Not wanting to put too much credibility behind any Newsweek report; however, the claims within the article mirror what we have suspected all along. [Article Here]
Essentially, the nub of the article states the DOJ claim to “retrieve federal documents” was a cover story so the FBI could retrieve evidence Trump took from DC showing his Russiagate targeting. This is called “throwing a bag over it.”
Newsweek – The FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago last Monday was specifically intended to recover Donald Trump’s personal “stash” of hidden documents, two high-level U.S. intelligence officials tell Newsweek.
To justify the unprecedented raid on a former president’s residence and protect the source who revealed the existence of Trump’s private hoard, agents went into Trump’s residence on the pretext that they were seeking all government documents, says one official who has been involved in the investigation. But the true target was this private stash, which Justice Department officials feared Donald Trump might weaponize.
“They collected everything that rightfully belonged to the U.S. government but the true target was these documents that Trump had been collecting since early in his administration,” says the source, who was granted anonymity to discuss sensitive issues.
The sought-after documents deal with a variety of intelligence matters of interest to the former president, the officials suggest—including material that Trump apparently thought would exonerate him of any claims of Russian collusion in 2016 or any other election-related charges. (read more)
In a lengthy four-part series, what is described in the Newsweek article essentially tracks with our own review.
In Part One we outlined the background of the modern Deep State {Go Deep}. In Part Two we outlined the specifics of how President Trump was targeted by political operatives using tools created by the DC system {Go Deep}. In Part Three we outlined how and why President Trump was blocked from releasing documents {Go Deep}. In Part Four we outlined the specifics of what documents likely existed in Mar-a-Lago {Go Deep}.
Take out the leftist slant intended to make President Trump look like he did something wrong, and the Newsweek article sounds mostly accurate.
[ READ CTH PERSPECTIVE HERE ]
Newsweek still exists?
It’s like an online pamphlet or something.
the jehova’s witnesses of journalism
Probably not as plagiarism is a sin akin to lying cheating or stealing.
I saw one in a hospital waiting room.
It is about six pages long now.
The local grocery store advertisement insert for their weekly on sale specials that comes out in the newspaper is longer.
It comes on a cardboard tube with about 300 square pull-off sheets per roll.
News-weak was purchased for 1 $ USD by a CCP cutout.
Oddly, their content was unaffected.
It should change it’s name to NewsWEAK!
So in summary, the raid was political.
It’s time to shut down the FBI.
Yep, totally in agreement. Now, is the quickest way to defang the FBI to “defund” it? Possibly.
stop payroll.
Some 7th floors would wotk pto bono on noveau-communist
priciples” ? Comey’s nom de plume was “Reinholf Neighbut ” !
And when did they stop voting for Gus Hall ?Ha Ha
Way overdue. Defund. Bulldoze the DC headquarters. Salt the earth.
Then raise a monument. Evil was here.
Just do some research on. J Edgar Hoover .
It’s always been corrupt.
Now that they have teamed up with DOJ in corruption. It’s worse now than ever before!!
They are withholding evidence for Trump’s RICO suit against $hrillary, the same suit that Reinhart recused himself from, but wrongly granted the warrant. That the government would admit to this illegal search and siezure after so many lies is bizarre and staggering. Must be trying to get ahead of something worse.
And about 100 other federal agencies, as far as I’m concerned. This federal beast has outgrown it’s usefulness for the average American citizen.
87,000 new IRS agent, gonna be jolly.
Beyond political… FBI/DOJ Hail Mary to save their own asses… that’s why it was SSSOOOOOO over-the-top.
Not according to Pence.
It was political when they all hooted and howled that Bill Clinton, Bush, and barry should not have to be investigated for their crimes once out of office. Funny how that works.
Obama, Biden, Rice, Brennan, the weasel in the NSA…they are probably in the docs
Newsweek has changed. They’ve actually been doing some real journalism for a while now. I noticed this a while back.
lol
I’m not sayin’ they’re awesome–just that some of their stuff wasn’t total bullshit. But I haven’t read this yet.
Yeah, I think they recently even ran an article by Darren Beattie. And Beattie linked on his twitter to another Newsweek article that was also on the side of truth. Not saying it’s all truth there, but just that they are putting at least some truth out.
I agree. They ran a major article back in July 2020 by Dr. Harvey Risch, about how HCQ/zinc is the answer to treating covid, and why the govt is stonewalling it. I was amazed.
https://www.newsweek.com/key-defeating-covid-19-already-exists-we-need-start-using-it-opinion-1519535
Lol….lol…lol…lol…
Sundance has been making them look bad.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
He makes them all look bad.
