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In reply to the discussion: Trump has mystery office near Mar-a-Lago, reportedly with 'boxes everywhere' [View all]ancianita
(43,313 posts)11. The FBI should have listed this location for the FIRST probable cause warrant. I don't get it.
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Its reported that several of Trumps aides working for his campaign or PAC have worked out of the post-presidential office, presumably meaning the North Flagler location. That would be a violation of federal law, which prohibits partisan activities in what is a government facility. Asked about this, Cheung reportedly failed to respond.
But the bigger question about this office is one that could be applied to many Trump properties: Whats in the boxes, and why hasnt the FBI looked?
In an interview with Business Insider, Bush-era special prosecutor Peter Zeidenberg suggested that the FBI was unlikely to search other locations because they were not gonna go just looking around.
However, since there is already convincing evidence that this location held at least one box of classified documents, and some of the charges against Trump and co-defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira concern attempts to conceal documents shouldnt that be sufficient cause to get a few search warrants? Besides, Trump regularly accuses the FBI of being engaged in a witch hunt. Compared with that, a fishing expedition seems pretty benign.
According to a February article in The Guardian, at least one box of documents with classified markings were transported to Mar-a-Lago from another office in Florida some time after the FBI completed its search of Trumps resort. These documents appear to have come from the North Flagler office.
Private parties hired by Trumps legal team searched the office, along with Trump Tower and the Bedminister golf site. The Department of Justice was reportedly unhappy with the Mar-a-Lago search and pressed for a repeat visit to that location. No additional private searches appear to have taken place at Bedminster or North Flagler.
Many of the documents from the box at North Flagler appear to have been related to Trumps schedules in the White House. In January, the federal grand jury investigating the classified documents case issued a subpoena for one of those documents, a folder marked Classified Evening Briefing. That document was reportedly found in Trumps bedroom.
But the bigger question about this office is one that could be applied to many Trump properties: Whats in the boxes, and why hasnt the FBI looked?
In an interview with Business Insider, Bush-era special prosecutor Peter Zeidenberg suggested that the FBI was unlikely to search other locations because they were not gonna go just looking around.
However, since there is already convincing evidence that this location held at least one box of classified documents, and some of the charges against Trump and co-defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira concern attempts to conceal documents shouldnt that be sufficient cause to get a few search warrants? Besides, Trump regularly accuses the FBI of being engaged in a witch hunt. Compared with that, a fishing expedition seems pretty benign.
According to a February article in The Guardian, at least one box of documents with classified markings were transported to Mar-a-Lago from another office in Florida some time after the FBI completed its search of Trumps resort. These documents appear to have come from the North Flagler office.
Private parties hired by Trumps legal team searched the office, along with Trump Tower and the Bedminister golf site. The Department of Justice was reportedly unhappy with the Mar-a-Lago search and pressed for a repeat visit to that location. No additional private searches appear to have taken place at Bedminster or North Flagler.
Many of the documents from the box at North Flagler appear to have been related to Trumps schedules in the White House. In January, the federal grand jury investigating the classified documents case issued a subpoena for one of those documents, a folder marked Classified Evening Briefing. That document was reportedly found in Trumps bedroom.
IF this is true, then the next question is, did the FBI completely inform the DOJ? If not, heads should roll.
IF this is not true, this might be some kind of sneaky setup to discredit the DOJ's and overall government's thoroughness, credibility and trustworthiness.
Chris Wray's got some 'splainin' to do.
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Trump has mystery office near Mar-a-Lago, reportedly with 'boxes everywhere' [View all]
riversedge
Sep 2023
OP
I worked for an attorney in that building and was in there often to give them mail we received in
SheilaAnn
Sep 2023
#1
Trump owned a condo building about two doors down from the North Flagler offices back in the day. nt
SheilaAnn
Sep 2023
#13
I think this particular FBI office was for probation purposes. It was pretty heavily reinforced
SheilaAnn
Sep 2023
#14
The FBI should have listed this location for the FIRST probable cause warrant. I don't get it.
ancianita
Sep 2023
#11
I hear you. Maybe there's something they and Smith know that we don't. I don't want to jump
ancianita
Sep 2023
#31
That would be a violation of federal law, which prohibits partisan
Dark n Stormy Knight
Sep 2023
#43
I wonder what, aside from national secrets and dignity, the Orange Menace took from the
LoisB
Sep 2023
#15
Doesn't everyone have a shed full of presidential documents secretly stashed!!??
Alexander Of Assyria
Sep 2023
#34
Ask the co-conspirators. Certainly Trump never carried a box in there. Someone else did. nt
wiggs
Sep 2023
#16
I always wondered how many other "locations" and receivers of classified docs this SOB has/had.
Evolve Dammit
Sep 2023
#18
Are you surprised, I'm not. Many at the DoJ didn't want Mar-a-Lago searched.
republianmushroom
Sep 2023
#21
Wouldn't all records be subject to the Presidential Records Act and need to be retrieved?
nature-lover
Sep 2023
#23