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A confidential human source told the FBI what documents former President Trump stored at his Mar-a-Lago resort and where to find them, according to reports citing government officials with knowledge of the FBI’s Monday raid on the compound.
Retired FBI Special Agent in Charge Michael Tabman claimed a confidential informant likely tipped off FBI about the documents and where they could be found inside Mar-a-Lago.
“I think somebody gave them information indicating that these documents are there,” Tabman told the Daily Mail, adding a hypothetical, “You have not been told the truth about their existence. You’re not getting them unless you come get them.”
“I think there was inside information – call it an informant if you want,” he said. “I believe either someone told them something or some other information was stumbled upon, which was kind of conclusive in their minds that they had to go now to get that or they’re not getting it.”
“You know, everything could disappear. You got evidence that you need to get before it disappears or it moves and you can’t see it anymore,” he added.
Separate DOJ insiders with “direct knowledge of the FBI’s deliberations” who were “granted anonymity in order to discuss sensitive matters,” confirmed that report to Newsweek on Wednesday.
Additionally, the two government officials said the FBI timed the raid to take place while Trump was not on the premises to “lower the profile of the event,” but their effort became a “spectacular backfire.”
“I know that there is much speculation out there that this is political persecution, but it is really the best and the worst of the bureaucracy in action,” the Justice official said.
“They wanted to punctuate the fact that this was a routine law enforcement action, stripped of any political overtones, and yet [they] got exactly the opposite.”
“They were seeking to avoid any media circus,” the second source said. “So even though everything made sense bureaucratically and the FBI feared that the documents might be destroyed, they also created the very firestorm they sought to avoid, in ignoring the fallout.”
As we reported, Trump suggested the FBI prevented his lawyers from observing their raid because they could have been “planting” evidence.
“Everyone was asked to leave the premises, they wanted to be left alone, without any witnesses to see what they were doing, taking or, hopefully not, ‘planting,’” Trump said in a statement. “Why did they STRONGLY insist on having nobody watching them, everybody out? Obama and Clinton were never ‘raided,’ despite big disputes!”
Additionally, a Trump insider claimed a “disloyal employee” could have planted certain classified documents in Mar-a-Lago to ensure the FBI didn’t leave the premises “empty handed.”
“As if Trump were stupid enough to do what they said he did. The only thing that could have happened is that a disloyal aid planted it in a box that was moved out [of the White House] in January of 2021,” the source told Politicalite.
“They wouldn’t have gone in without expecting a result,” they added.
Interestingly, journalist Paul Sperry reported – just before he was inexplicably suspended on Twitter Tuesday – that the FBI raid may have been a coverup related to the Spygate scandal surrounding the Russia collusion hoax.
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