The FBI received a tip that more material had been classified as classified in the former president’s property
Donald Trump has rats in his house. This is how the mafia talks about the snitch who betray them. The thirty or so FBI agents who spent the day searching the Mar-a-Lago mansion on Monday knew where to look. Of the 126 rooms in the 5,810 m2 building, only three have been inspected: the bedroom, the office and the basement storage room. According to Newsweek magazine and the Wall Street Journal, an informant had told the FBI that there were more classified documents in the mansion than his legal team admitted.
The smear campaign suffered by the FBI this week as a result of the operation at Trump’s home is so extensive that Attorney General Merrick Garland came out this Thursday to confront him. “I will not remain silent as the integrity of the men and women of the FBI and Justice Department prosecutors are unjustly attacked,” he said in a rare statement to the cameras. “They are devoted and devoted patriots who serve the country day in and day out.” Garland, considered a prudent and fair judge who follows the law to the letter, said he personally approved the operation. To defend the Justice Department against the smear campaign emanating from Trump circles and which has led to the number of threats against the FBI, Attorney General has asked Federal Judge Bruce Reinhart to partially lift the secrecy of the summary to the public. show the evidence on which the search warrant was based.
The National Archives and the FBI had been negotiating with Trump’s attorneys for a year and a half for the full return of all the material he took with him during his troubling departure from the White House. Frankly, he wasn’t the one packing. Trump had no intention of leaving power. It was his assistants who rushed the move for the past few hours. So much so that there was no transition with his successor. Not even the usual walk the first lady gives her a surrogate to teach her the ins and outs of the presidential mansion, introduce her to the staff and give her the best advice. Not that Joe and Jill Biden needed them either. As vice president and second lady, they had lived across the street and regularly visited the Obamas.
Trump slammed the door and frowned, but he knew what he was getting. Last January, 15 boxes were returned to the National Archives after a year, but on Monday FBI agents found another 10 or 15 boxes, according to the source, during a meticulous search that began at 9 a.m. and ended at 7 p.m. They did not enter with weapons or FBI T-shirts, but were instructed to be as discreet as possible. The operation was carefully planned on the grounds not to coincide with the former president, who was in New York that day to testify before Attorney General Letitia James. It was his son Eric who got the first call about the FBI’s presence on the property, something unprecedented in United States history and “unnecessary” in his opinion. Trump’s lawyers had agreed to fortify the lock of the storage room where most of the requested documents were kept, along with T-shirts and golf shoes, at the request of the head of counterintelligence, Jay Bratt, who searched the basement of Mar-a- More last June 3.
“We didn’t want him to turn it into a media circus,” an FBI source told Newsweek magazine. The tycoon, veiled and without access to Twitter, was slow to respond, but eventually spread the record in a press release. He has since used it to amplify his fundraising campaign for purposes as yet unspecified and believed to be electoral. “Empty the swamp!” demanded the followers demonstrating for his property to show their support the next day.
80% of Republicans surveyed by the Trafalgar Institute say they feel more motivated to vote after that raid, which has paradoxically increased their power within the party. On Tuesday, Trump scored another string of indirect victories in the party’s primaries across the country. At first glance, they seem too local to draw any conclusions, but it is enough to scratch a little to understand why the conservative formation of Ronald Reagan and George Bush has bowed to him. Not only did Trump get more votes in his reelection campaign, he also looks stronger than ever. Certainly stronger than the party’s traditional candidates.
On Tuesday, ultra-conservative Rebecca Kleefish, who served as the governor’s lieutenant and was backed by Vice President Mike Pence and the local Republican Party apparatus, lost the primaries to Trumpist Tim Michels, a construction manager who had received an award from the Republican Party. former president. Its defeat sent a chill in Washington, where Republicans who had been silent after the FBI operation rushed to criticize it and support allegations that it is a campaign of intimidation and demolition against the former president, who hails from the White House. to prevent him from running for election again. The White House is silent and believes it would be inappropriate to comment on this. In fact, he assures Biden found out through the media.
Trump supporters go even further, accusing the Justice Department of using the registry to “plant” evidence in the mansion to prosecute him. As evidence, they argue that the FBI has requested that the security cameras be turned off to protect the identities of the agents involved in the operation. The president’s legal team has not released a copy of the search warrant or inventory of what the FBI took, both in its possession, on the excuse that the evidence presented to the federal judge in Palm Beach who approved the file , sealed under a summary. confidentiality. Their lawyers are debating whether to go to court to request that this exception be lifted, which will not affect the documents they have received.
Democrats and Republicans alike are already calling on cautious Attorney General Merrick Garland to issue some statement explaining the unusual decision to search a former president’s home, but Trump is in no rush to clear it up. , because paradoxically, his power increases as their legal problems increase. The bases are convinced he is a victim of the system, which is rising from the bowels of Washington DC against a candidate who does not follow the traditional rules of politics.
It was learned this Thursday that in Washington state, Trumpist Joe Kent defeated deputy Jaime Herrera, whom Trump had targeted in revenge for voting in favor of his disqualification following the January 6 uprising. Of the 10 Republicans who voted for his impeachment, only two survive, and one of them, Deputy Liz Cheney, who plays a prominent role at the head of the bipartisan commission investigating the attack on the Capitol, will head the have to offer to a Trumpist next Tuesday in the primaries. The daughter of former Bush Vice President says she is prepared for his defeat and ready to continue the fight against Trump. Three of the ten congressmen who oppose him in his second impeachment proceedings have lost the primaries and another four have preferred to resign.
Source: La Verdad
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