Originally Posted by
BidenPresident
All my reading about the raid revealed no evidence that there was an informant. Pure media invention.
I would agree with speculative, but not an invention.
The search warrant tells what they were looking for, where they were looking, and what laws they were investigating being broken. It does not tell us the evidence that got them that far. There is the evidence that they presented to the judge, that was recused. There is also the evidence that helped them make the decision, which we may never know.
They could get the warrant with the testimony of the people who packed the boxes in the White House, and shipped them off to Palm Beach, along with testimony of the missing documents, and testimony of trump's complete failure to respond to the subpoena. That gets all the elements of probable cause, and does not require an insider, but it lacks the safety the Justice Department needs to go ahead.
The Justice Department needed to know the evidence was still in Mar A Lago. If they had done a whole raid, turned 20-40% of the country against them, and found nothing, it would have been a disaster. It would have been very easy for trump to move the evidence to New Jersey. They needed someone in the inner circle to tell them that the evidence was definitely there. That probably meant they needed to ask the person, have the person say it is there, and then have the person re-enter Mar A Lago, and actually take a photo of the evidence. That is the level of inner circle we are talking about, someone who both knows the evidence is there, and can go back and see the evidence again.
If I had to guess, I would say it is whoever is in the inner circle without trump even remembering they are in the inner circle. That could be his wife, who he seems to forget even exists half the time. But even more likely it is a member of the cleaning staff, or some other random person.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan said it best, "You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts."
Paul Begala, "Politics is show business for ugly people."
Stephen Colbert, "Reality has a well known liberal bias."
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