The former president’s advisers are even investigating members of his family and employees of the mansion in search of the informant who revealed the existence of secret documents in his possession.
Not wanting the details of its investigation into former President Trump to be disclosed, the US Justice Department has asked a judge for the sealed search warrant at Mar-a-Lago’s home that he handed over to the FBI. This order allowed investigators to enter the mansion more than a week ago, inspect it and seize up to 20 boxes full of official documents that the Republican leader had taken with him after the loss of the presidency. At least 11 files are classified as top secret and should never have left the White House.
The department argues that the search warrant contains confidential information about witnesses and that its disclosure could impair their cooperation, as well as that of other potential witnesses who may provide crucial information to ongoing investigations in the future. The document, which includes an affidavit, is equivalent to summary secrecy in judicial proceedings in Spain. The Ministry of Justice considers it necessary because it contains sensitive information and specific details about the probable cause (indications) of the crimes investigated.
However, this decision has heightened distrust in Trump’s legal team and heightened the already tense atmosphere within the small group of advisers who deal with the former president on a daily basis. The tycoon has demanded the return of some of the seized documents through his social platform, although his team has not used the appropriate legal channels for the claim. Justice has returned three passports that federal agents also seized. Two of them had expired and the third, the diplomatic passport, was active.
The search of the mansion revealed that the FBI had advance knowledge of the existence of classified national security documents in the possession of the former president, and that someone “inside” must have provided that information to the FBI. The suspicion that a person close to the Republican leader has become an FBI informant has skyrocketed in Trump’s inner circle, leading to a frenetic “mole hunt” within his own ranks.
According to multiple sources, the first suspicions fell on Nicholas Luna, the former personal assistant to the former president, who left the post in March and is also expected to leave the circle of close friends soon. On the other, Molly Michael, the former chief of operations of the Oval Office of the White House. Luna received a subpoena to testify in the investigation of the commission studying the attack on the Capitol, but he is not believed to have spoken to the FBI about this other case.
Mar-a-Lago employees and Palm Beach-only resort staff who are familiar with the resort’s facilities have also become suspicious because the FBI knew exactly which rooms to search and the specific places where the documents were located. . The investigations were further expanded after the former president’s team learned that the FBI knew the exact location of the vault. The investigation has thus been extended to members of the Trump family itself.
For example, the search for the ‘informant’ has led to a crisis of trust within the family circle that reaches a level of paranoia even higher than the periods of his presidency, which were characterized by fierce struggles of rival interests and political stabbings.
After registration, the tycoon reorganized his defense team in the public sphere with three new lawyers. It consists of three women, former Oan host Alina Habba, Lindsey Halligan and Christina Bobb, who are responsible for spreading the public arguments in favor of Trump. Still, the trio have so far failed to impress anyone with their numerous appearances in the right-wing media, where they’ve tried to plant more conspiracy theories and questionable (and even contradictory) speculation about the record in Sea-To-Lake. Bobb and Halligan were present on the day of the search, but were prevented from entering the building during the federal inspection.
Trump’s narrative of public apologies for the documents in his possession, including folders containing top-secret nuclear information, continues to shift as new data emerges: from denying their existence, later stating that they were released, later blaming the former President Obama and the FBI—which he accuses of deliberately posting the classified documents to trap him—until they make the entire operation fake to prevent him from running for office.
Still, the search for Mar-a-Lago has accelerated Trump’s fundraising efforts, taking advantage of the ire of his supporters to solicit contributions to fund his political campaign. Despite acknowledging the need to lower the temperature of violent rhetoric, the truth is that the registry has inflated its collection bill with steroids.
Source: La Verdad
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