According to a new report by Newsweek, the dramatic and unprecedented raid on the home of the former president was “based” largely on information from an FBI confidential human source,” who told the agency that 45th President Donald Trump was “hiding” classified documents, and subsequently pinpointed their location.
Claims that an informant leaked the information to the FBI were brought forth by two senior government officials with direct knowledge of the agency’s operations against Trump, the report claims. These moles had supposedly been embedded in Trump’s orbit, and there has been much speculation about their identities.
According to Newsweek’s government sources, the FBI had timed the raid on Trump’s home so that it would occur while he was in New York.
Agency leaders in D.C. and Miami believed that raiding Trump’s home while he was present would give him a “photo opportunity or a platform from which to grandstand (or attempt to thwart the raid),” said one of the sources.
The immense backlash from the GOP and and public outcry proved the FBI’s supposed attempt to keep the raid “low-profile” futile. “What a spectacular backfire,” said one of the officials.

Helicopters outside Mar-a-Lago
The two officials insist that the raid wasn’t political.
“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,” the official claimed. “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,” said the second source, a senior intelligence official. “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.”
On Tuesday President Trump decried what he described as a “coordinated attack” against him by “Radical left Democrat” state and local district attorneys following the controversial raid.
The in a new statement published on his social media platform Truth Social, the former president doubled down on his claims that the United States has become a “third world country” and lamented what he referred to as a “continuation” of the Russia hoax, Mueller report, and both impeachment debacles.
“A horrible thing that took place yesterday at Mar-a-Lago,” the 45th president wrote. “We are no better than a third world country, a banana republic.”

JOHN MAYOR
August 11, 2022 at 11:35 am
Good lad!… but, Comey should have had Trump cross-examined in connection with Trump’s involvement with Weinstein, Epstein and Maxwell (but, etc.)!
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BTW!… people who use the terms “snitch” and “rat” are usually associated with CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES!… THUG TERMS!
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t*ly/aZ0B
Gerald Ladd
August 11, 2022 at 1:18 pm
Hey stupid, I mean John. trump had no affiliation with Epstein. You must be a member of the niggeRAT party.
Greg Duke
August 11, 2022 at 3:42 pm
Amen.
Recce1
August 12, 2022 at 1:34 am
As a very conservative constitutionalist Republican, I’m asking you if you’re a member of the KKK.
JOHN MAYOR
August 12, 2022 at 10:01 am
Please note the DJT “I don’t give a sh*t” lip movements at bit*ly/3Pymm9v, and the “Don’t worry Epstein, I love your perversion” finger distraction at bit*ly/3z0VhER.
Bonnie Schulte
August 11, 2022 at 1:45 pm
Oh,Good Lord, what a stupid thing to say. People say worse things then snitch and rat. Thugs are those that go around burning cities and killing people.
2004done
August 11, 2022 at 5:38 pm
Bonnie Schulte: Not to disagree with you about degrees of abnormal, but merely to point out that advanced thuggery isn’t in a normal person’s development. I believe at some point in a damaged person’s life, the ‘thrill’ of saying snitch, rat, or creating a minor deception won’t be exciting enough, perhaps after the thrill of a major deception, arson and murder are their normal progression of abnormal.
Sandra Lee Smith
August 11, 2022 at 8:28 pm
Why are HMX fleet choppers there? They have no reason to be in FL, at Mar-a-Lago.
Recce1
August 12, 2022 at 1:38 am
I believe it was an old photo of the Marine ONE helicopters. But since Mar-a-Lago is right on the water, I was wondering if they had bears in boats like they did a Roger Stone’s home when they raided it.
JOHN MAYOR
August 12, 2022 at 10:25 am
“Good Lord”?… I don’t think you know the Good Lord!… you read like a sociopsychopath! BTW, anyone on this site can throw up a pic of a fake gender, a fake senior, use a pseudonym (multiple times!) and take down the text of someone the fake gender(s), fake senior(s), pseudonymic and sociopsychopath(s) doesn’t/ don’t like!
