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Former President Donald Trump’s niece Mary Trump, a psychologist is suggesting Jared Kushner is the possible mole behind the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago estate last Monday.
Mary said Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law married
to the former president’s elder daughter Ivanka Trump was the most likely
confidential source that tipped off the FBI to what confidential documents were
being held at Mar-a-Lago and where they were located, Newsweek reports.
Kushner and
Ivanka both served at the White House as advisers to the Trump administration.
A report by
Newsweek Wednesday cited two senior government officials as confirming that a
confidential source provided the information to federal authorizes which
necessitated the Mar-a-Lago raid. The
raid by FBI agents led to the recovery of 11 sets of classified documents in 20
boxes held up at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Attorney General Merrick Garland
said he personally approved the search warrant unsealed by a judge last Friday
after less intrusive method of getting the records fail.
Newsweek
quoted an interview with the Dean Obeidailah Show on Friday where Mary was
asked who the informer could be. She responded that it was “tough to choose,”
but pointed to Kushner.
Kushner was confidential source that tipped off FBI to classified documents in Mar-a-Lago - Mary Trump
"I
think we need to look very hard at why Jared got $2 billion. We need to look
very hard at why he has been so quiet for so many months now. And we need to
think about who, if it, who could also be implicated in this that would need as
big a play as turning Donald in, in order to get out of trouble, or at least to
mitigate the trouble they're in," Mary Trump said, Newsweek reported.
"It
sounds like somebody in Jared's position. I'm not saying it's Jared, but it
could be," she added.
Kushner got $2 billion from Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund
Newsweek
reported that Mary Trump appeared to be referring to the $2 billion investment
Kushner got from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund about six months after
Trump’s exit from the White House.
Donald
Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen is also pointing fingers to Kushner or
one of his children.
"It's
definitely a member of [Trump's] inner circle," Cohen told Insider on
Thursday, according to Newsweek. "I would not be surprised to find out it
is Jared or one of his children." Others have speculated that Trump's
former chief of staff Mark Meadows may have provided the information to the FBI,
according to Newsweek.
FBI seized classified documents from Trump's Mar-a-Lago
FBI agents
found 11 sets of classified documents among 20 boxes as well as one labeled
“various classified/TS/SCI documents,” meaning top secret/sensitive
compartmentalized information, according to The Hill. Others include binders
full of photos, handwritten notes and the executive grant of clemency which
Trump gave to his ally Roger Stone.
Some of the
seized documents include some marked top secret as well as “sensitive
compartmented information,” according to The Associated Press. Sensitive
compartmented information is a special category meant to protect the nation’s
most important secrets that could cause “exceptionally grave” damage to U.S.
interests if made available publicly, according to The Associated Press. No
specific details were made about documents by the court records.
FBI investigating violations of federal laws in Mar-a-Lago
The warrant
says federal agents were investigating potential violations of three different
federal laws, governing gathering, transmitting or losing defense information
under the Espionage Act and another statute that addresses concealment,
mutilation or removal of records, according to The Associated Press. The third
statute addresses the destruction, alteration or falsification of records in
federal investigations.
Following
the unsealing of the documents, the agency believes Trump may have violated the
Espionage Act of 1917, among other potential crimes.
Officials
took three items labeled “confidential,” three labeled “secret” and four
labeled “top secret.”
Former
President Donald Trump Saturday dismissed the recovery of “top secret”
classified documents by the FBI at his Florida Mar-a-Lago estate as a “hoax and
scam”. Mr. Trump was speaking following
the unsealing of a search warrant Friday by a federal judge that authorized FBI
agents to enter his residence to recover sensitive records.
"Like
all of the other Hoaxes and Scams that they've used to try and silence the
voice of a vast majority of the American People, I have TRUTH on my side,"
Trump wrote in a statement Saturday, "and when you have TRUTH, you will
ultimately be victorious!"
On Friday
Trump issued a statement saying the documents seized by FBI agents were “all
declassified,” arguing that he would have turned them over if the Justice
Department demanded for them.