Scandal-plagued former President Donald Trump is currently neck deep in his infamous Manhattan Hush Money trial, which has unsurprisingly soaked up a large majority of the media’s attention over the last two weeks. However, it’s worth reminding American voters that the ex-president is still embroiled in multiple other criminal cases — including the notorious Mar-a-Lago stolen classified documents case that’s still raging against him, being spearheaded by Garland-appointed DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith.
Among all of the commotion surrounding his Hush Money trial, Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon — who is overseeing the criminal stolen documents case against the former president in the state of Florida — has just unsealed a trove of documents and information pertaining to the FBI’s overall investigation into the former president as well as specific information concerning the agency’s now-infamous search and seizure raid on his Palm Beach, FL, golf resort and post-White House personal residence in 2022.
The newly unsealed documents now reveal the identities of the FBI personnel who were involved in the Mar-a-Lago search and seizure raid, as well as details on how the raid played out. One document specifically revealed the operation’s nickname, “Plasmic Echo,” per reporting from Fox News.
This document reads:
This document contains information that is restricted to case participants. PLASMIC ECHO; Mishandling Classified or National Defense Information, Unknown Subject; Sensitive Investigation Matter.”
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A separate document shows where Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland gave his approval for the investigation into Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified government documents during his time as the sitting United States President.
According to Fox News, another unsealed document reveals that FBI agents breached a safe at Mar-a-Lago, seized documents from the safe, and took those materials back to D.C. The agents involved in the raid consisted of “four agents from the FBI WFO, one FBI Headquarters personnel, 25 agents from the FBI Miami Field Office, one DOJ Counterintelligence and Export Control Section attorney and one attorney from the United States Attorneys Office Southern District of Florida.”
“A search warrant, 22-mj-8332-BER, issued in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida on August 5, 2022, was executed at 1100 South Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach, Florida 33480 at 10:33 a.m. on August 8, 2022,” the document reads.
“Prior to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) team’s entry onto the MAL premises, FBI leadership informed and coordinated with local United States Secret service (USSS) leadership. Local USSS facilitated entry onto the premises, provided escort and access to various locations within, and posted USSS personnel in locations where the FBI team conducted searches.”
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