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Why the FBI needs to search Trump's Bedminister golf course
I suspect that Bedminster will be searched after the midterms. There is too much evidence that TFG has additional documents and there are pictures of TFG's staff loading boxes of something on a trip from Mar-a-Logo to Bedminster. I agree with the apparent decision of the DOJ to hold off on a search until after the midterms but Bedminster and Trump Towner must be searched.
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https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/why-fbi-needs-search-trump-s-bedminister-golf-course-n1299431?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma
Former President Donald Trump and his attorneys promised in June that, for real, he had handed over all the White House documents the federal government had demanded be returned. Weeks later, the FBI recovered thousands of documents from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate — and it appears now that the lying from Trump hasn’t stopped.
NBC News reported Friday that the Justice Department still isn’t convinced Trump has forked over all the documents he packed away when leaving Washington. If that’s the case and Trump isn’t storing them at Mar-a-Lago, there are only a few options for where else they might be. It’s time, then, for the FBI to come knocking again — particularly at Trump’s Bedminster golf course in New Jersey.
Top counterintelligence official Jay Bratt recently communicated the Justice Department’s beliefs to Trump’s team, NBC News reported. The New York Times, which first reported the Justice Department’s suspicions Thursday, noted that Trump’s lawyers were divided over how to respond to the insinuation that their client is still being less than honest with the government.
After Bratt’s warning, Trump initially agreed to a plan from attorney Chris Kise, who “suggested hiring a forensic firm to search for additional documents.” But Kise was outmaneuvered by more combative lawyers in Trump’s circle, who play better to Trump’s (often self-destructive) instinct to fight.
His lawyers have argued in court since the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago that the “legally unsupported raid” (as they deem it) was unnecessary given Trump’s cooperation with the investigation. But that cooperation, as the Justice Department has laid out in numerous filings, was spotty at best. Trump reportedly pushed back throughout the process, at times referring to the documents as “mine.” The January transfer of 15 boxes from Mar-a-Lago to the National Archives and Records Administration took almost a year to facilitate.......
Whatever the reason for Bratt’s warning, it’s clear that the Justice Department needs to move quickly to ensure the former president isn’t playing a never-ending shell game. Two other main properties could be used to keep documents away from the FBI. One, his office in Manhattan, seems unlikely, given that it could be searched as part of two separate investigations into Trump’s businesses. But Bedminster? That seems like a much stronger possibility, based on Trump’s habit of decamping there during the summer. The golf course has been the subject of speculation for weeks now, based on video recorded days after the National Archives first reached out to Trump to say some documents were still missing. In the video, Trump is boarding a plane to Bedminster with several of the type of boxes used to store paperwork onboard.
NBC News reported Friday that the Justice Department still isn’t convinced Trump has forked over all the documents he packed away when leaving Washington. If that’s the case and Trump isn’t storing them at Mar-a-Lago, there are only a few options for where else they might be. It’s time, then, for the FBI to come knocking again — particularly at Trump’s Bedminster golf course in New Jersey.
Top counterintelligence official Jay Bratt recently communicated the Justice Department’s beliefs to Trump’s team, NBC News reported. The New York Times, which first reported the Justice Department’s suspicions Thursday, noted that Trump’s lawyers were divided over how to respond to the insinuation that their client is still being less than honest with the government.
After Bratt’s warning, Trump initially agreed to a plan from attorney Chris Kise, who “suggested hiring a forensic firm to search for additional documents.” But Kise was outmaneuvered by more combative lawyers in Trump’s circle, who play better to Trump’s (often self-destructive) instinct to fight.
His lawyers have argued in court since the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago that the “legally unsupported raid” (as they deem it) was unnecessary given Trump’s cooperation with the investigation. But that cooperation, as the Justice Department has laid out in numerous filings, was spotty at best. Trump reportedly pushed back throughout the process, at times referring to the documents as “mine.” The January transfer of 15 boxes from Mar-a-Lago to the National Archives and Records Administration took almost a year to facilitate.......
Whatever the reason for Bratt’s warning, it’s clear that the Justice Department needs to move quickly to ensure the former president isn’t playing a never-ending shell game. Two other main properties could be used to keep documents away from the FBI. One, his office in Manhattan, seems unlikely, given that it could be searched as part of two separate investigations into Trump’s businesses. But Bedminster? That seems like a much stronger possibility, based on Trump’s habit of decamping there during the summer. The golf course has been the subject of speculation for weeks now, based on video recorded days after the National Archives first reached out to Trump to say some documents were still missing. In the video, Trump is boarding a plane to Bedminster with several of the type of boxes used to store paperwork onboard.
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They need to keep an eye on Ivana's grave, too. I'm sorry, but we know there is no bottom to this man's evil. We've all noticed this...why did it take 10 men to carry the coffin that supposedly contained the ashes of a (maybe) 135 pound woman? Thousands of pieces of paper on the other hand...
