# FBI Search and Seizure at Trump's Mar-A-Lago Residence, August 8, 2022, Case Dismissed July 15, 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [August 8, 2022, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329 "2022-08-08T23:18:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 128
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/2541 "2022-09-07T00:31:33Z")
Washington post reporting that foreign nations nuclear capabilities materials were in the seizure. This is super classified stuff. Will this throw a wrench in the special master situation? There is a small group of people that can see this stuff. This is going to really put pressure on an indictment. Also finding this out and putting it in the post??!! That could complicate some peoples lives. ---
**Author:** ![loriloolee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5fc32e/32.png) [@loriloolee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/loriloolee)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/2542 "2022-09-07T00:31:45Z")
Adding to the list… Jenna Ellis Cleta Mitchell ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/2543 "2022-09-07T00:36:53Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > Will this throw a wrench in the special master situation? There is a small group of people that can see this stuff. Leaked to prevent a partisan hack from being appointed / speed things up in general. ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/2544 "2022-09-07T00:39:37Z")
20 internet quatloos betting the country is North Korea ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/2545 "2022-09-07T00:45:01Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > According to the Washington Post, extremely high level material on the nuclear capabilities of art least one foreign nation were among the documents recovered at Mar-a-lago. Hey, he’s Trump. He does whatever the fuck he wants to do. What are you gonna do? There’s nothing you can do. Ask any Republican, there’s nothing you can do. That crazy guy is gonna just keep doing his crazy stuff, and you just have to keep licking his boots. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/2546 "2022-09-07T00:54:47Z")
Could be Israel. I can see that info being of great interest to Trumps good buddies (and Jared’s investors), Saudi Arabia. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/2547 "2022-09-07T00:58:40Z")
And wouldn’t THAT open a can of worms. More like anacondas. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/2548 "2022-09-07T01:13:49Z")
There aren’t all that many options. - UK - France - Russia - Israel - Pakistan - India - China - North Korea If you don’t think the documents are random you probably give less credence to India, Pakistan, and the UK. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/2549 "2022-09-07T01:15:45Z")
Israel would be the one of most value. That’s why I think that it is about them. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/2550 "2022-09-07T01:16:21Z")
Indeed. I’m waiting for a search of bedminster. Saudis were there just a few weeks ago, and does anyone think that trump wouldn’t move a folder or two. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/2551 "2022-09-07T01:17:41Z")
Really, what’s to stop them from doing another raid and gathering new evidence? The special master only applies to what was already found, correct? ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/2552 "2022-09-07T01:18:45Z")
More like who, at this point. Garland would have to sign off on it. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/2553 "2022-09-07T01:21:28Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > And wouldn’t THAT open a can of worms. More like anacondas. As much as I would like to hope so, there is a weird gulf between Trump’s openly anti-Semitic behavior (see this [2021 Vanity Fair article](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/12/donald-trump-anti-semitism-jews-israel) for examples too numerous to list) and the adoration he receives from the people of Israel. If all the stuff he has done so far hasn’t been enough, what’s a little bit of sharing when it comes to nuclear secrets? ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/2554 "2022-09-07T01:22:05Z")
I think that’s highly plausible too ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/2555 "2022-09-07T01:27:33Z")
I’ll bet that Trump tries to assert that all of the secret documents were covered by executive privlege and so they must be returned and can’t be used against him. The real scary thing that I see with cross-administartion executive privilege is that it can be used as a weapon against the incoming administration. Imagine the outgoing president says to the incoming one, “All information regarding the activities of the executive branch over the last 4 years is privileged. Good luck running the country sucker.” And don’t for a minute think that the GOP wouldn’t do this. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/2556 "2022-09-07T01:32:44Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Imagine the outgoing president says to the incoming one, “All information regarding the activities of the executive branch over the last 4 years is privileged. Good luck running the country sucker.” The Supreme Court imagined that scenario, which is why this isn’t allowed in the law. Yet. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/2557 "2022-09-07T01:33:48Z")
Wasn’t their some speculation that the secrets included information about the Iran deal. They aren’t a full fledged nuclear power, but I think that their burgeoning nuclear program could fit under “nuclear capabilities”. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/2558 "2022-09-07T01:36:58Z")
Yeah, I almost listed them. The info is sort of ambiguous if the nuclear information is part of current defense capabilities or in addition to. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/2559 "2022-09-07T01:39:14Z")
The date on one of the documents was the day after Trump backed out of the Iran deal. Looks like the FBI left that out there in the photos as an Easter egg. I called it when I saw it. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/2560 "2022-09-07T02:15:02Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Could be Israel. I can see that info being of great interest to Trumps good buddies (and Jared’s investors), Saudi Arabia. Jared is believed to have tipped off Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) to Mohammed bin Nayef (MBN) attempting a sort of palace coup. Later MBS directed the Saudi Sovereign Fund to invest $2 billion with Jared over the recommendations of the fund’s advisors. Perhaps the investment also was for classified information at MAL or TFG’s NYC or NJ properties? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329.md?page=127) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329.md?page=129)