Search warrant executed

The FBI carried out a lawful search warrant on 8/8/22, at Mar-A-Lago, necessitated by Trump’s refusal to turn over highly-classified documents pertaining to nuclear capabilities; supposedly an informant close to the Mar-A-Lago residence & private club gave information on where precisely the extra 25 boxes of classified files, were being stored, which enabled DOJ to get a warrant. (FBI agents with a subpoena went to Mar-A-Lago in June, to retrieve top-secret govt-property, but Trump lied about having any more documents; 15 boxes were recovered in January). In normal Trumpian-style, Donald immediately came out on his website “Truth Social”, decrying his victimhood in a “Witch Hunt”, even claiming that FBI agents had surely planted evidence against him. LIES, LIES, LIES!

Records of nuclear weaponry, ours or others, are the MOST classified, top-secret docs, and cannot even be declassified by a U.S. president alone; it would have to be signed off by other govt-department officials; specific statutes govern the handling of classified information. Any other information that COULD be declassified by a current president, declassification would have to be properly recorded in accordance with U.S. law. I’m wondering what Trump may have done with this classified information in the last 18 months. Ironically Trump, when president, made ‘mishandling of classified information’ an offense punishable by 5 years, instead of the 1 year, the sentence held previously.

Trump allies, in the days following the search & seizure of our most sensitive secrets, have come out vehemently in Trump’s defense, blasting the FBI, calling this “an unprecedented search of a former president”, and in their fervor, were all but anointing Trump’s next 2024 run. They were demanding that DOJ, AG, Merrick Garland, make a statement to the nation telling us WHY this action was necessary, and to make public the search warrant, which Trump could have done at any point. Garland responded midweek, upholding the FBI, as honorable men & women, who constantly defend Americans from harm. In a chess-play extraordinaire, Garland, unsealed the ‘face of the search warrant’ & inventory receipts on 8/12. The ‘affidavit for probable cause’ was not unsealed at that time. Trump is now under investigation for violating ‘the Espionage Act’; each violation of which can incur a ten-year sentence.

The rise in domestic-violence threats & wild-rhetoric leads to attacks on Americans, such as the shootout on 8/11, with FBI agents and Ricky Shiffer, who shot at agents, and ended up dead, after posting on “Trump’s Truth Social site”, about killing FBI agents.

Trish Forsyth Voss