Re: the informant

[OneGrassRoot]

We're all speculating, something we do quite well on message boards...lol.

Ever since learning about the June subpoena of the surveillance footage outside the area of MAL where docs were being stored, that seems to be a pivotal event in the timeline. Something prompted that move and something discovered seemed to really get the ball rolling toward this past week's FBI visit.

Does anyone know if Secret Service would be tasked with all security measures, including monitoring cameras at MAL, or would that be something MAL pays for separately via regular employees? Either way, I think someone doing that job played a key role in this escalating.

[H2O Man]

1. Recommended.

I think it could be a SS agent. Or one of his new lawyers. Or Ivanka.

Then again, it could be more than one person, though one did the affidavit. Could be a small group, like the infamous Deep Throat.

[Jersey Devil]

2. I don't think there was an informant

The feds went to MAL in June with a subpoena. They negotiated with TFG's lawyers, who returned a bunch of records and presumably told the feds the rest belonged to Trump as his personal documents. Then when they matched up the docs returned to the records that were missing they saw that quite a few were still missing. They knew Trump kept the docs in his basement and told him to put a better lock on the door, probably suspecting that some of the "personal" docs were govt property and maybe classified. After asking for the rest of the docs and being told to get lost the feds lost patience and thus the search warrant.

Why would they ask him to install a lock if they didn't suspect he was holding back docs?

[SheltieLover]

3. K&R!

[Nevilledog]

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