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reportedly involved federal agents spending most of the day at mar-a-lago was related to classified information that trump took with him when he departed the white house in january of 2021. an attorney for the former guy told nbc news that trump and his team had been, quote, cooperative with fbi and doj officials every step of the way, unquote, but then added that the bureau, quote, did conduct an unannounced raid and seized paper. the new york times reports that it wasn t the first time that agents visited trump s south florida estate. quote, the search came after an earlier visit this spring to mar-a-lago by federal agents including a justice department counterintelligence official to discuss materials that mr. trump had improperly taken with him when he left the white house. mr. trump was briefly present for that earlier visit as was at least one of his lawyers according to people familiar with the situation. both the fbi and the justice department have declined to ....
So that means their concerns about potential criminal activity of which there could be evidence at mar-a-lago persisted for months after that meeting despite the fact that people in trump s orbit have signaled that the tenor of that meeting was not particularly hostile or acrimonious. trump himself in his statement said that he thought this raid, quote, unquote raid was totally unnecessary and uncalled for. the trump people have been signaling that they think in their view or they argue in their view that they ve been cooperating, but that is extremely far afield from the views at fbi and doj. andrew weissman, i ask you this question, you know, the definition of cooperation would presumably have allowed this whole thing to be worked out over the course of the months that betsy s talking about. in your experience when people go to get warrants of this kind from a judge, this is not the ....
He suggested he might be a martyr, a victim of the deep state. if there s one truism to the trump presidency is that every day was fueled by grievance and a sense of victim hood, and that s happening again. with the statement last night from what we re hearing, the echoes from his allies, republicans in washington and around the country yesterday and again today suggesting that he was being unfairly signaled out, that he was a victim of a conspiracy and that this was a politically motivated search. now, the white house has made clear, i broke the news last night that they got no heads-up whatsoever about this raid. the white house press secretary reiterated that as well saying the president himself found out about it from watching television. so they are saying they re keeping their distance from this, but certainly former president trump and his team are going to try to play the victim card as much as they can going forward to try and swirl up the hornets nesz. asha i want to ask ....
Reportedly involved federal agents spending most of the day at mar-a-lago was related to classified information that trump took with him when he departed the white house in january of 2021. an attorney for the former guy told nbc news that trump and his team had been, quote, cooperative with fbi and doj officials every step of the way, unquote, but then added that the bureau, quote, did conduct an unannounced raid and seized paper. the new york times reports that it wasn t the first time that agents visited trump s south florida estate. quote, the search came after an earlier visit this spring to mar-a-lago by federal agents including a justice department counterintelligence official to discuss materials that mr. trump had improperly taken with him when he left the white house. mr. trump was briefly present for that earlier visit as was at least one of his lawyers according to people familiar with the situation. both the fbi and the justice department have declined to comment. it was ....
Motivated. trump s news flash came in the form of a typically lengthy, inaccurate, crazily punctuated and bs riddled statement, which we will not be reading with the sole exception of one delicious explanation, quote, they even broke into my safe. and one statement that in a rarity for donald trump was unequivocally true. quote, nothing like this has ever happened to a president of the united states before. but the very fact that a search warrant was issued and a raid was conducted can tell us a great deal about the state of the investigation, a probe that reportedly began earlier this year when the national archives asked the doj to investigate how classified information, some of it so sensitive that the information can t even be described ended up at trump s south florida club. as the new york times puts it, quote, the fbi would have needed to convince a judge that it had probable cause that a crime had been committed and that agents might find evidence at ....