The FBI has an informant inside former President Donald Trump’s inner circle, an insider reportedly told Newsweek on Wednesday.
But what’s even more shocking: The Feds thought they could keep a 30-agent raid of the former president’s private residence “low-key” and out of the headlines.
According to the report, FBI Director Christopher Wray and others didn’t think it would look like political persecution to raid and seize documents and property from inside a conservative politician’s home on behalf of the National Archives.
That’s why the raid was timed to happen when Trump wasn’t home, the source said.
“What a spectacular backfire,” Newsweek’s source inside the Justice Department reportedly said. “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. 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,” says the second source, a senior intelligence official reportedly 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.”
Trump’s lawyer went on Fox News to blast the FBI search of Trump’s residence late Tuesday.
“Our country should be terrified,” attorney Alina Habba told Fox News’ Jesse Waters. “I am terrified.”
She called the raid a political stunt meant to stop Trump’s 2024 presidential ambitions.
“If he wasn’t ahead in the polls, this wouldn’t be happening,” Habba said.
Trump attorney Alina Habba: "Our country should be terrified—I am terrified." pic.twitter.com/0dQuGBoVtI
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) August 9, 2022
Trump attorney Alina Habba: "There is more than people know that you'll be hearing … If he wasn't ahead in the polls, this wouldn't be happening." pic.twitter.com/xYXRjjLa5o
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) August 9, 2022
“This unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate,” Trump said in a statement. The raid was “prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for President in 2024.”
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