WaPo FLAG: The FBI conducted a predawn raid of Paul Manafort's home late last month.

[kpete]

"The search warrant was wide-ranging and FBI agents working with special counsel Robert Mueller III departed the home with various records."


FBI agents raided the Alexandria home of President Trump’s former campaign chairman late last month, using a search warrant to seize documents and other materials, according to people familiar with the special counsel investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Federal agents appeared at Paul Manafort’s home without advance warning in the predawn hours of July 26, the day after he met voluntarily with the staff for the Senate Intelligence Committee.

The search warrant was wide-ranging and FBI agents working with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III departed the home with various records.

The raid came as Manafort has been voluntarily producing documents to congressional committees investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. The search warrant indicates investigators may have argued to a federal judge they had reason to believe Manafort could not be trusted to turn over all records in response to a grand jury subpoena.

It could also have been intended to send a message to President Trump’s former campaign chairman that he should not expect gentle treatment or legal courtesies from Mueller’s team.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fbi-conducted-predawn-raid-of-former-trump-campaign-chairman-manaforts-home/2017/08/09/5879fa9c-7c45-11e7-9d08-b79f191668ed_story.html?utm_term=.41018042e99e

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[jpak]

1. Hee hee

[Girard442]

2. Wow. Just wow.

I'm guessing they didn't schedule a predawn raid because they know he's an early riser and wanted to pick a time that would be good for him.

[C Moon]

18. :D

[tanyev]

3. Aha! Might be interesting to review Trump's twitter feed right after that happened.

[demmiblue]

6. And future tweets today and early tomorrow!

[Achilleaze]

7. You can bet your bippy that the republican TreasonWeasel Manafort went whining

to the republican TreasonWeasel Draft-Dodger-in-Chief immediately.

When it comes to pathetic, fake, traitorous whining, no one can top the republicans.

[demmiblue]

9. Just checked. That was the day he made his tweets about not allowing transgender people...

to serve in the U.S. military. He also tweeted about his Ohio rally, Lisa Murkowski, Sessions/Hillary, WORSHIPING GOD, Boys & Girls Nation and Foxconn.

He was a busy little tweeter that day!

[Blue_Adept]

12. He also tweeted about why the acting FBI Director McCabe wasn't fired previously

[demmiblue]

4. K&R

[Johnny2X2X]

5. Twilight Zone territory

In any other year in our nation's history this story would be absolutely earth shattering. Just another ho hum chapter in the theft of our Democracy by crime families.

[Dem_4_Life]

8. Go Mueller!!!

[orangecrush]

10. "KNOCK, KNOCK!"

[progressoid]

17. Sadly, those are reserved for people of color smoking weed.

[orangecrush]

19. Look at the bright side

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Manafort got, at the very least, a "rude awakening."

[progressoid]

20. I hope one of many more to come!

[tblue37]

21. Not Mueller--Manafort. nt

[orangecrush]

22. Fixed it

Thank you!

[OnDoutside]

11. The Korea situation has so far stopped coverage of this...nothing on MSNBC.

[OnDoutside]

14. Andrea Mitchell just covering in her show.

[Justice]

13. Rachel Maddow has repeatedly posited the Q about how Manafort came to be hired by Trump

I suspect that question will be answered as part of the investigation and the answer will be very meaningful.

[OnDoutside]

15. +1 Plus how Manafort brought in Pence, and what did Pence know.

[Gothmog]

16. This is a major development in this case

[Generic Brad]

23. But it does not definitively mean the FBI found anything

They were there - that is known. But we have no indication that they found what they were looking for. Guess we will find out in time.