It seems the FBI may have been tipped off by a Trump insider about documents still in Trump's possession.
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Key Facts
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The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek reported Thursday that the FBI’s raid on Mar-A-Lago came after a confidential source told investigators “there may be still more classified documents at the private club.”
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The raid took place because of White House documents that Trump brought back to Mar-A-Lago with him instead of turning over to the National Archives, Trump’s attorney Christina Bobb and son Eric Trump have confirmed, and 15 boxes of documents—that included classified information—were previously transported back to the Archives.
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Asked about the Journal report Thursday on CNN, former chief of staff Mick Mulvaney suggested whoever tipped off the FBI must have been “really close” to Trump, noting, “I didn’t even know there was a safe at Mar-a-Lago and I was the chief of staff for 15 months.”
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Mulvaney speculated there “probably … would be six or eight people who had that kind of information” about there being additional documents and where they would have been located, though he didn’t know who that could include.
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FBI agents took approximately 12 more boxes from Mar-A-Lago during Monday’s raid, according to Bobb, which the Journal reports are being stored at the FBI’s office in Miami.
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The reports of a Trump associate tipping off the FBI come as Axios and Rolling Stone have reported paranoia among Trump and his allies about whether someone has “flipped” by informing the FBI about the documents.
Read more:-
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/08/11/person-who-reportedly-tipped-off-fbi-to-mar-a-lago-documents-was-likely-very-close-to-trump-former-chief-of-staff-suggests/?sh=17c4a6771d7f
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Will be interesting to see if Trump objects to the search warrant being made public.
Garland says he moved to unseal Trump search warrant, defends DOJ from attacks
Garland said he “personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant” of Trump's Mar-a-Lago home. Trump's attorneys have until 3 p.m. Friday to object to the DOJ motion seeking to unseal the warrant.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-received-subpoena-fbi-search-mar-lago-home-rcna42693
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