Social Media Reels After Reports Suggest FBI Was Looking For Documents Related To Nuclear Weapons At Mar-a-Lago

August 12th, 2022 - 12:51 PM EDT by Adam Downer

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Yet another incredible development in the story surrounding the FBI's Raid of Mar-a-Lago dropped last night after the Washington Post reported that sources close to the case informed them that the FBI was looking for nuclear documents.

Monday's FBI raid of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home has produced bombshell after bombshell in a matter of days. Initially, it was thought the raid was conducted on behalf of the National Archives, which has reportedly been dogging Trump for months to recover Presidential records that he improperly kept.


Trump railed against the invasion of his Florida property, bemoaning how the FBI "broke into his safe" and later suggested the FBI was planting evidence to make him appear to be a criminal. Many of his conservative allies attempted to paint the raid as a partisan attack by the Biden White House to thwart Trump's future political plans. Some more centrist thinkers worried the raid, should it not produce anything "juicy," only served to galvanize Trump's base.

The days of finger-pointing and viral debates, not to mention a violent attack on the Cincinnati, Ohio FBI headquarters that resulted in the attacker's death, prompted Attorney General Merrick Garland to come forward and announce he had moved to unseal the warrant that allowed for the Mar-a-Lago raid, a move that would make public knowledge the cause for the search, as well as what the FBI was looking for.


Hours after Garland's fiery statement, the Washington Post reported that sources told them the FBI was looking for nuclear documents at the Mar-a-Lago. The sources did not clarify if the classified documents related to America's nuclear capabilities or another nation's, nor did they clarify if the FBI found said documents.

David Laufman, the former chief of the Justice Department’s counterintelligence section, told the Post, "If [the report about the FBI searching for nuclear documents] is true, it would suggest that material residing unlawfully at Mar-a-Lago may have been classified at the highest classification level. If the FBI and the Department of Justice believed there were top secret materials still at Mar-a-Lago, that would lend itself to greater ‘hair-on-fire’ motivation to recover that material as quickly as possible."

The report has rattled some prominent conservatives, as clear chinks in their united support of Trump began to form following the development.

Some viewers noted that a clip from The Ingraham Angle found Laura Ingraham, one of the most outspoken conservatives in media, grilling Trump's lawyer Christina Bobb about what she knew of the FBI's search. Some interpreted the clip could be potentially damaging to Trump, as in her denial of nuclear documents, Bobb stated that Trump's legal team went through the documents at the Mar-a-Lago — which they purportedly didn't have the security clearance to do.


Other conservatives have attempted to splash water on the "nuclear documents" story by arguing that if that is what the FBI was searching for, it's suspicious they waited until 18 months after he left to go and get them.


In the past 24 hours, Trump has, in separate statements, agreed to make the warrant public, said the "nuclear documents" issue was a "hoax" and tried to deflect by saying former President Barack Obama kept "33 million pages of documents" and said "word is, lots" of those documents "pertained to nuclear" (it appears he was referring to Obama's Presidential Library in Chicago). Some also noted that the last statement could be interpreted as a confirmation of the "nuclear documents" story.


Amidst the chaos, social media spun with jokes and commentary about the rapidly developing story, as the fiasco appeared to many that Trump and his cohorts were essentially digging their own legal grave while his supporters grasped at straws to defend him.


On August 25th, a judge will rule on whether the warrant should be made public, and it seems likely that will happen considering Trump's stated agreement with the DOJ's move to do so. This appears to indicate the case will continue to get more alarming, and quickly.



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