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specific leather caseAides to former President Donald Trump believe that a member of his family may have tipped off the FBI about the presence of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, The Guardian reported.
Multiple sources close to Trump told the publication that after the August 8 search of Trump's resort in Palm Beach, Florida, aides began speculating about who could have been speaking to the agency.
In the search, agents took more than a dozen boxes of items, as well as highly classified information. They appeared to have specific information about what to look for.
Speculation initially focused on Trump's political aides, and resort staff at Mar-a-Lago, the outlet's sources said, before shifting to those closer to Trump.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-aides-think-a-family-member-informed-on-him-to-the-fbi-because-agents-knew-where-to-find-a-specific-leather-case-report-says/ar-AA10NqTQ
Ivanka, Jared or both?
Ray Bruns
(4,023 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,572 posts)The Trump family may have found its match.
blueknight73
(295 posts)Guarantee it was him. He comes from a long line of scammers and scoundrels
Mike_in_LA
(186 posts)She figured he'd have been dead by now and is at the "let's speed this along, please" stage....
intheflow
(28,403 posts)It's why she had to take a fall.
OMGWTF
(3,891 posts)FakeNoose
(32,332 posts)Certainly not since Chump lost the election, and not before either. However Ivanka and Jared probably both knew where his stuff was hidden.
I'd think that Jared has a stake in keeping this stuff quiet because he's just as guilty as Chump in some of it. Not the coup though, he made sure he was out of the country when it happened.
intheflow
(28,403 posts)But my post was 98% snark.
(2% is earnest )
I am sure she will contribute generously to his Commissary Account.
but we don't know if Melba Toast wants to cross her Russian handlers at this point.
Ocelot II
(115,268 posts)He's old enough to have figured a few things out, and TFG is probably a terrible father.
Tommy Carcetti
(43,080 posts)Link to tweet
The Vaccinated Trucker @John_the_L
Scene: Mar-A-Lago, interior, morning.
Barron: (not looking up from his X-box)
"The safe's in the back."
6:49 PM · Aug 9, 2022·Twitter for Android
cstamm53
(58 posts)When's the last time we heard from her?
Trump always treated her "so unfairly".
Sky Jewels
(6,848 posts)and Tiffany getting her long overdue revenge on Daddy Trump would be the best ending ever.
*Camera slowly zooms in on Tiffany's face. Her mouth draws up into a knowing smirk. Breaking the 4th wall, she winks at the camera. End scene and blackout. Roll credits.*
moniss
(3,949 posts)and I would only add to that shot the Orange Ruski being dragged away in shackles in the background. While an audio clip of The Bobby Fuller Four doing "I Fought the Law" plays over the credits with a loop of Hillary laughing throughout the audio.
Sky Jewels
(6,848 posts)orleans
(33,986 posts)tiffany's mouth draws up into a knowing smirk as she enters the living room where we see barron seated on the couch, focused on his x-box. as she crosses through the living room she passes barron who looks up at her with the same smirk on his face. they high-five as she continues through the room and exits and barron's attention returns to the x-box.
cut to tiffany walking down the driveway where her secret service boyfriend is waiting for her by the passenger side of her car. she happily walks up to him, gives him a quick kiss, and turns to get in the car. we hear a gunshot and she collapses.
secret service boyfriend walks up the driveway and enters the house. moments later we hear another gunshot. we see him exit the building and hop into the passenger side of a car that pulls up out of nowhere.
we do not see the driver. the car speeds away. roll credits.
Sky Jewels
(6,848 posts)Very good!
Walleye
(30,701 posts)I havent heard how they got the surveillance footage, but I imagine they subpoenaed it directly from the security company and perhaps the trumps didnt even really know about it
blogslug
(37,955 posts)Maybe TFG thought he had the cameras placed so unobtrusively the FBI wouldn't notice they were there when they visited back in January or whenever it was they first came to collect the papers n stuff.
"That camera was behind a potted plant! How could they know it was there? Somebody snitched!"
Walleye
(30,701 posts)I love armchair detective work
homegirl
(1,419 posts)should have been part of Secret Service materials produced when Trump was spending time there. Identifying points of entry and vulnerability sites, in order to provide protection for #45.
Irish_Dem
(45,619 posts)We are supposed to believe the FBI, CIA, Military Intelligence had absolutely no idea that a POTUS was stealing and selling classified intel to our enemies? Or at the least was stockpiling them for later sale?
And didn't know Trump loaded the secret docs in open view onto a truck as he left the WH?
