Lower the profile
Someone ratted the trumpster out.
The raid on Mar-a-Lago was based largely on information from an FBI confidential human source, one who was able to identify what classified documents former President Trump was still hiding and even the location of those documents, two senior government officials told Newsweek.
That person had better go far away and hunker way down.
The officials, who have direct knowledge of the FBI’s deliberations and were granted anonymity in order to discuss sensitive matters, said the raid of Donald Trump’s Florida residence was deliberately timed to occur when the former president was away.
Well duh. Nobody wants to spend time with the trumpster for the fun of it.
FBI decision-makers in Washington and Miami thought that denying the former president a photo opportunity or a platform from which to grandstand (or to attempt to thwart the raid) would lower the profile of the event, says one of the sources, a senior Justice Department official who is a 30-year veteran of the FBI.
And knows an asshole when he sees one.
Both senior government officials say the raid was scheduled with no political motive, the FBI solely intent on recovering highly classified documents that were illegally removed from the White House.
This is one of a thousand reasons it’s bad to have a criminal as a head of state. Nothing you do to or about or around the criminal is going to be seen as “with no political motive.” That ship sailed when the criminal decided to go into politics. It’s not the FBI’s fault that searching Trump’s safe is being called political: that’s how Trump set things up.
On Monday at about 10 a.m. EST, two dozen FBI agents and technicians showed up at Donald Trump’s Florida home to execute a search warrant to obtain any government-owned documents that might be in the possession of Trump but are required to be delivered to the Archives under the provisions of the 1978 Presidential Records Act. (In response to the Hillary Clinton email scandal, Trump himself signed a law in 2018 that made it a felony to remove and retain classified documents.)
So we know Trump has committed multiple felonies.
This is somewhat OT, as it doesn’t affect the points for which you cited it, but that Newsweek article should be taken with a grain of salt. The author does mostly opinion pieces from a conservative slant, with the occasional news article based on conservative-leaning sources. And the two sources cited in that article both seem like they’re trying to snipe at the rest of DOJ, with comments about how DOJ supposedly didn’t anticipate the political backlash.
Ah, thank you, I didn’t know that. And yes, all that “Haha they thought it wouldn’t be a big deal” seemed peculiar to me.