According to a former NYPD commissioner, Democrats will attempt to murder Donald Trump if an FBI raid on his Florida property does not result in criminal charges.
After the federal authorities landed on Mar-a-Lago yesterday morning, Bernard Kerik declared he was “deathly scared” for the former president.
He claimed he believed the Left would kill the 76-year-old because they had tried everything else to prevent him from running for office again in 2024.
In an effort to determine whether Trump stole sensitive documents from the White House and transported them to his Florida property, the FBI examined Trump’s estate.
In a long statement, the former president disclosed the raid and claimed that the feds broke into a safe at his house while looking for the documents.
Although 15 boxes of secret documents are said to have been taken by the agents, they have remained silent about what was inside.
Trump denounced it as “prosecutorial malfeasance” and charged the FBI of applying different standards to Hillary Clinton than he did to him.
When Kerik appeared on The Balance with host Eric Bolling last night, he expressed his shock at the raid.
If you recall, I was in Washington, D.C., in 2016, just before he was elected, he recalled.
I overheard conversations at a few different social gatherings, and they claimed that the Democrats wanted this man so badly that they would not hesitate to use assassination as a cover.
I’m going to tell you something else now. They have tried impeachment, another attempt at impeachment, and a series of investigations.
“This is about one thing: keeping him from running in 2024,” he continued.
I’m not into conspiracies, and I don’t engage in discourse that is critical of the government, I’m going to tell you that.
For the first time in my life, I can honestly state that I am terrified to death for Donald Trump. I wouldn’t accuse these individuals of being assassins.
The investigation into how classified materials ended up in boxes of White House archives discovered at Mar-a-Lago earlier this year has been intensified by the search.
It takes place in the midst of a different grand jury investigation examining attempts to invalidate the results of the 2020 election, raising the possibility of legal trouble for Trump.
Trump and his allies attempted to paint the search as a Democratic-led campaign to block his bid for president in 2024 and as the weaponization of the criminal justice system.
Despite the White House claiming to be unaware of it and the fact that Christopher Wray, the FBI’s director, was chosen by Trump five years ago, this is the case.
“These are grave days for our Nation,” Trump wrote, “as my magnificent home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, being raided, and being occupied by a big group of FBI investigators.”
He declared, “A President of the United States has never experienced anything like this before.”
“This surprise raid on my residence was not necessary or appropriate,” I told the relevant government agencies after working with them.
Dena Iverson, a spokeswoman for the Justice Department, would to comment on the search, including whether or not Merrick Garland, the attorney general, had personally approved it.
Trump made no mention of the reason for the search, although the Justice Department has been looking into possible classified information management violations.
Following the announcement that it had acquired from Mar-a-Lago 15 boxes of White House papers earlier this year, including records containing classified information, the National Archives and Records Administration made the announcement.
Trump should have turned over such information after leaving office, according to the National Archives, which requested an investigation from the Justice Department.
There are numerous federal rules that regulate the handling of sensitive government documents and classified records, including laws that make it illegal to take such information out of the proper area and store it there.
Federal officials seeking a search warrant must first show a judge that they have reasonable cause to believe that a crime has been committed, even though a search request does not imply that criminal charges are imminent or even expected.
Under the condition of anonymity, two people with knowledge of the situation claimed the search took place earlier on Monday and was connected to the records investigation.
Agents were also checking Trump’s estate to determine if there were any other presidential records or any sensitive documents.
In the past, Trump has insisted that the release of presidential documents occurred “in a usual and routine process.”
The search was conducted because “the National Archives wanted to confirm whether or not Donald Trump had any records in his possession,” according to his son Eric, who appeared on Fox News on Monday night after spending the day with his father.
When asked how the papers wound up to Mar-a-Lago, Eric responded that the boxes were among the things that were removed from the White House on Inauguration Day during the “six hours.”
My father always saved press cuttings, he claimed. When he left the White House, he had boxes.
Trump left New York City’s Trump Tower.
During a tele-town hall on behalf of Leora Levy, the Connecticut Republican he has endorsed in Tuesday’s US Senate primary to choose a general election opponent against Democratic US Senator Richard Blumenthal, Trump did not bring up the search in his first public remarks since word of it broke.
Late last week, Trump publicly endorsed Levy, calling her on Monday the greatest choice “to replace Connecticut’s joke of a senator.”
He nonetheless referred to the investigation as a “weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for President in 2024” in a social media post.
Ronna McDaniel, chair of the GOP National Committee, called the search “outrageous” and said it was a good reason for people to vote in November.
Republican governor of Florida Ron DeSantis, who is tipped to run for president in 2024, called it “an increase in the weaponization” of US government organisations.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy declared in a tweet that the Justice Department “has reached an untenable stage of weaponized politicisation” and promised an investigation if Republicans take control of the U.S. House.
It is all the more surprising that Trump would get involved in an investigation into the handling of classified information given how he attempted to use an FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state to his advantage during the 2016 presidential campaign.
James Comey, the then-director of the FBI, came to the conclusion that Clinton had given and received secret information, but the FBI did not recommend filing criminal charges against her because it found she had no malicious intent to break the law.
Trump criticised that choice and then increased his criticism of the FBI when they started looking into possible collusion between his campaign and Russia to swing the 2016 election.
During that investigation, he fired Comey, and even though he later nominated Wray, he frequently lambasted him in his capacity as president.
There has never been a previous instance of a former president facing an FBI raid, even going back to the Watergate scandal, according to Thomas Schwartz, a history professor at Vanderbilt University who specialises in presidential history and writing.
Schwartz pointed out that much of President Richard Nixon’s documents remained in Washington, DC, for years before being moved to his presidential library in California. President Nixon was not permitted to take tapes or other materials from the White House when he resigned in 1974, Schwartz said.
The Trump era was distinct, and this shows it, according to Schwartz, author of “Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography.” How his actions were so odd.
Trump faces a number of legal issues in addition to the investigation.
A different inquiry into Trump’s and his allies’ attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, which sparked the melee at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, has also been gaining steam in Washington.
A number of former White House employees have been summoned by grand juries.
Additionally, a district attorney in Georgia’s Fulton County is looking into possible attempts by Trump and his close friends to tamper with the election there, which was won by Democrat Joe Biden.