We’re doing Citizen Journalism because the “pros” are all whores.
Yes, they have a few decent writers there now. Better than most msm.
N E W Z W E A K
TRUST NOBODY
They’ve published opinion pieces recently by Steve Cortes, Gordon Chang, Liz Wheeler, Pedro Gonzalez, Mike Davis (lawyer, former Grassley CoS, Article III Project, War Room regular), Darren Beattie, …
I like Pedro, he is pretty good and so is Darren Beattie.
Both top notch content providers…
GARFIELD.
They’re gonna have to do a lot more than this report to undo the TOTAL FRAUD they active and knowingly perpetrated on the public:
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-collusion-russia-what-we-know-so-far-630053
Ha!
Is plagiarism “real journalism?”
I think Newsweek have just supplied the warheads for the next barrage of meme-missiles!
Breaking news: Elon Musk just announced that he is willing to buy the FBI! What’s not clear is if the Clintons are ready to sell…
Bravo!🙌
You are probably closer to the truth than you realize.
Bill Clinton firing the Director of the FBI the day before they found Vince Foster’s body has always raised questions.
Oh…and that Vince died from 2 bullets in the back of his head…….suicide. (Arkancide)
I would not be surprised if the mutual working relationship between the Clinton’s and FBI was formed then.
Also there is another even more important fact.
So documents that prove crimes were commited against the first real President, in a generation, is a top secret?
Seems to me those attacking PDJT are the real criminals.
“So documents that prove crimes were commited against the first real President, in a generation, is a top secret?”
No… only the redacted parts that the public hasn’t seen yet…
What if the redacted parts were…on a blue dress?
DOJ, CIA, FBI, NSA etc…..
Same Shit
An admission, no?
Here’s a thought… What if Trump had the document’s that they wanted to deny him of but he had moved them to somewhere Beyond the Federal Governments grasp? Somewhere like one of his many golf courses outside of the US, like Scotland, Ireland or Dubai. Then left behind just enough to make the FBI “Think” that they had everything that he had. Then either after the Durham investigation is over or after his re-election bid and (assuming that he wins) he drags them all out of hiding and declassifies them “Again” and releases them. What happens then? On the flip side if, upon his demise (of natural or unnatural causes) he has a poison pill set up to release everything Wikileaks style?
Or, was the FBI and DOJ set up by a mole who said all of these papers were there, but in reality, were not. So, they do the raid, but get nothing about what they were looking for. Trump does love to play with their minds. So now nervous Garland has no clue what to do.
This…was my first thought. Court case was filed on March 24th. No attorney would file if evidence is not already secured…IMHO.
But the one thing I don’t understand: Do they actually believe that Trump does not have COPIES of all the Russiagate, Servergate, etc documents stashed away somewhere?
No, but they think they can continue to cover them up with an “active investigation”, a la Mueller.
Ah yes the old “obstruction“ threat.
Do anything to prove you’re innocent and we’ll put you in jail for obstructing an active investigation.
And they can make that investigation go on for as long as they need it to.
Just like they’re doing to the unfortunate J6 protestors.
Hassles and headaches to prevent him from running for office keeps him tied up, plus it humiliates him, in theory. It just pisses us off even more.
Pickle…they know he does. The docs were declassed and sent to PT attorneys for the RICO case after Jan 2021, IMHO.
Case filed in March 2022. I have only experienced one court case yet have vague memory of copying costs! Ha!
Not sure who was not at the helm in the DS, however they only raided MAL last Monday?
Remember Merrick Garland said he had graveled with the decision for about six weeks or so.
Keystone Kriminals?
I constantly cross between retching and laughing due to the utter dysfunction of the DS and the real story.
SD’s photo says it all.
Any chain of custody here?
Supposedly classified material? When I was working intel many moons ago, you could not photograph anything classified, I see no badges signifying anyone with a high enough clearance. Maybe cops are given “Confidential” clearance but you can’t sniff Top Secret with that low of a clearance! Those pieces of evidence are NOT SECURED!
Oh,but, but, but…… it’s “different ” when Joe’s team does it, wink wink.
I don’t know anything about this author, but Steve Bannon mentioned the other day that Newsweek now publishes from many conservative / maga authors now. Names you would recognize.
Some conservative op-eds too.
trust at your own peril
We have been in an information War since Trump came down the escalator. The United States government was attacked and overthrown November 3rd, 2020. This was made possible by a fraudulent election not only by Americans but also, with foreign involvement (China).
