FBI Searched Trump Mansion for Nuke Secrets

Merrick Garland, head of the Justice Department and the main target of Trump's wrath, made a move this Thursday to bring to light the legal authorization that led the FBI to search for secret papers at Donald Trump's mansion in Florida.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
14 August 2022 Sunday 14:36
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FBI Searched Trump Mansion for Nuke Secrets

Merrick Garland, head of the Justice Department and the main target of Trump's wrath, made a move this Thursday to bring to light the legal authorization that led the FBI to search for secret papers at Donald Trump's mansion in Florida. This material, to which the description of highly classified programs is applied, would include documents related to nuclear weapons.

This was announced on Thursday night by the website of The Washington Post, citing sources familiar with the investigation. According to this advance, experts in classified information pointed out that this unprecedented investigation of a former president of the United States underlines the deep concern of government officials about the type of documents they thought could be located in Mar-a-Lago and the potential danger if they fell. in the wrong hands.

The Post indicated that its sources did not offer additional details regarding what type of information the agents were after, if this involved weapons belonging to the United States or to other nations. They also did not specify whether these documents were recovered at the entrance and registration.

In his appearance, after three days of strong political pressure, with the Republicans embracing conspiracy theories of a persecution of Trump, encouraged by himself; Attorney General Garland noted that he approved the request to require the judge to carry out this search, after the failure of less intrusive attempts. Although it did not offer data on the core of the matter, The New York Times clarified that it was papers on "special access programs", a designation that is reserved for extremely sensitive operations carried out by the US outside its borders.

Authorities had expressed concern, ever since this news, that these highly classified documents located in Trump's offices would make his efforts to prevent foreign adversaries from acquiring them vulnerable.

Nuclear weapons material is especially sensitive and generally restricted to a small group of government officials, experts said. Revealing details regarding US weapons offers an intelligence map to adversaries who want to equip themselves with mechanisms to counteract these systems. Other countries could see the exposure of their nuclear secrets as a threat.

Garland explained in his appearance of just over two minutes, in which he did not accept questions because it is an ongoing investigation, that the Department "did not take lightly" the decision to obtain the entry and search warrant. And he argued that he had decided to break his silence because it was Trump himself who made the operation known, who also had a copy of that order.

The former president has dedicated himself to playing the victim and encouraging violence with his rhetoric, but the content of that document has been kept quiet. Now the ball is in his court.

The attorney general appealed “to the surrounding circumstances”, a euphemism to describe the attack, with serious threats, that his department and the FBI have received. He also alluded to "substantial public interest in the matter." In the petition to the judge to lift the secret, "the public's clear and powerful interest in understanding what happened" is insisted on, a circumstance that has had a lot of weight in favor of dissemination.

"Defending the rule of law means applying the law uniformly, without fear or favoritism," he stressed. "Under my watch, this is precisely what the Justice Department is doing," she reiterated.

The request includes the search warrant and the inventory of the items recovered in the entry made on Monday. Although the inventory given to the former president does not reveal details about specific papers, it does refer to a collection of sensitive documents. The Times clarified that some Trump aides were choosing to oppose the department's request, a decision that could delay or block the release of the judicial material. But Trump assured on his social network that he would not object, encouraged the publication and continued to maintain that the entire operation is partisan.

Judge Bruce Reinhart, of the Florida Southern District Court that approved the registration, ordered the Justice Department to send a copy of the request to Trump's legal team and gave a deadline until three in the afternoon this Friday for Let him know if the former president opposes that broadcast.

On the other hand, Justice does not seek for the judge to make public the affidavit or argumentation of the matter, a much longer text than the other two in which the case is related, with much more information regarding the conduct of the former presidents. It is also believed that it is in this document that the name of the informant from Trump's entourage who collaborated in locating more papers, which were hidden, is given. This attempt to hide papers is what convinced investigators that the former president and his team were not to be trusted.