The Post has learned that the search warrant used by the FBI to enter the palatial Palm Beach property focused solely on presidential records and evidence of classified information being stored there.
A source close to the former president expressed concern that FBI agents or DOJ lawyers conducting the search could have “planted stuff” because they would not allow Trump’s attorneys inside the 128-room building to observe the operation, which lasted more than nine hours.
The raid by over 30 plain clothes agents from the Southern District of Florida and the FBI’s Washington Field Office extended through the Trump family’s entire 3,000-square-foot private quarters, as well as to a separate office and safe, and a locked basement storage room in which 15 cardboard boxes of material from the White House were stored.
Feds arrived at 9 a.m. and didn’t leave until 6:30 p.m.
“ This machine is required to move 500 tons of earth/ ore which will be refined into one lithium car battery. It burns 900-1000 gallons of fuel in a 12 hour shift.
Lithium is refined from ore using sulfuric acid. The proposed lithium mine at Thacker Pass is estimated to require up to 75 semi loads of sulfuric acid a day! The acid does not turn into unicorn food like AOC believes.
A battery in an electric car, lets say an average Tesla, is made of 25 pounds of lithium, 60 pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds of cobalt, 200 pounds of copper, and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel, and plastic, etc…… averaging 750-1,000 pounds
of minerals, that had to be mined and processed into a battery that merely stores electricity….. Electricity which is generated by oil, gas, coal, nuclear, or water (and a tiny fraction of wind and solar)….
That is the truth, about the lie, of “green” energy.
There’s nothing green about the green new deal. You people better learn how to vote or this nonsense will continue to flow down on top of you from the throne of government you put these people on.”
Trump said in a message on his social media forum Truth Social that his home had been “raided, and occupied” and was “currently under siege.”
FBI agents were reportedly searching for classified documents that Trump allegedly brought with him from the White House to Mar-a-Lago after his presidency ended — which, if true, could be a violation of federal law.
The National Archives and Records Administration said it had found classified material in 15 boxes at the residence earlier this year and alerted the FBI. The agents executed a search warrant Monday to look for additional presidential records Trump may have relocated to his Florida estate.
“Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida is a “sad night for America,” according to Trump’s longtime friend and former attorney Rudy Giuliani.
On Monday, the FBI broke into a safe in Trump’s palatial home and reportedly searched for classified documents he allegedly brought with him from the White House to Mar-a-Lago after his presidency ended — which, if true, could be a violation of federal law.
Appearing on WABC Radio’s “The Rita Cosby Show” Monday night, the former New York City Mayor slammed the raid as “phony” and said it “goes way beyond politics.”
“It’s a very, very sad night for America, and for me personally, who has spent many years of my life in the justice department at the lowest and the highest levels and worked very closely with the FBI to put some of the worst criminals of the 20th century in jail,” Giuliani told host Rita Cosby.
Great interview, as always. VDH is predictably terrific but I’d like to offer a special shout out to Peter Robinson. He’s a masterful interviewer. One of the best I’ve ever seen. He’s so well read and so well prepared that he always steers the discussion in a productive and thought provoking direction. And he’s not afraid to ask the tough questions, always in the most gracious manner. Bravo! The program should be titled “The Uncommon Interviewer.”
I worked construction in NY for years, worked in Trumps building rebuilding a floor. As we sat down to eat Trump and a bunch of suits walked in looking around talking about plans. He saw us eating and APOLOGIZED for disturbing out lunch. They all left. 5 minutes later he came back with a sandwich from the deli alone, and sat with us on an upside down bucket and shot the shit with us. Just regular talking like a normal guy. One worker asked why he didn’t eat with the suits, he said although they all
New York has more troubles. Thousands of illegal criminals are being bused as we speak to the Big Apple. Most of them have records, longer than the cocaine lines once shared in Studio 54.
At Studio 54 there was one drug by far the most popular: cocaine. Coke was cool, everyone at the club was doing it, even celebrities.
Even border-crossers are too scared of the crime-riddled Big Apple.
Mayor Adams was on hand for the cameras Sunday to greet the city’s latest busload of migrants being dumped here from Texas — only to be stunned to learn that the vast majority had gotten off before they made it.
“We were led to believe about 40 people should have been on that bus. Only 14 got off,” Adams said at a 7 a.m. press conference at Midtown’s Port Authority Bus Terminal.