The American people are starting to learn and more are becoming aware of the reality as to what it is really all about. The more the people become aware the more desperate and panic stricken the “Bad Guys” become. The power of the vote is as critical as it has ever been. The ballot is every Americans bullet.
Well said..!.
So, do they really think that Trump, smart man that he is, doesn’t have another copy of everything at another undisclosed location?
Trump said, they could take the papers anytime, so maybe those papers weren’t there!
If the docs were really declassified he is allowed to copy them. They know that. So they were after the docs to see what he has that incriminates them. IMO this whole thing was them trying to know what PT had on them. But the entire US gov is out to get him, so they actually might win. My opinion of the FBI changed decades ago. Ruby ridge and Waco. Clintons are still in control of much of the US gov for some reason. Probably related to Epstein blackmail. IMO. No deepstate operative would dare oppose them, The choice is between mucho $$$ and death. Don’t expect any FBI agents to come forward. They are all dirty.
President Trump’s RICO case against hillary and her gang…… backdrop to the raid on President Trump’s house.
In the link below, check out the dates and the one judge (epie background) who approved the raid on President Trump’s house.
So, hillary and her gang, after reading the RICO filings earlier this year and knowing they will lose the case, decide they needed some muscle to try to steal away with the evidence that President Trump has.
Imagine Hillary’s screams when her FBI henchmen told her the boxes were filled with order copies from the President Trump Store.
https://dockets.justia.com/docket/florida/flsdce/2:2022cv14102/610157
Okay, I take it back. Newsweak is bullshit.
All they say is the President had docs he thought would exonerate him. All the National Security stuff is lies. And the Big Lie is told by Omission:
THIS RAID WAS DONE BY AND FOR OUR SECRET POLICE TO RETRIEVE THE DOCUMENTS WHICH LAY OUT THEIR OWN SEDITIOUS CRIMINAL GUILT.
Exactly, they are in desperation and panic. Everything they do is to save their ass from jail. Nothing they do has anything to do with what is good for the Country. Trump has them in a trap.
Ever wonder why Trump is so calm and cool about it? It is because his plan is working and Trump has the enemy of the people starting to defeat themselves and it is getting personal.
Talk about COLLUSION !
Breaking News – Two high level CTH posters tell Newsweek that the DOJ/FBI weaponized the Steele Dossier. Newsweek said to be “flabbergasted”.
“Justice Department officials feared Donald Trump might weaponize” …
… and…
… “material that Trump apparently thought would exonerate him of any claims of Russian collusion in 2016”
That’s it, right there. Nothing more to say.
Not that he wasn’t already “exonerated”… IT’S THE DECLASSIFIED RUSSIAGATE DOCUMENTS THEMSELVES BEING MADE PUBLIC THAT’S THEIR PROBLEM…. just like Sundance outlined… of course…
And no national security event since..it was all FUBAR FAKE!!!!
Hmmm. Save for the fact that the traitors could and maybe DID create a national security event…
So, the FBI can weaponize, but not Trump?
Kudos, Sundance. As soon as I heard of the Newsweek article on Jesse Watters’s show (Sean Duffy subbing tonight), I knew Sundance had nailed it again.
Trumps smart, he would have more than 1 official copy.
I am sure he has more than one copy of all the documents.
Next raid, his lawyers offices?
I can’t speak to the legal aspects at all with regard to pdjt’s situation. Lots speculate here but none know.
The one thing pdjt DOES do masterfully is control the media and news cycles. It’s how he got elected in 2016. The one thing we need is exposure and with msm tripping all over themselves, pdjt is generating tremendous exposure.
Set up the fbi? Don’t know.
Nuke intel in the safe? MSM’s rumor gone awry.
MSM reported they didn’t take passports: they did. They even paraded struck out to posit the question why more than 1. Easy answer, 1 is diplomatic.
Hurricane hoax is back in the news, and not in a good way.
Aside from the fbi legal debacle, the news looks like bigger fools than ever. Meanwhile MAGA candidates are winning and whatever nefarious agenda the left may have is getting exposed. Bonus: he’s more popular than ever AND starting to win some sympathy along the way.
For me, the raid was spying legitimized with a warrant. They need to know what he has and thought airing it to the public in such a shocking way would win hearts. Wrong.
If you’re naive enough to think the left will apologize or accept being wrong then you don’t know progressives. All pdjt can do is continue to pound how foolish and diabolical they are. In that regard, he’s winning, hugely.
