{"id":1603180,"date":"2022-08-12T11:49:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T15:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1603180"},"modified":"2022-08-12T12:07:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T16:07:47","slug":"former-fbi-agent-says-mar-a-lago-raid-was-governments-attempt-to-embarrass-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-fbi-agent-says-mar-a-lago-raid-was-governments-attempt-to-embarrass-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Former FBI Agent Says Mar-a-Lago Raid Was Government\u2019s Attempt to \u2018Embarrass\u2019 Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-fbi-agent-says-mar-a-lago-raid-was-governments-attempt-to-embarrass-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1603180&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Greg Schaffer, a retired FBI agent for the elite hostage rescue team, said that the agency\u2019s raid on former President Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida on Aug. 8 was \u201ccompletely and totally unprecedented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what the FBI, Department of Justice, or this administration was thinking by doing this,\u201d Schaffer said in an Aug. 10 interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntd.com\/analysis-on-the-optics-manner-and-details-of-the-fbis-raid-on-trumps-florida-home_822695.html\">NTD<\/a>. \u201cIt was an overt act meant to embarrass the former president. It just shows the total lack of optics on their end. The rule of law obviously does not play equal on both sides anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the raid, Trump\u2019s attorneys on the site were not allowed to watch what the FBI agents were doing, which Schaffer said was also unprecedented.<\/p>\n<p>Schaffer said that during most of the search warrants he executed as an FBI agent, the owner of the property usually watched over the agents to monitor what they were doing as they looked for the items included in the warrant.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-FBI agent said that a subpoena, which could have been done behind the scenes without embarrassing the Trump family or the Trump organization, would have been a \u201cmuch better course of action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schaffer said he\u2019s concerned about the heavy-handed way the raid was conducted, and that it was an intentional decision of the Biden administration as a \u201cshow of force,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Government Reacts to Public Outrage<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 11, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) asked a federal court to make the materials of the search warrant public.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to The Epoch Times, John Malcolm, director of the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation, said the government\u2019s move to unseal the documents might be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/biden-administration-asks-court-to-unseal-trump-search-warrant-materials_4658866.html\">response to public outrage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that this is an attempt by the Department of Justice\u2014who may have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Schaffer, a retired FBI agent for the elite hostage rescue team, said that the agency\u2019s raid on former President Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida on Aug. 8 was \u201ccompletely and totally unprecedented.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t know what the FBI, Department of Justice, or this administration was thinking by doing this,\u201d Schaffer said in an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":1433187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1603180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1433187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}