A newly unsealed copy of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit with fewer redactions shows how federal prosecutors grew suspicious of former President Trump and his attorneys in the weeks leading up to the August raid on the property.
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Let me give you a hint…
I’ll tell you what’s no longer under seal: Trump’s lower GI.
obtained a subpoena for footage from video surveillance cameras operated by the Trump Organization at Mar-a-Lago.
That June 24 subpoena demanded footage from Jan. 10 until the date of service.
I doubt mar-al-stinko retained video footage going that far back. Video is a space hog, it was probably a rotating storage system going back some weeks.
Pretty sure they just have a single Betamax tape labeled “Donald and Ivana Wedding”.
But when agents arrived at Mar-a-Lago in August, they purportedly found records in a search of both the office and other locations outside the storage room.
So TFG lied?
I’m so surprised.
“FPOTUS COUNSEL 1 further stated he was not advised there were any records in any private office space or other location in Mar-a-Lago,” the affidavit reads, referring to Corcoran.
But when agents arrived at Mar-a-Lago in August, they purportedly found records in a search of both the office and other locations outside the storage room.
Unlike Bobb, Corcoran appears not to have lawyered up and gone to ground. He’s still out there actively lawyerin’ for TFG and was photographed only yesterday among the various outdoor meetings in the rain at the Sterling VA golf course.
50-55 boxes. Hmmm. That’s more than the number of boxes we had when we moved back to Colorado from Madison, WI. Of course ours held different stuff–clothes, dishes, pots and pans, sporting goods but that’s a lot of boxes. It’s especially a lot of boxes to “forget about.”
I think it’s likelier to be titled, “spy-cam Ivanka master bath,” dated just after her final cosmetic surgery.
Do you know who the others in that meeting were?
Any clue as to why this further redacted document was made available, by whom and who made the further un-redactions? Also, how much CCTV camera footage did the FBI obtain from Mar-a-Loco, and covering which dates?
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Yeah no way he’s taping over that one.
One would think that those 50-55 boxes would have been noted when the moving vans were filled, and driven all that way from DC to MAL. He did pay for those to be delivered.
It was extensively written up on the intertubes yesterday, and discussed here.
And here is the 12 page filing -the government does not beat around the bush.
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