FBI Sought Documents Trump Hoarded for
Years, Including about Russiagate
Newsweek,
by
William M. Arkin
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
8/17/2022 11:34:01 AM
The FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago last Monday was specifically intended to recover Donald Trump's personal "stash" of hidden documents, two high-level U.S. intelligence officials tell Newsweek.
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.
(snip) documents that Trump had been collecting since early in his administration,"
Reply 1 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 8/17/2022 11:38:47 AM (No. 1250969)
Yes, it was a fishing trip to see exactly what he has on the deep state of corruption.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
seamusm 8/17/2022 11:44:04 AM (No. 1250976)
And I pray that every doc has been copied and stored safely.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/17/2022 11:44:48 AM (No. 1250977)
FBI setting the narrative with the help of Newsweek. The FBI lies, and Newsweek repeats those lies as truth.
Proof that not only does our government need a thorough cleaning, but so does our media.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
RadioGuy77 8/17/2022 11:45:24 AM (No. 1250979)
These inept (suppossed) FBI agents have been caught red handed, and will eventually have to give everything back. In the meantime, I'll bet they "by mistake" end up burning all 17 boxes they retrieved, plus the truck they hauled it away in. This is big-time ganster activity. Ooooohhhhhhh!!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
edgar 8/17/2022 11:58:01 AM (No. 1250995)
If the FBI and DOJ, according to Director Wray and AG Garland are truly not able to comment on this investigation, then this article is just speculation. Notice how they said "...two high level intelligence officials" so it is not singularly sourced. But never the less, this is total speculation and will likely turn out the same as the speculation about Russia Hoax, Impeachment Hoaxes, etc. Fake News.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
pugetpower 8/17/2022 11:58:34 AM (No. 1250997)
Newsweek and Time are in the same league as the New York Times.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
3XALADY 8/17/2022 12:18:07 PM (No. 1251025)
I'm seeing comments the 'source' might be Jared the Lib.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 8/17/2022 12:21:52 PM (No. 1251027)
Ohmigod!
President Trump had a "hoard" - - a "private stash" - - of "material that Trump apparently thought would exonerate him of any claims of Russian collusion ' - - even AFTER he was exonerated of any Russian collusion.
This is - - yes - - this is unspeakable. A stash - - a hoard - - a private collection - - possibly to be "weaponized"!
Liz Cheney 2024!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Birddog 8/17/2022 12:25:50 PM (No. 1251028)
Sooo..after the initial sales pitch that this is about NUKES!! ESPIONAGE!!!
Now they are saying...It's the LAW about overdue Library materials.
As far as Russia gate, tapping the phones at Trump tower, the Executive office Building, advisors and attorneys...and Clinton coercion of the FBI/DOJ...Trump was/is publicy on record AT THE TIME of announcing he had removed all classified controls from ALL of those documents and called upon the NSA to unredact everything that was not 100% a national security risk and make them 100% available to the press and the public ASAP...they still have not done so. This is more tied to his civil suit(in the same S.Florida dist Court) against Hillary and all of her related minions, than it is to do with anything involving Nat Security. The Magistrate who signed the Warrant had already recused himself from the Hillary suit because he had "Conflicts" pertaining to the persons involved. I GUARANTEE Hillary and her lawyers have access to ALL of the stuff they are seizing from Trump...while he has NEVER had access to the mountains of stuff she kept secret. SHE still has a top secret clearance and gets NSA Briefings, Biden took Trumps away and he is not allowed briefings.They now say he does not have the clearances to even READ, let alone posses, documents that HE wrote.Including menus, guest lists, travel itineraries from 4-6 years ago...not even private letters, communications, Christmas cards. Photo Albums? Really??
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What a cynical CYA story from a cynical yellow rag. Watching them justify and explain every changing excuse for that disgusting raid on President Trump and then they tell us those stories were just cover to get important documents from his possession.
Now we’re getting to the truth. We understand now. They were desperate to get damning evidence from him before he used it against them.
God I hope he has copies.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
john56 8/17/2022 12:43:36 PM (No. 1251047)
I thought Newsweak had gone to a "digital only" format.
My surprise when I was in the airport the other day and saw a newstand (gee, I remember when newstands had several racks of magazines and at least a half dozen newspapers, they've really gone downhill). And there was a copy of Newsweak!