The mayor suggested that the most likely reason was “because of the fear that something was going to happen to them if they came to this location, people got off earlier.”
The asylum-seekers come from Texas, where Gov. Greg Abbott has been shipping them to Democratic regions.Fox News
Their numbers add to the 50 border-crossers who were already bussed to New York City on Friday. The buses are part of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s effort to push migrants into Democratic regions of the country to ease what he says is the Lone Star State’s “crisis caused” by the Biden administration’s “open border policies.’’
On Sunday, The Post caught Adams on video having a testy exchange with a woman involved in helping to get the handful of arrivals off the Texas bus.
It’s not clear what the dispute was about, but the mayor told the woman, “We’ve got to work together — we’re not on different sides here, we have to work together.’’ She abruptly walked off.
Abbott has vowed to continue sending them to New York, which he has called an “ideal destination” because of the city’s generous treatment of homeless people. He has also sent more than 6,100 to Washington, DC, since April, which local leaders say has led to crisis.
Former President Trump addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday.
“The proud patriots here today are the beating heart of the conservative movement,” Trump said after taking the stage to the stirrings of The Village People’s hit “Y.M.C.A “
“You are the loyal defenders of our heritage, culture, our Constitution and our God-given rights. You never stop fighting for America, and I will never ever stop fighting for you.”
Trump was frequently interrupted by raucous applause from the GOP activists who gathered for the CPAC conference in the Hilton Anatole’s Trinity Ballroom in Dallas.
In a nearly two hour address, the former president threw out hefty chunks of red meat, coming out in favor of stop-and-frisk policing and the death penalty for drug dealers — a punishment he said was used in China for such offenses.
Three ultra-MAGA candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump and largely opposed by establishment Republicans are poised to sweep Tuesday’s marquee GOP primary contests in Arizona,setting up general-election showdowns with more traditional Democratic rivals that will test whether the way to win a key swing state in 2022 is by channeling the animosities of the far right — or by trying to appeal to a broader coalition.
Shortly after midnight, the Associated Press called the GOP Senate primary for Blake Masters, an “anti-progressive” venture capitalist who was propelled to the front of a crowded field by at least $15 million in super-PAC funding from powerful Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, his longtime boss and mentor. On Election Day, Masters will face off against incumbent Democrat Mark Kelly in a race that will help determine control of the closely divided Senate.
The AP also called the GOP secretary of state primary for Mark Finchem, a state representative who was present at the U.S. Capitol during the attack on Jan. 6, 2021, and has previously identified himself as a member of the Oath Keepers militia.
In the Republican primary for governor, a third MAGA candidate, former Phoenix news anchor Kari Lake, was leading real estate developer Karrin Taylor Robson by more than 11,000 votes with 80% of precincts reporting.
“We won today 7 out of 10 Election Day votes,” Lake told her supporters Tuesday night, claiming — prematurely — that “there is no path to victory for my opponent and we won this race. Period.”
For all three election deniers, these displays of fealty were sufficient to snag Trump’s sought-after support, which he bestowed in person at a July 22 rally in Prescott Valley.
But the establishment lost Tuesday night in Arizona — and Trump seems headed for a hat trick. If Lake ultimately joins Finchem and Masters on the winner’s podium, they would cement a Trump sweep in the Grand Canyon State — and combine to form perhaps the most pro-MAGA slate of candidates anywhere in America.
Former President Donald Trump crowed on Wednesday that he is “22-0” after all of his endorsed candidates swept their primary elections in Ohio and Indiana.
”I think J.D. showed tremendous strength,” Trump told the outlet. “It was a great victory for everyone, but I am most happy for the Republican Party because we have great candidates. I think all of them will be winning in the fall.”
A spike in shootings and murders in July fueled a 31% increase in the city’s crime rate over the same month in 2021, the NYPD said Friday, continuing to fuel a hot-button political issue that has the mayor and governor at odds.
Shootings were up 13% in July 2022 to July 2021. The city recorded 178 shooting incidents last month, up from 157 it counted in July 2021.
July’s victims of gun murders include a security guard at a “Law & Order” set in Brooklyn, an 18-year-old allegedly killed by an off-duty city correction officer in the Bronx, and a 14-year-old who was visiting from New Jersey when he was shot in East Harlem.
The increased in murders and shooting incidents combined with spikes in robberies and thefts to boost the overall crime rate by 31% this July compared with July 2021.
