Trump Has Tuesday Public Freakout Over FBI Raid On Mar-A Lago

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Donald Trump keeps getting things extremely wrong.

A high-ranking agent at the FBI apparently resigned this week amid accusations trumpeted by the Right that they effectively worked to shield Hunter Biden, a son of the current president, from certain investigative scrutiny. There’s no apparent indication that this individual, Timothy Thibault, was substantively involved in the criminal investigation at the Justice Department into the handling of government records from Trump’s administration. That investigation, of course, directly led to the recent raid of Trump’s southern Florida property known as Mar-a-Lago, where FBI agents recovered even more classified documents after previously discovering materials related to clandestine human intelligence sources in materials reclaimed from Trump. In a Truth Social post this Tuesday, Trump got the departed agent’s status brazenly wrong.

“The fired agent was in charge of the Mar-a-Lago Raid, and the Election investigation,” he claimed. “How’s he doing?” Trump also included claims about the agent in other comments on Truth Social from Tuesday. “Presidential Records Act was fully adhered to by me, but not by the FBI,” Donald angrily insisted. “They RAIDED my home (4th Amendment anyone?). Agent In Charge was just walked out of the FBI Headquarters Building for wrongdoing. He was also involved with the 2020 Election Hoax, the Crime of the Century!!!”

An article Trump himself shared on Truth Social claims that Thibault allegedly made deceptive moves “to secure [top Justice Department officials’] approval to open an investigation into… Trump in 2020 unrelated to the raid.” The matter was unrelated to the raid. In addition, escorting Thibault out of the building is simply standard procedure in situations with similar circumstances. The FBI isn’t exactly known for ignorantly harboring potentially massive security breaches like letting a retiring agent walk around unobstructed. It doesn’t say much of anything about Thibault himself. Before he was removed from his leadership role at the FBI’s Washington field office after Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) brought allegations about Thibault’s allegedly politically slanted conduct to the attention of FBI Director Christopher Wray, Thibault was one of 13 assistant special agents in charge at the Washington office.

In a post on Truth Social from the middle of the night, Trump once again demanded a do-over election — or that the appropriate legal authorities declare him the rightful winner of the 2020 presidential race. “The Presidential Election was BADLY & IRREPARABLY TAINTED by the FBI’s FAKE description of the “Laptop from Hell” to Facebook & the LameStream Media – & for MANY other reasons as well,” Trump insisted. The FBI apparently never explicitly mentioned the Hunter Biden laptop to Facebook. The agency simply provided broad warnings about potential foreign information operations amid concerns about the source of the laptop story.

“Declare the rightful winner, or hold a new Election, NOW!” Trump added in the post. “Our Country, which is failing badly, knows the “score,” and will never accept Criminal Election Interference. The FBI just fired its Special Agent In Charge of this outrageous & very illegal assault on the Constitution of the United States of America!” It doesn’t seem Thibault was actually “in charge” of the Hunter Biden laptop investigation.