“If Trump is indicted, there will be riots”: Republican Senator Lindsey Graham predicts civil disorder if the former president is punished for mishandling confidential documents and asserts that the FBI is applying a “double standard.” Raid on Mar-a-Lago and Hunter Biden laptop controversy
Senator Lindsey Graham has warned of “street rioting” if former President Donald Trump is punished for his handling of secret information.
The papers were discovered during a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida by the FBI.
Graham told Fox News, “If Donald Trump is prosecuted for mishandling secret material after the Clinton catastrophe, there will be rioting in the streets.”
Graham stated that Trump is regarded differently than other individuals.
Before the 2020 election, he attempted to draw parallels between the Democrats and the investigation into Hunter Biden’s laptop and the FBI being urged to “back off.”
Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina, believes there might be “riots in the streets” if former President Trump is arrested for mishandling secret information, for which he removed 15 boxes from the White House in January 2021.
Graham stated that there was, in fact, a two-tiered legal system that supported President Biden and opposed President Trump primarily along political lines.
Most Republicans, like myself, believe there is no law when it comes to Trump. Graham told Fox News on Sunday evening, “It’s all about getting him.”
Regarding Trump, there exists a double standard. In the case of Hunter Biden, the FBI intervened to prevent the story from breaking before the 2020 election. Whistleblowers at the FBI have informed Senator Chuck Grassley that they were instructed to ease up on Hunter Biden. If Donald Trump is prosecuted for mishandling secret material in the wake of the Clinton scandal, there will be riots in the streets.
Senator Lindsey Graham has warned of “street rioting” if former President Donald Trump is punished for his handling of secret information.
The FBI discovered classified papers during a search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
The abandoned laptop of Hunter Biden has revealed his secret pornographic addiction and his predilection for filming amateur sex videos.
The adult son of the president was depicted in naked, pornographic, and drug-related photographs and videos that were found on Hunter’s laptop.
If they attempted to charge President Trump for mishandling secret information after Hillary Clinton installed a server in her basement, there would be street rioting. I fear for the nation,’ he said, equating the situation to the issue surrounding Clinton’s use of a private email server while serving as Secretary of State.
Senator Graham also raised worry over how, in his opinion, the law is implemented differently with respect to conservative Republicans.
Graham opined that the FBI’s raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago revealed the existence of a ‘double standard’ in federal enforcement, which could encourage individuals to commit violent acts.
You and I both appreciate the law. I’ve never been more concerned about the role of the law in politics than I am today. How can you convince a conservative Republican that President Trump is a product of the system? What transpired in Crossfire Hurricane, the inquiry was a farce. Individuals lied and twisted evidence. Consider what transpired with Hunter Biden. Apparently, they gave him a complete pass. And social media sources concealed potentially relevant information.
On August 9, Secret Service and local law enforcement personnel were seen in front of former President Donald Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, during a raid.
A warrant disclosed that Trump is being examined for probable violations of the Espionage Act and obstruction of justice.
The government is conducting a criminal investigation into the improper removal and storage of classified information in unauthorized spaces, as well as the unlawful concealment or removal of government records, according to an affidavit with extensive redactions, which added that there is “probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found.”
Trump has often maintained that all records stored at Mar-a-Lago were declassified after he left office and has denied any misconduct.
“The DOJ and FBI are engaging in Election Interference at the highest and most dishonest level our country has ever witnessed, both in the 2018 Midterms and the 2024 Presidential Election,” he declared on his Truth Social platform on Sunday.
Trump has often asserted that all Mar-a-Lago records were declassified after he left office and has denied any wrongdoing, including on his Truth Social platform on Sunday.
On Monday, August 8, FBI agents showed up to the Florida residence of former President Donald Trump. They removed cartons containing secret materials and other presidential records.
The Department of Justice has released the redacted affidavit detailing the events leading up to the search on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in August. According to the affidavit, 14 of the 15 boxes collected earlier this year contained sensitive information.
On Friday, the Department of Justice released a heavily redacted affidavit detailing the government’s justifications for the August raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, including a precise count of the classified or secret information that had been stored at the private club for more than a year.
DOJ states in the document that 14 of the 15 boxes retrieved earlier this year included classified information, with a newly disclosed breakdown disclosing the amount of top-secret information stored in the president’s club’s basement and other facilities.
Trump had 184 classified documents, 67 confidential, 25 top secret, and handwritten notes in boxes returned to the National Archives, according to a letter stating that the FBI had “reasonable grounds to suspect evidence of obstruction would be discovered” at his Florida residence.
Additionally, the FBI conducted the search out of concern that the leaking of classified documents could damage “secret human sources.”
The signing agent’s affidavit states, “Based on my training and experience, I am aware that papers classified at these levels frequently contain NDI,” using the acronym for National Defense Information. The agent said that several of the documents had what seemed to be handwritten annotations from the FPOTUS.
According to the affidavit, Trump’s Florida residence lacked a secure location to store the documents, so agents ordered him to lock the basement where they had been stored.
It states that ‘PREMISES are not authorized to store classified information’
The Department of Justice has released the redacted affidavit detailing the events leading up to the search on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in August. According to the affidavit, 14 of the 15 boxes collected earlier this year contained sensitive information.