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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Wed Mar 1, 2023, 09:26 AM Mar 2023

'Afraid' FBI agents wanted to shut down Trump docs probe before Mar-a-Lago search:

A new report from the Washington Post claims that some agents within the Federal Bureau of Investigation wanted to shut down a probe into former President Donald Trump's handling of classified information because they were "afraid" of being political targets.



According to the Post's reporting, these agents argued for shutting down the probe after Trump's lawyers claimed last June to have conducted a "diligent" search of Mar-a-Lago for additional classified documents requested by the government.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fbi-2659484337/

Has Trump used his position of power to destroy FBI agent's careers? This should be illegal.
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'Afraid' FBI agents wanted to shut down Trump docs probe before Mar-a-Lago search: (Original Post) UCmeNdc Mar 2023 OP
Yes! True Blue American Mar 2023 #1
I think it's more that there are a lot of trumpers at the FBI. PSPS Mar 2023 #2
Yes, I noticed that the FBI, gab13by13 Mar 2023 #4
I posted a thread which is still on the front page gab13by13 Mar 2023 #3
LOL!!! SoCalDavidS Mar 2023 #5
Someone at the DOJ needs to go and I am thinking we start at the top. Ray Bruns Mar 2023 #6
They should be fired. Emile Mar 2023 #7
I have been dancing around (figuratively) haha the idea that "I want to believe" in the DOJ and- Prairie_Seagull Mar 2023 #8
There is definitely not a shortage of MAGATS in the FBI/JD TheRealNorth Mar 2023 #9
More likely they were covering for their MAGA cult leader. W_HAMILTON Mar 2023 #10

PSPS

(13,583 posts)
2. I think it's more that there are a lot of trumpers at the FBI.
Wed Mar 1, 2023, 09:39 AM
Mar 2023

We even have Wray, a "loyal" trumper, running to fox news breathlessly pushing the latest "covid lab" conspiracy theory yesterday.

gab13by13

(21,280 posts)
4. Yes, I noticed that the FBI,
Wed Mar 1, 2023, 09:42 AM
Mar 2023

among our intelligence agencies, is leading the way in pushing the lab theory.

gab13by13

(21,280 posts)
3. I posted a thread which is still on the front page
Wed Mar 1, 2023, 09:40 AM
Mar 2023

it is about the GAO, Government Accountability Agency, a watchdog agency that came up with recommendations for DOJ and the FBI to do internal audits on the failures of intelligence leading up to the J6 insurrection. Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray have not done those internal investigations. Maybe an institutionalist is afraid he may find members of law enforcement wer complicit and that would do damage to the DOJ and FBI?

Christopher Wray flat out lied to Congress and nothing was done to him.

Prairie_Seagull

(3,316 posts)
8. I have been dancing around (figuratively) haha the idea that "I want to believe" in the DOJ and-
Wed Mar 1, 2023, 10:28 AM
Mar 2023

FBI. Have we gotten to the point where there are enough bad actors that it puts a taint on the whole of these 2 departments. Personally I am in a wait, see and hope moment with the DOJ. The FBI however, not nearly as much.

There have been times in our past where the FBI has acted like the private police of an executive branch but it always appeared that with a new president and the ouster of head individuals that the FBI as a whole persevered. This time however it would appear otherwise. It looks like the aliens within the FBI are trying to colonize.

"I want to believe" is turning into can I still believe?

TheRealNorth

(9,474 posts)
9. There is definitely not a shortage of MAGATS in the FBI/JD
Wed Mar 1, 2023, 12:22 PM
Mar 2023

Remember it was some lower level fuckers that leaked the Hillary/Huma Abedin laptop story to Rudy. No doubt some of those fuckers were promoted when TFG was in office.

Always remember, their obsession with the "Deep State" was always projection.

W_HAMILTON

(7,849 posts)
10. More likely they were covering for their MAGA cult leader.
Wed Mar 1, 2023, 12:50 PM
Mar 2023

Just like they did in 2016 when they did what they did to Hillary and then leaked to the press that there were no connections between the Trump campaign and the Russians.

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