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Remove yourself from my presence!… in the name of Jesus Christ!
jean
August 11, 2022 at 3:52 pm
Look in the mirror! Since YOU fund the purveyors of violence, hate, racism, filth, criminal activities, murder, lies, AND anti Americanism! Unlike YOU decent hard-working Americans prefer NOT to live in a 3rd world shit hole!
JOHN MAYOR
August 12, 2022 at 10:44 am
You wouldn’t know a decent hard-working American if he/ she slapped you in the face!… “jean”!… and, sociopsychopath! And I haven’t underwritten/ funded any of the categories of evils that you’ve cited… and the reason that you may be living in a “shit hole” is because you’re full of that of which you speak!
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You will be held to account for your words!… I’m a Christian, and Jesus Christ is my avenger!
Jim
August 11, 2022 at 2:47 pm
So here we go again. The lying crooked Adam Schiff had a confidential informant which turned out to be his son in law? or something like that. He lied for years that he had positive proof that President Trump had conspired with Russia to steal the election. Now we know the truth that he is a lair and a POS. The crook Mafia FBI lied on the FISAs warrants and just about 99% of everything about President Trump and no one was disciplined. Wray is a weasel and has ruined the FBI the way lying Comey did. The deep state politicians who are stealing from we the people are scared to death that President Trump will put them in jail or impeach them.
Greg Duke
August 11, 2022 at 3:45 pm
Trump will need to fire the top 3 levels of every government agency and threaten the hell out of the rest. Do you job or hit the door. Wray, Schiff, and the entire lot of garbage needs to carted off to the closest prison and put away for life.
Centurion
August 11, 2022 at 4:10 pm
Amen to that, brother.
2004done
August 11, 2022 at 5:48 pm
“Top THREE?” Your Optimism won’t effectively fix much, it’ll just change the names on the doors.
Lou Ann
August 11, 2022 at 7:01 pm
I agree with you 100% Jim
Jim
August 11, 2022 at 2:51 pm
If you believe anything the weasel Wray or any FBI agent says or does you will be stupid enough to vote for demoncRATs again.
Philip Seth Hammersley
August 11, 2022 at 4:04 pm
You cannot reason with DIMMs. They have been thoroughly brainwashed in the “elite” universities who cannot tell the difference between a man and a woman or a living baby and a clump of cells!
B. Clinton
August 11, 2022 at 4:36 pm
I thought NEWSWEEK had turned into a Girly Magazine with Pics of BillyBoyClinton in “Action”!
Nick1
August 11, 2022 at 5:46 pm
More fake news. Trump lawyers took the DOJ to the room where they are storedmonths ago. The DOJ asked them to put a lock on the door which they did. So the DOJ knew exactly where the documents under dispute were located.
And why not just a subpoena as has been used in all other Presidential document disputes (Obama still has thousands in his possession)?
Because when you run a Raid and grab stuff without listing everything that was taken it makes it quite easy to plant “evidence”.
Had enough of Democrats YET? Then vote for the November Democrat Reduction Bill.
Ernst
August 12, 2022 at 3:09 am
The idea that this raid was not political is pure stupid. Hillary Clinton, NOT President, was neither raided not prosecuted for her known misuse of classified government documents. President Trump was the ultimate arbiter of what documents were classified; by definition he could not have misused classified documents. This raid was coordinated with the J6 witch hunt to make Trump look bad, but it just gives further credence to the Democrat lawless conduct.
Sanjosemike
August 12, 2022 at 9:05 am
Looking at Trump through the “eyes” of Democrats and especially the Deep State it is entirely understandable why they fear him so much. Trump is not so much of a Republican or even a conservative, but a populist who wants to return power back to the people.
This is the greatest threat to them that they have ever faced. It is entirely understandable that they would plant evidence against him. They look at getting rid of Trump as almost a religious imperative.
I won’t say more. I hope you understand me.
Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)