They had FISA warrants to spy on President Trump during his 2016 election.
The Russian Hoax.
This one is probably as legitimate as those were . /s
Well. they were cheering the news in the White House. What if Susan Rice orObama made this decision and it was just a stupid thing to do? It has the “feel” of other idiotic moves they made when Obama was President.
Garland seemed so weak when he got up to talk about the raid. Not like a confident AG who had his reasons and was explaining the action.
DOJ made themselves party to Trump v Clinton et al and DOJ has now stolen evidence that likely would have been used at court.
Who could have seen that coming, Middlebrooks?
Perhaps Garland should be added to the suit.
He added himself. The DoJ insisted that Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page and Clinesmith were employees and not a criminal conspiracy unto themselves. The judge agreed.
He’s plenty scared. Remember his voice cracking and his eyes blinking nervously when he read the teleprompter about he himself approved the search warrant? He’s in on it alright.
Time to severely downsize the federal government in general..
The largest employer in the world.!
We can start with the alphabet groups first…
Lots of our intel comes from those Agencies, careful what you wish for.
There’s another really good dude at Newsweek. His name is Pedro Gonzalez. I think he’s been referenced on here before. Nice to see it anyway.
I’m pretty sure Trump baited them…he’s not stupid enough (if nothing else) to have only ONE copy of ANYthing…just sayin’.
Newsweek just offering up the Deep-State/Mockingbird Media’s line, their desperate attempt to try to get ahead of the fact coming out that they were seeking documents related to their previous crimes… Russia, Epstein, Ukraine and more.
What if the documents in question show that Peter Strozk was NEVER in the employ of the FBI? What if Peter Strozk instead was/is a CIA agent? What if the documents prove that John Brennan at the direction of President BO launched a “counterintelligence investigation”against all viable GOP as well as DNC presidential candidates in 2015 in an effort to ensure a Hildabeast victory in 2016?
Is it not illegal for the CIA to conduct operations inside the USA? So, if you were the US Government would not you pretend that Peter Strozk was a FBI agent?
Inquiring minds want to know?
The Left and RINOs are pretty darn good at pretending anymore, no?
Think about it, I’d have multiple copies.
Trump declassified everything he had I’m Shure.
They all need to be fired
And tried for treason
The problem there is POTUS had to sign off on it. That muddies the whole situation with all that’s involved.
At times, Trump has been brilliant with letting his opponents hang their reputations on fake news and bogus claims, then zapping them with a full undoctored recording, or similar evidence that exposes them as liars. The weakness of this has been the facility with which Big Corrupt Media buries the correction. I do not understand why he has NOT hammered the DoJ/FBI for trying to confiscate and thereby hide the evidence of their motive behind the raid: protecting themselves from liability for their conspiracy against him.
Perhaps he is waiting for the right moment when the public is mystified by just why this raid happened. Or for the claimed FBI whistleblowers to break it open for him. When a subtantial portion or the public realizes that the raid was all about corrupt CYA, their remaining veneer of credibility is totally gone.
What is the status of Trump’s lawsuit? Does he have copies of the documents in the hands of his attorneys? Be a shame if these were published by some anonymous source NOW.
Did they consider he made copies
I am sure they is 100% surveillance audio and video on PDT. Real time spying to figure out the answer to the “copy” question. Horrible people.
Once they opened the boxes and every page had “COPY” in very large letters across it.
I hope they didn’t get the papers! If he hid them with the rest, I hope he made copies!
As dumb and stupid as I am. I would most certainly have made copies.
Sorry Sundance, but it’s highly probable Newsweek stole it from you, but the surprising thing is…
Newsweek may actually printed truth
Is this Newsweek’s attempt at a comeback ?? Print some truth, before resorting back to their former ways ??
No. It’s misdirection.
If that story gains traction, there are FBI/DOJ officials and possible a Federal Magistrate Judge going to prison.
Why would a story like this appear in Newsweek? The FBI is starting to crack because people have LIT UP Congress over this, and the FBI’s story doesn’t hold water.
The “nuclear secrets” leak didn’t go anywhere. They also have a serious problem that Trump literally declassified these documents TWICE and there is an extensive public record of his statements.
The question is whether there are enough DEMOCRATS who also hate the FBI to give this story legs and begin demanding full disclosure.
Newsweek leaks suggest a lower level FBI employee is the source. The 7th floor leaks to NYT.
Could also be Newsweek alerting the FBI that they have a mole.
