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FBI executes search warrant at Trump's Mar-a-Lago looking for "Top Secret" documents [1]

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Date: 2022-08-08

www.cnn.com/…

CNN reports FBI is raiding Trump’s Mar-a-Lago in Florida.

Trump declined to say why the FBI agents were at Mar-a-Lago, but the former President said the raid was unannounced and "they even broke into my safe." "My beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents," he said in a statement.

Details are becoming available moment by moment. The Wall Street Journal says the search lasted “all day”. The New York Times is saying Biden and the White House did not know about the search until information began appearing on Twitter.

www.nytimes.com/… The search, according to two 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, after he left the White House. Those boxes contained many pages of classified documents, according to a person familiar with their contents.

politicalwire.com/… 18 U.S. Code § 2071 – Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally (a)Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. (b)Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As used in this subsection, the term “office” does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.

www.nytimes.com/… The top House Republican, Kevin McCarthy of California, warned Attorney General Merrick B. Garland of payback for the search of Trump’s property. McCarthy, who has refused a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee, said the Justice Department had “reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization” and pledged to investigate if Republicans retook the House in the 2022 midterm elections. “Attorney General Garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar,” he wrote in a statement.

The 2022 election is now about Trump. I expect him to declare for 2024 any day.

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