And that they were sitting in the basement of MAL?
It was only until some hapless Trump family member informed them that they knew.
Good God.
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)More intriguing its family member, but thats down on my list.
tRump doesnt know
sleepless nights, a wire on everything coming in and out of his circle of fascists.
Vinca
(50,168 posts)tidbits in the affidavit.
may contain a "ledger" of sorts about who is bidding or has paid how much for which documents. It's also possible that the total quantity of boxes and documents were meant to purposely be so voluminous in the hopes that the confidential/top secret ones would be overlooked mixed in with thousands of folders/documents of non-classified stuff.
Walleye
(30,701 posts)Pluvious
(4,276 posts)Too many threats against her son and family
Emile
(21,887 posts)have something to do with it!
moniss
(3,949 posts)and it would be typical in these kinds of crooked goings on that they would have more than one "iron in the fire" so to speak. So maybe the Saudi thinking was "Let's get what we can from the bloated tick but in case he is withholding and not giving us everything let's spend some money on "insurance" that can exert some pain".
Irish_Dem
(45,619 posts)And from only one country.
Renew Deal
(81,801 posts)She is the most cutthroat of them all.
GuppyGal
(1,739 posts)Heather MC
(8,084 posts)Why not shit on him on the way out as well
Grins
(7,128 posts)Who cares who squealed (if anyone)? They should be looking at what the FBI found and what it says about Trump - and THEM - trying to run cover for him.
Jarqui
(10,110 posts)they have several witnesses.
A secret service agent has also been mentioned as a possible source.
packman
(16,296 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)herding cats
(19,549 posts)It keeps being mentioned and my curiosity is piqued!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)That at this stage of his life there is such a glut of persons who might have sold him out to the feds that observers can put the hat on any of a dozen people?
getagrip_already
(14,228 posts)With all the hired help tfg has likely mistreated and abused, it's entirely possible it's some hired help who got stiffed or abused.
Never doubt how much those who clean your shite know about you.
Mr. Evil
(2,746 posts)Jared was the middle man holding it for tfg so it wouldn't technically show up on tfg's books. Jared rats out tfg. Now, Jared and Ivanka get to keep $2B.
Just my 2cents.
AntiFascist
(12,792 posts)The $2bn was likely invested legally. However, what was traded previously to help setup UAE/Saudi nuclear capabilities violated US National Security.
Mr. Evil
(2,746 posts)As long as the money keeps flowing.
TFG and his spawn are simply exhausting. They can't go away soon enough!
Fritz Walter
(4,281 posts)I take no joy in watching a family tear itself apart, but theres a bit of Schadenfreude at play here, especially once the snitch is uncovered. And a favorite German quote seems apt here:
And that might just overload my aversion to family disintegration if not utter devastation.
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Sprinkle hot sauce on freshly popped corn; or
Soak the kernels in pepper-infused oil before stovetop or microwave popping.
Enjoy!
Behind the Aegis
(53,823 posts)Then they will run with the "back-stabbing Jew" stereotype, which will fuel more anti-Semitism, which will be ignored by all except those who are affected or give two shits about Jews.
AntiFascist
(12,792 posts)if anti-Semitic MAGAts now turn against Jared, it will further highlight Trump's neo-Nazi base and further erode Trump's chances of getting re-elected, if that will even be possible at this point.
Behind the Aegis
(53,823 posts)And, sadly, no, any anti-Semitism against Kushner or any large amount of Jews by RW'ers will have zero effect on his base. Jews don't count, a historic theme among many.
scarletlib
(3,400 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,021 posts)dalton99a
(81,065 posts)Deminpenn
(15,246 posts)Agatha Christie could hardly write a better whodunit.
Samrob
(4,298 posts)Any bets?
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)Put them together and you get 1 good idea?
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)A reference to it could have been overheard in a conversation in a public place.
Irish_Dem
(45,619 posts)Most likely in public over dinner at MAL.
He couldn't help himself.
Or perhaps he did it on purpose. Part of his marketing campaign, letting enemies know what he had.
For sale to highest bidder.
dweller
(23,559 posts)feel a little dirty writing that
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Skittles
(152,964 posts)she fucking HATED being First Lady, she never imagined her gold digging duties would include actually WORKING or even PRETENDING TO WORK
Irish_Dem
(45,619 posts)They didn't know he was selling them while in office and afterwards?
They didn't know he had a truck load of secret documents?
They didn't know the docs were sitting in a basement?
And they had to rely on a Trump family member recently informing them?