EXCLUSIVE: new face of election integrity lays out November game plan
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Eric Trump, son of former President Donald Trump, disclosed new details Wednesday about the FBI's raid on Mar-a-Lago.
Speaking with the Daily Mail, Eric Trump revealed that FBI agents initially refused to show Trump's attorneys a copy of the search warrant that authorized them to raid Mar-a-Lago for allegedly classified documents that were purportedly being stored at the south Florida resort.
According to Eric, FBI agents forced Trump attorney Christina Bobb to wait at the end of the Mar-a-Lago driveway while FBI agents searched the property.
"There's 30 agents there," Eric recalled. "They told our lawyer, 'You have to leave the property right now. Turn off all security cameras.'
"They would not give her the search warrant, so they showed it to her from about 10 feet away," Eric alleged. "They would not give her a copy of the search warrant."
Eric said that Mar-a-Lago staff refused to comply with the demand to shut off surveillance cameras. Thus, Eric alleged, there is footage showing FBI agents searching areas of the property they "shouldn't have been."
Bobb has corroborated Eric Trump's claims.
She explained in an interview on Tuesday that FBI agents initially refused to show her the search warrant, but they eventually did so. However, investigators did not disclose the probable cause that led a federal magistrate judge to approve the warrant.
Still, Bobb described the warrant as "thin" and suggested federal authorities used the raid for nefarious purposes.
"I think this is clearly a situation where they're looking for a way that they can easily prosecute President Trump," Bobb claimed. "They want to do it under a national security-type guise because they can hide things from the public and they can say, 'Oh, we can't tell you. We can't give you the details because it's confidential information, subject to national security concerns, so we can't tell you, but we're just going to prosecute [Trump]."
Speculation is running rampant because the Justice Department has refused to speak publicly about the raid. The narrative is thus being steered by law enforcement leaks.
One DOJ source who spoke to Newsweek, for example, described the raid as a "spectacular backfire," because the FBI hoped for it to be low-key, but instead it has energized Republicans and triggered accusations of a weaponized Justice Department.
Law enforcement sources and an attorney for former President Donald Trump are making eyebrow-raising accusations as more details about the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago are sifted through the media.
The New York Post reported Tuesday the purpose of the raid was to retrieve "presidential records and evidence of classified information being stored there."
Sources further alleged that FBI agents barred Trump's attorneys — who arrived at Mar-a-Lago shortly after the raid began — from witnessing the search, which is unusual. Once a judge approves a search warrant, authorities have the ability to execute the warrant without consent from the person whose property is being searched, thus attorneys or the person being searched are typically allowed to witness the search.
Shockingly, sources even alleged FBI agents demanded surveillance cameras be switched off, but Trump's employees did not comply with the request.
After searching Trump's property for nearly 10 hours, the FBI removed boxes of documents and personal mementos that Trump collected during his presidency. It is not clear what other items the FBI confiscated, the Post reported.
However, sources told the Post that FBI agents searched every room — including Melania Trump's wardrobe — and repeatedly boasted to Trump's lawyers, "We have full access to everything. We can go everywhere."
Secret Services agents who are stationed at Mar-a-Lago reportedly granted the FBI access to the property after likely receiving instructions from U.S. Secret Service attorneys.
The Washington Post reported Tuesday that a Trump lawyer confirmed the FBI confiscated about 12 boxes of documents from a basement room. The documents were reportedly taken from the same room that FBI investigators, according to CNN, had already inspected in June.
Trump attorney Christina Bobb — one of the attorneys who responded to Mar-a-Lago after the FBI arrived — confirmed that agents were looking for documents in compliance with the Presidential Records Act and allegedly classified documents.
She also described the warrant as "thin" and explained that she does not yet know the probable cause for the warrant because the affidavit remains sealed.
\u201casked on Real America's Voice what the search warrant said, Trump attorney Christina Bobb hems and haws but ultimately says it had to do with the Presidential Records Act and classified documents\u201d— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1660075221
In another interview, Bobb suggested the search is related to other matters and the DOJ's purported attempts to prosecute Trump.
"I think this is clearly a situation where they're looking for a way that they can easily prosecute President Trump," Bobb claimed. "They want to do it under a national security-type guise because they can hide things from the public and they can say, 'Oh, we can't tell you. We can't give you the details because it's confidential information, subject to national security concerns, so we can't tell you, but we're just going to prosecute [Trump].
"They're trying to shield what they're doing," she charged.
Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who was fired under the Trump administration, agrees the aggressive nature of the raid suggests it was about something more than documents.
"This is such a bold, such a disruptive, such an aggressive move," McCabe said on CNN. "The idea they would do this simply because they weren’t getting the sort of compliance they were looking for out of securing the room with the documents, things like that, seems really unimaginable to me. It seems like they must have — I hope they have more than just that."