Grand larcenies were up 41% in July 2022 compared to July 2021. Last month, police recorded 4,588 grand larcenies, which under New York law are thefts of cash or property worth more than $1,000. That was up by 1,326 from the 3,262 recorded in July 2021.
Robberies were up 37% in July 2022 compared to July 2021. Police counted 1730 robberies in July 2022, up by 469 from July 2021.
A 32 year-old man sitting in the back seat of a car parked on Sutphin Blvd. was pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital after he was shot in the neck and chest in Queens on Wednesday, July 6, 2022. (Theodore Parisienne/for New York Daily News)
Despite the bump in July, New York City’s murder rate is down 4% so far in 2022 compared to 2022. Police have recorded 253 slayings so far this year, compared with 264 in the first seven months of 2021.
Shooting incidents are down 9% so far this year, with 816 reported in 2022 compared with 894 at the same point in 2021.
But increases in other crimes have boosted the citywide crime rate year to date by 37%, police data shows.
“Everyone who lives, works and visits here deserves to be safe, and the members of the NYPD will tolerate nothing less,” Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said Friday.
“But we cannot do it alone,” Sewell said. “When violent criminals are willing to carry illegal guns on our streets and brazenly shoot at innocent people they must face real consequences.”
Police investigate a multiple shooting at a playground on E. 164th St. and Teller Ave. in the Bronx, on Monday, July 11, 2022. (Gardiner Anderson/for New York Daily News)
The Daily News Flash
Weekdays
Catch up on the day’s top five stories every weekday afternoon.
The news comes two days after Mayor Adams and the NYPD, in their strongest pushback yet against bail reform, highlighted at a news conference criminal suspects they called the “worst of the worst” — 10 repeat offenders with nearly 500 arrests among them who have been released repeatedly without bail.
Adams and the police blame the elimination of bail for misdemeanors and certain felonies that went into effect with the criminal justice reform laws in 2020.
The department also pointed out that 716 people have been linked to 30% of the 2,400 shootings in the city since the start of last year, suggesting that far too many have been released without bail in those and other incidents.
At the Wednesday news conference, Adams pushed for more amendments to the reforms — including allowing judges to weigh the likelihood suspects will commit another offense if they’re released with no bail.
But Albany politicians took different tacks in responding to the NYPD criticism.
Gov. Hochul called out judges and prosecutors for not following the law and declining to set bail in cases where recent changes make it possible. She said recent changes to give judges more authority to set bail for repeat offenders.
In the wordsof the not so greatMaxine Waters, “we will take him out tonight”, the people of West Virginia and Arizona, will take Manchin and Sinema out in 2024.For they are PURE SLEAZE.
These two are more interested in themselves rather than the good citizens of the United States.Both are double talking socialist slime.The people of the Great States of West Virginia and Arizona know where they are coming from. They represent the Suicide Bomber Squad, the socialist left and the Overthrow of the United States.
Remember, both of these, soon to be losers, are Joe Biden. They sold out the states of West Virginia and Arizona.
Manchin has derived 95% of his donations from outside interests. Bought and paid for by the likes of Soros and the Teachers Unions. What does that tell you? He is in lock-step with Communists. West Virginians can’t wait to get him packing. See you in two years.
Sinema is a past member of the Green Party;a socialist, bought and paid for by the left. Her record is 99% in line with the Squad.Arizona does not need another John McCain. A guy who hated Trump so much he voted down one bill after another that was to benefit the citizens of our Country.Sinema works for herself, speaks out three sides of her mouth. We will see her in two years, count on it.
Trump pledges to campaign against Manchin in West Virginia because of spending bill deal
Trump hits Sens. Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema for caving to fellow Democrats on spending bill
Former President Donald Trump on Friday pledged to campaign in West Virginia against Sen. Joe Manchin because of the Democrat’s $739 billion tax hike and climate change deal.
Trump said that Manchin and Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, who are both up for reelection in 2024, would pay a heavy political price for agreeing to back the deal after previously withholding their support.
What the happened to Manchin and Sinema, what the hell happened, where did this new philosophy come from,” Trump said during an address at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Texas. “I think if this deal passes, they will both lose their next election, I do believe that, West Virginia and Arizona will not stand for what they did to them.”
:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tronc/QZHJJXG33BFFTFE27T6FENIFGE.JPG)
:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tronc/7TSQ4DWQFFF53IBFGLNSAVVRP4.JPG)
Chuck Coty
3 years ago
1K