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FBI Director Christopher Wray allegedly had an FBI informant infiltrate former President Donald Trump’s home to spy on him and his associates.
The informant allegedly told his FBI superiors where Trump was storing various documents in a possible violation of the Presidential Records Act.
The raid on Mar-A-Lago was based mostly on the information that the FBI informant gave. They were able to identify what the classified documents were.
Two senior government officials told Newsweek that the raid was also deliberately timed to happen when Trump was gone from his home.
They said they tried to keep the raid low-profile, but one official mentioned that it was a “spectacular backfire.”
Newsweek reported:
On Monday at about 9 a.m. EDT, two dozen FBI agents and technicians showed up at Donald Trump’s Florida home to execute a search warrant to obtain any government-owned documents that might be in the possession of Trump but are required to be delivered to the Archives under the provisions of the 1978 Presidential Records Act. (In response to the Hillary Clinton email scandal, Trump himself signed a law in 2018 that made it a felony to remove and retain classified documents.)
The act establishes that presidential records are the property of the U.S. government and not a president’s private property. Put in place after Watergate to avoid the abuses of the Nixon administration, the law imposes strict penalties for failure to comply. “Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined” $2,000, up to three years in prison or “shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.”
Kimberley Guilfoyle is concerned that the FBI might have planted “listening devices” in Trump’s Florida home during the 9-hour raid.
“They didn’t allow anybody to supervise what they were doing, and they specifically requested to turn off the security cameras,” Guilfoyle, the fiancée of Donald Trump Jr., told Wednesday’s “Prime News” with Jenn Pellegrino.
“Why? Because they didn’t want to be caught with what they were doing. How do you know there weren’t listening devices planted or evidence planted there?”
“It’s something that has to be investigated and checked out, and we want to see the affidavit and what was their probable cause to be able to go in there and break into the president’s home.”
Despite the raid, Trump’s support only continues to grow.
Guilfoyle noted that his support is so great that the opposition is afraid.
“I campaigned and go all across the country with him, meeting everybody, and the support of the president is literally unprecedented,” she concluded.
“It’s more than 2016. It’s more than 2020.
“So these people, their worst living nightmare is President Trump back in the White House. Well, it’s about to happen.”
The details of the raid are still developing to this day.
