To justify the unprecedented raid on a former president's residence and protect the source who revealed the existence of Trump's private hoard, agents went into Trump's residence on the pretext that they were seeking all government documents, says one official who has been involved in the investigation. But the true target was this private stash, which Justice Department officials feared Donald Trump might weaponize.

The two U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the situation tell Newsweek that while some of the intelligence documents might have dealt with nuclear weapons, that was not the main focus. "Donald Trump kept documents that interested him," one of those officials says, "sometimes Iranian or North Korean nukes, sometimes Ukraine or Russia, some foreign leaders." It wasn't the subject matter per se that was of interest to Justice as it was fear that Trump might "weaponize" the information, including for personal gain, the official says.

"Trump was particularly interested in matters related to the Russia hoax and the wrong-doings of the deep state," one former Trump official tells Newsweek. "I think he felt, and I agree, that these are facts that the American people need to know." The official says Trump may have been planning to use them as part of a 2024 run for the presidency.

The high-level U.S. government officials explain that it was not necessarily the classification level of the documents nor even their subject matter that investigators were focused on.

If true then this would be exactly what a few of us suspected to be the real reason. This was a political raid to find out what he knew to get ahead of his eventual run and use of it

No pshit. Water is wet. And those files weren't digitalized either.

And they can't be used in court if he sues cause they're now part of "an ongoing criminal investigation".

didn’t we already cover that?

it’s all about the worry and vindictiveness of the ultimate sadist … ol’ boy is gonna monkeypox their arse if they don’t off him first…

#frontRowPopcorn

I wonder if DJT has some stuff NOT and Mar-a-Lago. They guy has multiple properties and I am sure he has some/many secret hiding places besides just there?

(08-17-2022 10:10 AM)gdunn Wrote:  And they can't be used in court if he sues cause they're now part of "an ongoing criminal investigation".

Those documents arent really a problem for Trump. They are a problem for the DOJ and intelligence folks that skirted legality in an all out political effort to "get Trump" from 2016 to 2020. Thats why they want them.

Exactly

Anyone with half a brain knew what that fishing expedition was all about.

Funny how times change. Watergate was a two-bit break-in to Dem HQ to steal docs that forced a president to resign.

Now the FBI is doing it to an ex-president whose politics they dislike. But Garland and Biden likely won't see any consequences from this.

"I'll take 'HISTORICALLY BAD TAKES' for $200, Alex!"



You do realize that stealing government documents belonging to the NARA to use in your 2024 presidential campaign isn't a good look, right?

I'll take water carriers for $600, Alex.

(08-18-2022 07:08 AM)appst89 Wrote:  I'll take water carriers for $600, Alex.

I wonder how the waterboy will feel next year when the IRS is ripping through his tax returns with a fine tooth comb.

(08-18-2022 07:02 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  You do realize that stealing government documents belonging to the NARA to use in your 2024 presidential campaign isn't a good look, right?

Well, so far it's not even a look.

(08-18-2022 07:15 AM)Eldonabe Wrote:  

(08-18-2022 07:08 AM)appst89 Wrote:  I'll take water carriers for $600, Alex.

I wonder how the waterboy will feel next year when the IRS is ripping through his tax returns with a fine tooth comb.

I make less than $400k and I don't itemize.

I'm good, thanks.

(08-18-2022 07:45 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(08-18-2022 07:15 AM)Eldonabe Wrote:  

(08-18-2022 07:08 AM)appst89 Wrote:  I'll take water carriers for $600, Alex.

I wonder how the waterboy will feel next year when the IRS is ripping through his tax returns with a fine tooth comb.

I make less than $400k and I don't itemize.

I'm good, thanks.

You also sing out of the gov't-approved hymnal. IRS audits, and other gov't thuggery, are meant only for those on the right.

So, yeah, you're good RWT.

So they were just trying to cover their tracks. Shocking.

(08-18-2022 07:45 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(08-18-2022 07:15 AM)Eldonabe Wrote:  

(08-18-2022 07:08 AM)appst89 Wrote:  I'll take water carriers for $600, Alex.

I wonder how the waterboy will feel next year when the IRS is ripping through his tax returns with a fine tooth comb.

I make less than $400k and I don't itemize.

I'm good, thanks.

Sounds like it's time to up that charitable giving

(08-17-2022 10:10 AM)gdunn Wrote:  And they can't be used in court if he sues cause they're now part of "an ongoing criminal investigation".

But the information he knows from those docs can and will be used against them when he wins in 2024.