According to bombshell and frankly disturbing reporting from The Washington Post, some agents within the Federal Bureau of Investigation desperately wanted to shut down the explosive Trump stolen document probe before it ever had a chance to even lift off the ground, as they were “afraid” that following through with the search and seizure warrant raid against the ex-president’s Mar-a-Lago resort turned post-White House home would seal their fates as political targets of the scandal-ridden, disgraced former president.
WaPo was first to break the explosive news, revealing that this group of reluctant FBI agents vehemently argued to their superiors to shut down the Trump document probe entirely, after a claim from Donald’s legal team last June, in which they swore to have conducted a “diligent” search of the disgraced ex-president’s Palm Beach property for any additional classified, top-secret documents that had been requested by the federal government but not yet turned over.
Justice Department prosecutors, however, weren’t buying what the Trump legal team was trying to sell here. DOJ officials countered with extensive probable cause that led them to believe that Trump’s attorneys were not being entirely truthful in their claims that they had turned over all of the classified documents in existence at Mar-a-Lago. Prosecutors maintained probable cause evidence that many, many more materials remained at the Palm Beach estate and, as such, called on the FBI to execute a search and seizure warrant raid to collect any remaining materials — which turned out to be a lot.
But despite the mountain of evidence and probable cause against the former president, FBI agents pushed back against the DOJ search warrant order and expressed their reluctance to actually follow through with it.
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“They also heard from top FBI officials that some agents were simply afraid: They worried taking aggressive steps investigating Trump could blemish or even end their careers,” the new report reveals.
Ultimately, FBI agents did follow through with that Mar-a-Lago search and the DOJ’s concerns were more than validated in the end, as a literal trove of boxes, packed full of classified government documents and materials, was discovered and seized from the former president’s resort, including highly-vulnerable government secrets, including but not limited to information pertaining to the nuclear weapons program of a foreign nation.
Read the full, deep-dive report from The Washington Post here.
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