The DOJ’s words of “decline to prosecute” will insure no one (except a Republican) will go to prison.
I’m not so sure now. I’ve had the feeling ever since the robbery was first announced that the FBI and DOJ were in a panic. This is NOT how this was supposed to go down. They were going to raid Trump’s house then selectively leak “classified” documents while claiming they got them from Trump.
But then people incinerated Congress with phone calls and emails. So then we got the “well, it was nuclear secrets” leak from the FBI. But that was silly. If it were true, why wait 18 months to do anything about it, then claim it was some sort of imminent national security threat? So that lie fell apart quickly. Then they moved to the fallback lie: it was a classified document of some kind. That of course led to a deluge of emails and Tweets and records showing that Trump massively declassified documents before he left office. There’s a huge public record of this. So that lie is falling apart very fast.
So now, internally, they’re starting to fight with each other. This Newsweek leak is a lower-level person. The 7th floor leaks to the NYT.
They’re scared.
I hope you are correct!
Do you think DJT has copies safely hidden?
No, Trump hid them in Melania’s skivvy’s drawer thinking it would be the last place they would think to look.
It’s the originals that are safely hidden. They are welcome to take boxes of copies.
When the government behaves badly, but can classify the evidence so NOBODY can ever see it, how does Justice ever occur?
JUSTICE NEVER OCCURS and that is the exact desired outcome from the Communist government point of view. We are only the proletariat and should expect collateral damage from the government dignitaries occasionally.
Shouldn’t Trump’s legal team have this stuff if it is evidence in a legal proceeding?
They have been going after his lawyers too. Anyone associated or affiliated is paying a price. The admin thinks the law doesn’t apply to them.
Is Newsweak changing sides?
Where is Julian Assange now that we need him? Oh yeah.
I wonder if he is still alive?
Sounds like they have accepted the very real possibility that Trump will be back and they won’t be able to stop him so they need to do some serious damage control before it is too late.
Justmom,
You got it. Good job.
The game clock is running and the bad guys are out of timeouts…… they can’t stop it.
If the article is accurate, DOJ was not lying about the materials being nuclear….nuclear to them and their schemes!
Rumor has it that they picked up on a hidden bug that Trump had said that Melania’s panties hid something that was “Nuclear Hot” and that’s why they sifted through her underwear drawer… /s
This writer discusses the same; similar to Sundance’s explanation:
https://theoptimisticconservative.wordpress.com/2022/08/16/three-more-pings-on-mar-a-lago-raid-a-situational-awareness-adjustment/#more-6984
I almost want to quit reading this disturbing news every day. The downward spiral is accelerating exponentially as we sleep.
The 16 year plan to destroy America as referenced in the Q drops was delayed by Donald Trump
Hillary’s 2 terms were to be the grand finale. So they were 4 years behind when the steal took place
if you are wondering what the plan is: Do a search on an independent search engine. I believe it can still be found.
Dear God, intervene soon before all the audits start and we are send to fema Re-education camps
The whole thing of adding 87,000 IRS Agents is really getting people worked up in terms of seeing how out of control all this is becoming. People realize how vulnerable they are. The MAL raid and releasing the news of agents at the same time wasn’t too bright especially after rounding people up that were in DC on Jan 6th. Indeed they are coming for us.
They have to make sure nobody has proof of their crimes.
Unfortunately for them there is extensive documentation of the declassification of their crimes.
The internet is forever.
The DOJ/FBI must be in quite the panic now.
Can’t wait to see those tapes from the closed circuit surveillance tapes that President Trump has from the desperation raid.
I wonder how many of the 33,000,000 documents Obama moved to Chicago “rightfully belonged to the government”? Surely he has many of he same docs when he was trying to frame Trump prior to 2016 election.
Why would DOJ oppose appointment of a special master?
Because DOJ wants to conceal their crimes.
Trump can now leak all of russiagate and no one could finger him
My thoughts exactly.
The more that comes out the more I am leaning toward thinking that the rat may well have been actually bait.
Old tapes in Bill Clinton’s sock drawer could impact MAL raid.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/old-case-over-audio-tapes-bill-clintons-sock-drawer-could-impact
I wouldn’t touch Bill Clinton’s sock drawer with your 100-foot pole.
Yuk.
Clinton’s and Obama’s silence is so deafening, I can’t hear myself think!
Read the Court ruling in that case. (Link is there) The Obama DOJ argued that ruling and agreed with it.
It is exactly the opposite of what the DOJ & the Archives are saying today.