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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 10:12 AM Aug 2017

FBI conducted predawn raid of former Trump campaign chairman Manafort's home

Source: The Washington Post



By Carol D. Leonnig, Tom Hamburger and Rosalind S. Helderman August 9 at 9:53 AM

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.

Read more: 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?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.81a6a7639f0d

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FBI conducted predawn raid of former Trump campaign chairman Manafort's home (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2017 OP
Malcolm Nance was right! Sedona Aug 2017 #1
Which statement of his are you referring to? SHRED Aug 2017 #3
Malcolm Nance said on Randi Rhodes and Stephanie Miller Sedona Aug 2017 #16
Cool SHRED Aug 2017 #17
Malcolm Nance saidsimplesimon Aug 2017 #12
Here are Trump's tweets from July 26 bathroommonkey76 Aug 2017 #15
Very telling. Glimmer of Hope Aug 2017 #34
Malcom is the 💣 Stellar Aug 2017 #30
I think we should refrain from explosive references for a little while Sedona Aug 2017 #36
Point taken! Stellar Aug 2017 #47
He also said awhile ago that Manafort and Flynn DeminPennswoods Aug 2017 #44
LOL! HAB911 Aug 2017 #2
Next up Scarsdale Aug 2017 #4
Sorry, ? Duppers Aug 2017 #9
The trump kids Hassin Bin Sober Aug 2017 #18
White House Barbie....... SergeStorms Aug 2017 #52
.... Duppers Aug 2017 #53
ummm melm00se Aug 2017 #5
Because FBI is run by serious professionals and not stupid reality stars... Hekate Aug 2017 #54
"The target is getting buggy." Malcom Nance. Botany Aug 2017 #6
Hope Lil' Kim can STFU for awhile. mobeau69 Aug 2017 #23
THAT is utterly impossible. We have two madmen in control of nuclear weapons.... groundloop Aug 2017 #38
Kim should STFU and not let himself be the dog that dump can wag. mobeau69 Aug 2017 #45
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy jpak Aug 2017 #7
"Should not expect gentle treatment ... from Muellers team." Duppers Aug 2017 #8
grab the twitter servers for the private twitter groups and game logs off blizzard & sony wow/eq gam Sunlei Aug 2017 #10
republican TreasonWeasels on the run from truth, justice and the American Way Achilleaze Aug 2017 #11
Unless he assumed that he could get away with it, calimary Aug 2017 #51
Sending a message to Trump too. L. Coyote Aug 2017 #13
Right on! Come on Mr. Mueller...shift into OVERDRIVE! Remove this Madman ASAP. nt. PearliePoo2 Aug 2017 #14
I'd prefer Mueller gets it right the first time meow2u3 Aug 2017 #28
Agreed, wholeheartedly NastyRiffraff Aug 2017 #39
+1. If whole Republicon gang can be discredited & some jailed then justice will begin to return. Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2017 #42
He Has Had itcfish Aug 2017 #19
There are ways to trace such evidence... FarPoint Aug 2017 #21
Evidence, at times, can be what's missing, that should be there. nt jrthin Aug 2017 #22
Can't clean up a mess if you're unaware it's there. LanternWaste Aug 2017 #24
Once the name "Manafort" and the words "Russia Collusion" Calista241 Aug 2017 #31
I'm sure Il Douche and his State Media will claim... Dopers_Greed Aug 2017 #20
Can they do a raid on Trump and take the black magic suitcase that dae Aug 2017 #25
This message was self-deleted by its author KRISITNA Aug 2017 #26
IT'S A RAID!!! KRISITNA Aug 2017 #27
RAID: Kills bugs--and russkie-loving traitors--dead! meow2u3 Aug 2017 #29
That is just to funny! You have me laughing hysterically. Doreen Aug 2017 #40
K & R SunSeeker Aug 2017 #32
No wonder Trump was making noises about firing Jeff Sessions NewJeffCT Aug 2017 #33
Manafart Swept it Clean SayItLoud Aug 2017 #35
Only a fool would think they could get away with high crimes Generic Brad Aug 2017 #50
Why is the FBI so interested in Paul Manafort that agents were literally at his door before dawn? mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2017 #37
Tom Hamburger writing in WaPo. It's NOT a nothingburger, it's Hamburger. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2017 #41
But what about Benghazi? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2017 #43
MSNBC had a pundit on who said there was no such private home raid in all of Watergate. Ever. Wow. lindysalsagal Aug 2017 #46
Also Watergate did not involve undisclosed foreign payments and even national security wishstar Aug 2017 #48
Makes Watergate look like a mother pilfering the PTA slush fund. lindysalsagal Aug 2017 #49

Sedona

(3,769 posts)
16. Malcolm Nance said on Randi Rhodes and Stephanie Miller
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 10:32 AM
Aug 2017

shows about two weeks ago that we will know they are about to take them all down when the unannounced FBI raids started.

AND they started two weeks ago when he said it!

DeminPennswoods

(15,246 posts)
44. He also said awhile ago that Manafort and Flynn
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 02:52 PM
Aug 2017

would be the first to flip. Maybe Flynn already has; he and his lawyer have been awfully quiet since he was fired as Natl Sec Dir.

