Mr. Trump, open the door

Passports to the former president of the FBI returned, but the political and criminal scandal erupted serious

The 45th US President Donald Trump is outraged by a search conducted by FBI agents on August 8 at his Florida residence of Mar-A-Llaz. During the 8-hour investigative actions that the lawyers of the former president were not allowed, the Federal Bureau of Investigations seized about 20 boxes with materials, including 11 collections of documents with the Griff “Secret” and “Top Secret”.

Instead of submitting documents to the archives, as expected to the former president, Donald Trump transported them from the White House to Mar-A-Largo. Here he not only lives with his family, there is also a sports club. The FBI agents were looking for evidence of possible violations of three federal laws at once: the section of the "Law on Spying" (adopted more than 100 years ago, in 1917), which declares the possession of the secrets of national defense or their disclosure; a law prohibiting the destruction or concealment of documents in order to interfere with the investigation; and the law against the theft, destruction or distortion of state documents.

The leading American media filed a joint lawsuit, demanding that they publish not only the judicial order for the search, but also the so -called affidvit - justification, the testimony on the basis of which the search was carried out. The Ministry of Justice is opposed to this: the publication can not only reveal the names of witnesses and informants of the FBI, but also damage the investigation, the purpose of which is to assess the degree of guilt of the former president. Florida judge Bruce Reinhart made a compromise decision:

He admitted that some parts of the affidate will be disclosed by the public (not earlier than in another week, when the hearings on the case are continued). But not the names of agents and witnesses, as well as not specific details that can damage the investigation.

According to the media, some assistants to Trump are convinced that only a family member could point to the agents a specific box, and also knew the location of the Trump safe. Trump Mary’s niece and his former lawyer Michael Cohen suggested that Jared Kushner, son -in -law of the former president, could be an informant. They have no evidence.

Trump behaved very contradictory. On the one hand, immediately after the search, he turned to the Prosecutor General Merrik Garland with the question of how he could help extinguish the “fire in the country”, which, according to him, “caused the actions of the FBI”. In an interview with Fox, Trump said that “the temperature must be reduced” and promised that he would work to ensure that this would happen. But this obligation did not act for long: a few hours later he returned to attacks on the Ministry of Justice and the judge who authorized the search in Mar-A-Llaz.

In his social network, the Truth Social 45th president posted an article from the American Spectator publication called the Fascist Bureau of Investigations, the former CNN observer Jeffrey Lord, who was laid down in 2017 for the publication of Twitte with a Nazi greeting. “The FBI has turned into a fascist bureau of investigations, a government agency armed against American citizens that he does not like,” the Lord wrote, and Trump published.

The former president claims that the search was part of the political revenge against him, that the agents “threw evidence” and seized his passports, personal documents and papers related to his correspondence with lawyers.

Surrounded by the former president, they are threatened to release a video of a search shot by outdoor surveillance cameras. It is believed that this will rally “Trumpofils”.

The prosed media compared the searches of the FBI of secret documents with political persecution, more common in the “Banana Republic” or “under the Nazi rule”. Republicans of Congress accused the Ministry of Justice of violating the rights of the former president and hunting for a possible opponent Bayden in 2024, and the conservative member of the House of Representatives of Marjori Taylor Green made the FBI of funding (with a similar slogan - “deprive the financing of the police” - supporters of the democrats performed after the death of the Africanar -America several years ago. George Floyd).

From words we went to business. Last week, the supporter of Trump attacked the FBI office in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was killed by the police. In the Trumpovsky Social Network, Truth Social, before this, published many messages with calls against violence against the FBI.

Trump's armed supporters conducted a demonstration near the FBI office in Phoenix, Arizona. Mike Pence, a former vice president, called on the same party members to stop threatening the FBI. “The Republican Party is a party of law and order,” Pence recalled. “The attacks on the FBI should stop.” The Prosecutor General (aka the head of the US Ministry of Justice) Merrik Garland was forced to make a public statement in which he confirmed that the search was supported by the Ministry of Justice.

A special group of FBI agents who are not directly related to the investigation continues to study and filter the documents received. The duration of the procedure is associated with a large amount of information and the desire to return the paper that are not related to business. Officials told NBC News that this group considered that Trump’s passports, which, as he claimed, the agents “stole” during the search did not belong to the investigation, and they were returned to him. Experts also check whether any documents or other materials that are not marked with “secret” information contains secret information.

President Baiden prefers not to comment on the FBI raid, but representatives of the Democratic Party literally shout from all information platforms that the behavior of the former president "poses a serious threat to national security."

Opponents of the former president published a video in which Trump talks about how to protect secret information during the presidential campaign in August 2016. “As for political corruption, we are going to restore the honor of our government,” Trump said. - In my administration, I will ensure that all laws regarding the protection of secret information. No one will be above the law. ” Trump criticized the former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for the scandal associated with the loss of documents of the State Department after hacking her personal email. “It was not just extreme negligence with secret materials, it was a calculated, deliberate unlawful behavior,” Trump said then.

