Breitbart reports: Donald Trump’s legal team demolished the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) media spin that denied having the former president’s passports in their possession following the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago last week.
On Monday, former President Trump claimed on his social media site TruthSocial that the FBI “stole” his passports during the raid that shook the political world last week. “In the raid by the FBI of Mar-a-Lago, they stole my three Passports (one expired), along with everything else,” he said. “This is an assault on a political opponent at a level never seen before in our Country. Third World!”
As Breitbart News noted, the passports were “not independently itemized on the FBI’s property receipt of the 28 inventory items federal agents seized.”
“The warrant, which Attorney General Merrick Garland says he approved and was signed by Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, did not state that they could take Trump’s passport,” the report noted. “Typically, the government needs a separate court order to seize someone’s passport, even temporarily.”
“According to a DOJ official, the FBI is NOT in possession of former President Trump’s passports. Trump had accused the FBI of stealing his three passports during the search of his Mar-a-Lago home,” O’Donnell announced on Monday.
Shortly after Norah’s post, Taylor Budowich, the former president’s communications director, shared an email from Jay Bratt, the top counterintelligence official in the Justice Department’s national security division, confirming that three passports were seized in the raid and that they would be returned to the former president soon.
“We have learned that the filter agents seized three passports belonging to President Trump, two expired and one being his active diplomatic passport. We are returning them, and they will be ready for pick up at WFO at 2 PM today,” the email to Trump’s attorneys read.
Norah O’Donnell amended her initial statement in light of the new information.
Speaking to Fox News on Monday, Donald Trump warned about the “tremendous anger” brewing in the country following the raid on his private residence.
“There has never been a time like this where law enforcement has been used to break into the house of a former president of the United States, and there is tremendous anger in the country—at a level that has never been seen before, other than during very perilous times,” Trump said.
Who cares what this megalomaniac has to burp? He’s done, finished. We have to refocus.
@Pence etc:
Tell that to the Dems, Biden, the DoJ, the FBI…they are the maniacs keeping Pres. Trump in the forefront of the news.
Stop it. This is not about Trump. This is about the politicization of DOJ. This is about the obsession of the Democrats y”sh that Trump is a criminal. They have gotten things horribly backwards, and they began this before the 2016 election. They decided that Trump is a criminal, and he was convicted before anything began. All they needed to do was find the crime. So they invested all their efforts, abandoning their real jobs, to find something dirty. Well, they did not. So they fabricated some stuff. And they finally got caught. So they keep looking for other things. But no one, not the DOJ, the FBI, or the wretched media will look at the Bidens, the Harris’, or the Pelosis. And we already have evidence that is damning that wasn’t fabricated. I am no fan of Trump. I enjoyed the prosperity he brought to America and Israel. I was disgusted by his ugly tweets. But I will tolerate his tweets far more than the destruction of our government, our independence, and our safety that the current administration is inflicting on us.
Boy will you be in a surprise when the EBS will launch.
Why would you choose as president those who were coronavirused for their villainous crimes against humanity?
Trump was coronavised on Feb 17 2021. He’s long gone.
Would you feel the same way if they seized your passport illegally or DeSantis’s or any other American Citizens?
It’s not who is complaining but the fact that it was illegal that should bother everyone.