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ancianita

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11. The FBI should have listed this location for the FIRST probable cause warrant. I don't get it.
Mon Sep 11, 2023, 07:04 PM
Sep 2023

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It’s reported that several of Trump’s 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: What’s in the boxes, and why hasn’t 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 … shouldn’t 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 Trump’s resort. These documents appear to have come from the North Flagler office.

Private parties hired by Trump’s 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 Trump’s 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 Trump’s 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. At the same time I'm wondering what Jack Smith is going to do about this.

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I worked for an attorney in that building and was in there often to give them mail we received in SheilaAnn Sep 2023 #1
fbi was in there? that's really weird orleans Sep 2023 #7
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
Cool you're so close. What are "probation purposes" ? Laura PourMeADrink Sep 2023 #24
Many released prisoners still have to report to probation for a while. n/t SheilaAnn Sep 2023 #32
yes, the article said the FBI had office in same building riversedge Sep 2023 #29
LOL it just gets murkier each day bucolic_frolic Sep 2023 #2
... 2naSalit Sep 2023 #3
This post deserves a recommendation. Ptah Sep 2023 #10
Thanks! 2naSalit Sep 2023 #12
But not funny (IIRC). OMGWTF Sep 2023 #38
The P.O.S. needs to die in prison Botany Sep 2023 #4
No one has ever answered... Why do the secret agencies Laura PourMeADrink Sep 2023 #25
I posted this earlier PJMcK Sep 2023 #36
Thanks. So agencies know what Trump has if anything Laura PourMeADrink Sep 2023 #40
This message was self-deleted by its author orleans Sep 2023 #5
Sounds like the FBI should get another warrant. Lonestarblue Sep 2023 #6
I thought we already knew about this place? oldsoftie Sep 2023 #8
I'm so sick and tired of this man Deuxcents Sep 2023 #9
The FBI should have listed this location for the FIRST probable cause warrant. I don't get it. ancianita Sep 2023 #11
seems like a whole lot of boxes for the FBI just to ignore IMHO riversedge Sep 2023 #30
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
I would bet MorbidButterflyTat Sep 2023 #44
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
Probably down to sheets and towels. n/t Harker Sep 2023 #19
That would not surprise me at all. LoisB Sep 2023 #22
Joe Biden doesn't get any credit for moving into a Laura PourMeADrink Sep 2023 #26
And Melons demanded a brand new shower and toilet when she moved into the WH OMGWTF Sep 2023 #39
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'd be willing to bet Mr.Bill Sep 2023 #17
Yes, it's hard to believe he wouldn't be. ShazzieB Sep 2023 #20
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
The reasons other areas weren't searched... Shipwack Sep 2023 #42
Exactly! Dark n Stormy Knight Sep 2023 #45
Wouldn't all records be subject to the Presidential Records Act and need to be retrieved? nature-lover Sep 2023 #23
Why haven't all of his properties been searched by now? Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2023 #27
Need a warrant. Dark n Stormy Knight Sep 2023 #46
Needs somebody willing to apply for a warrant. Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2023 #47
Yep. Many in DOJ fought the idea to search Pissolini's palace Dark n Stormy Knight Sep 2023 #48
A room with a toilet, cheap chandelier, and stacks of boxes Blue Owl Sep 2023 #28
Seeing how FBI had at least one agent on Putin's payroll... Kid Berwyn Sep 2023 #33
If we know about it orangecrush Sep 2023 #35
I bet if you were to dig up his Ex Wife's grave sellitman Sep 2023 #37
Thought his wcret office was the crapper. Smackdown2019 Sep 2023 #41
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