SergeStorms

(18,903 posts)
52. White House Barbie.......
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 02:09 AM
Aug 2017

Ivanka, and her very progressive ideas that will help keep Daddy Dearest in check. She supposedly has a very calming effect on the old sex pervert. Or so they said, anyway. The only way she can get any reaction from Daddy Dearest is by sitting on his lap and gyrating. Though I doubt that old cocktail wiener can move anymore.

Botany

(70,291 posts)
6. "The target is getting buggy." Malcom Nance.
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 10:23 AM
Aug 2017

The walls are closing in on Trump and so he is out trying to rile up his base and trying
to provoke a war w/N Korea.

groundloop

(11,488 posts)
38. THAT is utterly impossible. We have two madmen in control of nuclear weapons....
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 12:32 PM
Aug 2017

each desperate to show the world who has bigger balls. Additionally, one of them is doing everything in his power to deflect attention away from his criminal activities before and during the election - a handy little war might just fit the bill nicely. This could end very badly.

mobeau69

(11,079 posts)
45. Kim should STFU and not let himself be the dog that dump can wag.
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 04:56 PM
Aug 2017

I want to see dump go down before the nuclear conflagration.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
10. grab the twitter servers for the private twitter groups and game logs off blizzard & sony wow/eq gam
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 10:28 AM
Aug 2017

games for their private in game chat rooms. nothings on paper.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
11. republican TreasonWeasels on the run from truth, justice and the American Way
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 10:28 AM
Aug 2017

But you know republican rat Manafort would not leave glaring evidence of collusion, corruption, or general republican skuzzbucketry lying around. It's deeply buried in some freaking republican slimeball cave.

calimary

(80,700 posts)
51. Unless he assumed that he could get away with it,
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 11:21 PM
Aug 2017

so hiding it at his house would be fine. "...cuz it'll all blow over. Because it's a nothingburger. I can just slow-walk this til Doomsday and then the boss'll pardon me anyway. I've never had to face any consequences before in my life, so why should I worry now? It's called 'just doing business.' Besides, they'd never come breaking into my house to get this stuff, would they? Don't they know WHO I AM?????"

Oh wait...

meow2u3

(24,745 posts)
28. I'd prefer Mueller gets it right the first time
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 11:29 AM
Aug 2017

A criminal and/or counterintelligence investigation too hastily conducted can, and often will, allow the criminals to get off scot-free.

I want to see a thorough investigation that would put away the Toxic Tangerine and his minions.

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
39. Agreed, wholeheartedly
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 01:03 PM
Aug 2017

I'm as anxious as anyone to get this done ASAP, but it's important in an investigation this complex and involving so many people to make sure all the dots are firmly connected and everything triple checked. Like anything else, it's much easier to do it right the first time than to clean up mistakes.

FarPoint

(12,209 posts)
21. There are ways to trace such evidence...
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 10:52 AM
Aug 2017

Secondly, there are always clues...others also may of fessed up and even destroyed evidence gives clues this way.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
24. Can't clean up a mess if you're unaware it's there.
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 11:00 AM
Aug 2017

Not too many people know how to remove files from a hard drive. Can't clean up a mess if you're unaware it's there.

Calista241

(5,584 posts)
31. Once the name "Manafort" and the words "Russia Collusion"
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 11:47 AM
Aug 2017

Started being bandied about, I would've had a team of lawyers in his house taking an inventory of everything. If it was in any way incriminating of anything, it would've been gone / destroyed / held by his attorneys.

He's had months to prepare for this. Did he think Mueller wasn't going to show up and ask him anything?

And even if there was something, Trump can pardon him and make it go away. Like Reagan did.

Response to DonViejo (Original post)

NewJeffCT

(56,827 posts)
33. No wonder Trump was making noises about firing Jeff Sessions
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 11:52 AM
Aug 2017

in late July - right around the time the raids took place.

SayItLoud

(1,696 posts)
35. Manafart Swept it Clean
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 12:20 PM
Aug 2017

Months ago. Only fool would keep the incriminating evidence on him laying around.

Generic Brad

(14,270 posts)
50. Only a fool would think they could get away with high crimes
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 10:47 PM
Aug 2017

If a person thinks they are untouchable because their crime boss is President of the United States, there is no reason to be careful. So... yeah. There quite possibly was evidence laying around.

mahatmakanejeeves

(56,897 posts)
37. Why is the FBI so interested in Paul Manafort that agents were literally at his door before dawn?
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 12:25 PM
Aug 2017
Why is the FBI so interested in Paul Manafort that agents were literally at his door before dawn?

By Amber Phillips August 9 at 10:50 AM

There are a couple reasons the special counsel's expanding Russia investigation might be so interested in former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort that FBI agents showed up at his door before dawn, unannounced, searched his home and seized documents, as The Washington Post reports.
....

Amber Phillips writes about politics for The Fix. She was previously the one-woman D.C. bureau for the Las Vegas Sun and has reported from Boston and Taiwan. Follow @byamberphillips

lindysalsagal

(20,444 posts)
46. MSNBC had a pundit on who said there was no such private home raid in all of Watergate. Ever. Wow.
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 08:00 PM
Aug 2017

That's because Watergate wasn't about money, and this Russian collusion is.

wishstar

(5,267 posts)
48. Also Watergate did not involve undisclosed foreign payments and even national security
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 10:36 PM
Aug 2017

Paul Manafort reportedly was under a long term contract where he was paid millions to advance Russia's interests in US, not just Ukraine

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