With a totally despicable cover. President Trump, photoshopped into an orange prison jumpsuit, behind bars.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 8/17/2022 12:50:23 PM (No. 1251054)
'Hoarded' means what? Kept, privately?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
justavoter 8/17/2022 1:02:00 PM (No. 1251068)
So, the DOJ and deep state have now recovered the incriminating documents that prove their corruption.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
downnout 8/17/2022 1:27:36 PM (No. 1251095)
Here we go again with the “high level” (but unnamed) officials. Newsweak should rename their silly publication “Rumors”.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 8/17/2022 1:30:42 PM (No. 1251103)
Speculation is not news this is dumb and if you don't name the sources then I'm not interested in hearsay. It was a fishing trip by the FBI and the passports were taken on purpose.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
ronniethek 8/17/2022 1:41:07 PM (No. 1251121)
Right. It was the proof of the BIG LIE.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
dwa 8/17/2022 1:52:11 PM (No. 1251133)
Remember Trump has a lawsuit against Hillary, FBI members (current and past) over their actions in Russiagate. The DOJ asked the judge to substitute the DOJ for those named defendants, which the judge did. So we now have the DOJ, the defendant in the case, corruptly using its power for illegal discovery to know what Trump may have to prove his case.. That is the ultimate in corruption for DOJ, the FBI and the leadership.
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“Weaponize” — reveal the deep states abuse of power against him.
The raiders are the same clowns under investigation for abuse of power by Durham.
This entire thing was a pretext so they could poke and see his attorney client communication and what smoking guns he had.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Californian 8/17/2022 2:05:34 PM (No. 1251154)
In other words, the establishment raided Trump's document pile to protect themselves.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
singermom9 8/17/2022 2:12:56 PM (No. 1251163)
You REALLY think Trump packed those boxes himself?
THIS is what the dems are doing. Are you listening? (only 34 seconds) https://rumble.com/v1g4yz1-listen-to-every-word.html?mref=4pvd7&mc=b2gay&fbclid=IwAR3z9LHbb6gC-uXGvaIyxQOhyieRkWhrwBnuUB961DNSTKcpIgG3MWOapQA
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
BarryNo 8/17/2022 2:27:45 PM (No. 1251183)
He was cleared of all this, but for the public, they redacted a lot. If this Is true, it means he has unredacted copies and maybe evidence to point to the real culprits.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 8/17/2022 2:32:42 PM (No. 1251194)
He didn't pack theses boxes, and I'll bet they were in the location the Archive stipulated and requested additional lock, which was installed.
Bet they still had the seals on them too.
Someone is nervous about what he may have that will counter what's been told to the public.
Likely it relates the the civil lawsuit against Hillary that's working it's way through the Court, which I believe had a ruling on the very day they conducted the raid (maybe why they delayed the raid?).
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Namma 8/17/2022 3:10:56 PM (No. 1251237)
Well seeing that the Russia hoax is a hoax, one woukd think the fb of interrogation woukd have the original copies. After all the accusations had to be written down and published before anyone else heard the hoax.
So I woukd think the fun would have copies already
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
stablemoney 8/17/2022 3:35:52 PM (No. 1251251)
The FBI has no legal right to seek the documents described here.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
columba 8/17/2022 4:21:55 PM (No. 1251299)
Paranoia stars deep. Into your soul it will creep.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Joni Gal 8/17/2022 5:22:05 PM (No. 1251334)
#5. I agree!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
chillijilli 8/18/2022 12:27:02 PM (No. 1252214)
Anything about stolen "documents" is bogus. Paper copies are obsolete and nobody would be hoarding them. Think about it. Big deal if you are in possession of paper documents. They were long ago digitalized, rendering the older paper records obsolete. All the government would have to say is that when old reports were updated electronically, new information may have been added to the original papers, rendering the old papers inaccurate because of their age. If the FBI has honestly been searching YEARS for these documents, they should've look in their own data or of course there's always Hunter's laptop. Completely bogus story.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
JimBob 8/18/2022 3:47:44 PM (No. 1252465)
Newsweak + Anonymous Sources = Lie du Jour.
Notice how 'The Story' changes every couple of days, like some pre-teens trying to lie their way out of punishment, but their lie is not working, so they keep changing it, trying to find one that will work.
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Not the first place we have heard this… Russiagate and the other anti-Trump hoaxes. I hope he had other copies.