{"id":1603278,"date":"2022-08-12T12:35:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T16:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1603278"},"modified":"2022-08-12T12:35:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T16:35:36","slug":"informant-very-close-to-trump-may-have-tipped-fbi-ex-chief-of-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/informant-very-close-to-trump-may-have-tipped-fbi-ex-chief-of-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Informant \u2018Very Close\u2019 to Trump May Have Tipped FBI: Ex-Chief of Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Finformant-very-close-to-trump-may-have-tipped-fbi-ex-chief-of-staff%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=1603278&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>Trump lawyer refutes claims of an informant, says &#8216;I&#8217;ll believe it when I see it&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Former White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said that some close to President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> may have tipped off the FBI before its raid Monday.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by a CNN reporter Thursday about whether a person in \u201cTrump\u2019s orbit\u201d tipped off the FBI and knew where documents at Mar-a-Lago were,\u00a0Mulvaney said that person would have been \u201creally close\u201d to the former president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t even know there was a safe at Mar-a-Lago, and I was the chief of staff for 15 months. This would be someone who was handling things on day to day, who knew where documents were, so it would be somebody very close to the president,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy guess is there is probably six or eight people who had that kind of information. I don\u2019t know the people on the inside circle these days, so I can\u2019t give any names of folks who come to mind, but your instinct, I think, is a good one. If you know where the safe is, and you know the documents are in 10 boxes in the basement, you\u2019re pretty close to the president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> No Confirmation of Informant <\/p>\n<p>The Epoch Times has contacted several Trump spokespeople for comment. Neither Trump, his lawyers, nor members of his family have publicly commented on whether they believe an FBI informant tipped off the raid.<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer for Trump, Christina Bobb, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IngrahamAngle\/status\/1558106040314609666\">told<\/a> Fox News on Thursday that left-wing legacy media outlets are trying to \u201csow division\u201d with the former president\u2019s camp about an informant. Bobb said that regarding an informant, \u201cI\u2019ll believe it when I see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After serving as Trump\u2019s chief of staff, Mulvaney was appointed to a position as special envoy to Northern Ireland after the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said that some close to President Donald Trump may have tipped off the FBI before its raid Monday. When asked by a CNN reporter Thursday about whether a person in \u201cTrump\u2019s orbit\u201d tipped off the FBI and knew where documents at Mar-a-Lago were,\u00a0Mulvaney said that person [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"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-1603278","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\/1603278","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}