The FBI Mar-A-Lago Search. A Timeline Clears Some Things Up

When the FBI executed a search warrant on Trump’s personal residence on Monday, it was a total shock. Mainly because the FBI kept it under wraps, it fell to Traitor Tot to release the news, replete with bullshit for his own gain.

At the beginning, nobody even knew for sure what the FBI was looking for, or removed. But in the last week, thanks to gonzo investigative reporting, and the DOJ release of the search warrant and removal inventory, the picture is starting to evolve and sharpen.

But the problem is that the reporting is coming out all over the place, with nothing to tie it together. And since I have all of this time on my hands, I thought I would try to provide a simple timeline to try to put the information into something at least approaching chronological order. Here we go;

• On January 20th, 2021 Trump leaves the White House for the last time, laden down with boxes of documents covered by the Presidential Records Act. This despite being warned by both his National Security Advisor, as well as the National archives not to do so. He puts them in a storage locker in the basement with a padlock on it
• In doing their transition inventory, the National Archives quickly discovers that a multitude of boxes are missing. It doesn’t take long to figure out where it is, and who has it. The Archives contacts Trump’s lawyers to set up the process for their return
• This is when Trump’s eventual initial defense is proven to be bullshit. When contacted, Trump and his lawyers start arguing over the contents of the boxes, and Trump’s right to them, and the tortuous process for their return. Recall that Trump’s initial defense to the search was that the FBI planted the boes so that could discover and confiscate them. Ummm, who the hell spends months arguing over a bunch of boxes you don’t even possess?
• In December or January, Trump finally returns 12 boxes of documents to the National Archives, claiming that’s everything. An Archives inventory on receipt shows that a considerable amount of paperwork is still missing. The Archives requests that the DOJ open a national security investigation into Trump’s possession of the documents
• The DOJ opens the investigation, and contacts Trump’s lawyers again. Despite having told the Archives that everything had been returned, Trump’s lawyers start arguing over Trump’s absolute right to possess them. And for the first time claim that Trump had declassified them, so they were his. The negotiations drag on
• The DOJ goes to a federal grand jury and obtains a subpoena requiring the return of all documents. Trump is duly served with the subpoena, and accepts it. He promptly ignores the return date on the subpoena, and his lawyers go back to arguing for Trump’s absolute right to continue to possess the documents
• On or about June 14th, a team of FBI agents shows up in Mar-A-Lago to inspect the security of the area where the documents are being stored. They are granted access, and at one point Trump himself comes down to engage with the agents. The agents notice that there is a security cam over the entrance, pointed at the storage locker door. They are shown the door, lock, and the boxes of documents being stored inside. They tell Trump to add another, more secure lock, and leave. Trump installs the new lock in compliance
• This is critical, because in my estimation, it is the origin of the now infamous Mole in Trump’s inner circle story. In the days following the FBI visit, Trump employees go to the storage locker, open it, and remove several boxes of documents, taking them who knows where. Someone with that knowledge contacts the FBI and informs them of the removal of the boxes. This puts everything into a much newer, more critical light
• The DOJ goes back to another federal grand jury and obtains another subpoena requiring Trump to turn over the video tapes for the camera pointed at the locker door. Lo and behold, Trump meekly complies. And wouldn’t you know it? Trump is so fucking stupid that he didn’t even bother to turn off the camera before his minions removed the boxes. The FBI can now confirm that several boxes of documents are now no longer in an even marginally secure location. Which boxes and what documents are unknown
• This knowledge that possibly top secret documents may well no longer be secure in a location visited daily by hundreds, if not thousands of guess, including foreign nationals, seals the deal. The DOJ looks into possible federal criminal violations, pack the affidavit with enough information to make it bulletproof when going up against a former President,

There you have it. Full Disclosure. This may not be a complete timeline, but it contains all of the information that I could remember, and independently confirm via research. And when you look at it in more or less chronological order, the actions of the National Archives, DOJ, and FBI start to make more sense.

When the National Archives realized that a significant amount of documents were missing, it took time to confirm that there may have been secure documents of various levels of classification. The simplest and most logical solution, especially for a government agency was to take the least intrusive road and negotiate.

Likewise, when the issue was handed over to the DOJ, the preferred method was still to seek the least intrusive solution possible. It was only after the FBI was able to confirm that presumably secure documents were quite possibly not in an even semi-secure location, that it forced their hands to take drastic measures to retrieve them.

One last thing before I take my leave of you for the evening. I have previously taken great glee in referring to Trump and his inept criminal mob as The Gang That Couldn’t shit Straight. I don’t think I can do that anymore. Breslin’s book was hysterical, and the movie was pretty good too. But these moronic idjits are so inept that no Hollywood producer would touch a dog script like this with a 10′ cattle prod. These lunkheads are in a league of their own. And too stupid to take seriously.