Boomerang returned to him. But now he claims that all the documents captured by the FBI were deprived of the stamp of secrecy by his executive decree (which, however, no one saw).

Why did Trump take secret documents from the White House without transferring them, as expected, to the national management of archives and documentation? Why, having agreed to partial issuance of documents (in January of this year, 15 boxes were transferred to the archives service), did the former president leave a most of them? There are at least two versions. I don’t know which one is worse for Trump.

The first version (many former advisers of the 45th president are talking about it)-Trump was extremely jealous of all restrictions, including in the field of secrecy, believing that he, as the head of state is above the rules and regulations. According to the New York Times, Maggie Haberman: “For four years, the former president belonged to the federal government and the political apparatus acting on his behalf as a private company in real estate. He felt that all this belonged to him, merging together in the brand of Trump, which he cherished for decades.

“My generals,” he repeatedly spoke of the acting and retired military leaders. “My money” - he often called the money that he raised during his campaign or for the Republican National Committee. “My Kevin,” he said about Kevin McCarthy, the leader of the Republicans in the House of Representatives. ”

And the documents of the White House? “They are mine” - three Trump advisers confirmed that this is how he repeatedly answered them when he was persuaded to return the boxes with secret documents. Trump treated national secrets as interesting trinkets like a gigantic boot of basketball player Shakil O'nil, the former president holds this boot in his New York skyscraper, the so-called Trump tower. Assistants from the White House reported how Trump was glad to show all the materials to which he had access, including letters from the North Korean leader Kim Jong -un - he usually waved them to visitors, alarming advisers and special services.

In May 2017, Trump announced the secret intelligence data provided by Israel during a meeting with two high -ranking Russian government officials, which terrified his national security team. Two years later, when he was shown at the intelligence briefing a confidential photograph of the failed launch of the Iranian rocket, Trump was delighted.

“I want to tweet it,” he told the CIA to the head of the CIA, an adviser to national security and the director of national intelligence. Officials tried to stop him, but the president shared a photograph with his 63 million subscribers on Twitter.

Often he torn the documents (including secret ones) and threw them into the basket. The assistants glued them to give the archivists, as it should be under the law on the presidential archives.

Other advisers suggest that, perhaps, Trump took out documents because they contained valuable information about the people whom he knew. According to the former administration employee, among the information that the US presidents are presented on foreign trips, there are biographies of foreign leaders. One version is not classified and rather routine. But the other is classified and contains a lot of personal data. One of the FBI files, captured in Mar-A-Lala, was marked as "Information about France President Emmanuel Macron." In addition, information was received about the pardon of Roger Stone, a longtime friend and political adviser Trump. Stone was convicted of a jury for trying to prevent the investigation by the Congress of "Russia's interference in the 2016 elections."

Former personal attorney Donald Trump (he is called Fixer - “solved”)

Michael Cohen believes that “confidential” and secret documents in Mar-A-Lala were maintained by Trump in case of possible arrest for criminal offenses as a “card for a transaction” and “free exit from prison”.

Cohen suggested that everything was thought out in advance. “At that moment when handcuffs put on him, he turns around and says: I have documents showing where our nuclear starting platforms are located,” said Cenn Cenn. “That's what I believe in: he will take advantage of this and say: right now, 20 of my faithful supporters, you don’t know who they are, transmit this information to Russia, to Iran, anyone.” Cohen added that Trump will carry out his plan, because he "does not care about this country."

There are many investigations around Trump. The former financial director of Trump Organization Allen Welena Vaisselberg found himself guilty of tax fraud. As a result of the transaction with the Justice of Weisselberg, he will pay a fine of $ 2 million and spend only 100 days in prison instead of 15 years. He can testify if Trump or his children will ever be charged. On the day when the FBI conducted a search in Trump’s house in Florida, the former president testified under the oath as part of a civil investigation conducted by the New York Prosecutor General, whether the organization of Trump, insurers, insurers and tax authorities. The ex-president took advantage of the fifth correction to the Constitution, which allows not to testify against himself. This investigation is not connected with the criminal investigation of the organization of Trump, which is conducted by the District Prosecutor's Office of Manhattan. It is curious that when, several years ago, Hillary Clinton advisers took advantage of this correction in connection with the scandal mentioned here about e -mail hacking, Trump said that “the fifth amendment exists for the mafia; If a person is innocent, he does not need her! ”

And the most remarkable business: the Committee "January 6", specially created by Congress to investigate the circumstances of the assault on the Capitol with a crowd of supporters of Trump,

It continues to find out every step that was taken (or not taken) by the president who lost the elections, but for the first time in the history of the United States refused to transfer power.

So far, Trump has not officially charged. In the USA, it is not customary to judge the former presidents, in any case, since the civil war. But the threat of the court with a Damoklov sword hangs over the 45th president who has passed in the past two impeachment of the House of Representatives. Trump dreams of taking revenge in the presidential election. While scandals only help him collect millions of dollars of donations. However, the 45th is in no hurry to challenge the 46th or other democratic candidate. Two years can change a lot.