House. Those boxes contained many pages of classified documents, according to a person familiar with their contents.
Mr. Trump delayed returning 15 boxes of material requested by officials with the National Archives for many months, only doing so when there became a threat of action to retrieve them. The case was referred to the Justice Department by the archives early this year.
To be clear, in order to obtain a search warrant, the FBI would have needed a judge to convince a judge there was probable cause of a crime having been committed. No judge would casually sign off on a warrant like this without serious probable cause. And it’s worth noting that Christopher Wray, the current director of the FBI, was appointed by – guess who? – Donald Trump. But the right-wing loonies are having a melt-down over this as if it was some random move by the FBI. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is already calling to “defund the FBI.”
Flashback: Trump praised FBI Director Christopher Wray as a man of “impeccable credentials” when he nominated him to lead the bureau in 2017. pic.twitter.com/7rFo5JkEUr
— The Recount (@therecount) August 8, 2022
Trump failed to return classified docs requested by the National Archives. A federal judge issued a search warrant for probable cause of a crime. This is not some rando move by the FBI so you shitforbrains Republicans calling for “defunding the FBI”for once try to be less stupid https://t.co/L9qVLqmwsT
— Michael Steele (@MichaelSteele) August 9, 2022
The raid of MAL is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves. Now the Regime is getting another 87k IRS agents to wield against its adversaries? Banana Republic.
— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantisFL) August 9, 2022
Biden is playing with fire by using a document dispute to get the @TheJusticeDept to persecute a likely future election opponent Because one day what goes around is going to come around And then we become Nicaragua under Ortega pic.twitter.com/LwODnsYtcr
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) August 9, 2022
Attorney General Garland: preserve your documents and clear your calendar. pic.twitter.com/dStAjnwbAT
— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) August 9, 2022
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