FBI raids Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

[Rick Plant]

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Raided by FBI: Everything We’ve Learned
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/08/donald-trump-says-the-fbi-raided-his-home-at-mar-a-lago.html

[Steve M. Galbraith]

The NY Times is reporting (today 8/11) this: "Former President Donald J. Trump received a subpoena this spring in search of documents that federal investigators believed he had failed to turn over earlier in the year, when he returned boxes of material he had improperly taken with him upon moving out of the White House, three people familiar with the matter said…"

If that's true and he refused to turn over the documents - assuming that was what was asked - then why is the raid not warranted? He's denying an authorized court order.

This happens every time: what we think we know on Day One changes with what we learn on Day Two and Three. Always need to wait before jumping ahead of ourselves. That would be, er, me.

[Rick Plant]

Attorney General Merrick Garland is making a statement today at 2:30pm eastern time. We'll see if this is about the DOJ's Trump investigation, or today's violent incident at the FBI Cincinnati field office, or something else. Tune in to find out.

[Rick Plant]

Merrick Garland says the DOJ has filed a motion to unseal the warrant for the Mar-a-Lago search.

Watch: https://twitter.com/i/status/1557806058818658305

[Rick Plant]

May be the biggest news of the day. 

Could be Criminal Donald was selling access to these stolen documents like a guy selling stolen TVs out the back of a truck.


Steve Reilly @BySteveReilly

Significant that one of two DOJ officials who signed today's motion to unseal the Mar-a-Lago search warrant material is Jay Bratt, chief of DOJ's Counterintelligence and Export Control Section.



https://twitter.com/BySteveReilly/status/1557814138923061250

[Rick Plant]

LOCK HIM UP! Criminal Donald had nuclear documents in his possession.

FBI search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago related to nuclear documents, sources say
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/11/garland-trump-mar-a-lago/

[Rick Plant]

FBI searched Mar-a-Lago for nuclear weapons papers, say reports
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/12/first-thing-fbi-searched-mar-a-lago-for-nuclear-weapons-documents-say-reports-trump