{"id":1615108,"date":"2022-08-18T16:42:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T20:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1615108"},"modified":"2022-08-18T16:43:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T20:43:10","slug":"report-fbi-was-after-documents-trump-believed-would-exonerate-him-from-russia-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-fbi-was-after-documents-trump-believed-would-exonerate-him-from-russia-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: FBI Was After Documents Trump Believed Would \u2018Exonerate\u2019 Him From Russia Conspiracy"},"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\">26<\/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%2Freport-fbi-was-after-documents-trump-believed-would-exonerate-him-from-russia-conspiracy%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=1615108&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>The FBI was reportedly seeking documents President Donald Trump believed would exonerate him from Russian collusion claims and other election-related charges when agents raided his Mar-a-Lago residence, anonymous intelligence officials told Newsweek.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI collected all of the documents that were government property and used concerns about classified documents to justify the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/09\/donald-trump-raid-mar-a-lago-fbi-federal-bureau-of-investigations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">raid<\/a>, but agents were looking for Trump\u2019s personal stash containing documents related to Russian collusion accusations against him, fearing that he would \u201cweaponize\u201d them, Newsweek <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/fbi-sought-documents-trump-hoarded-years-including-about-russiagate-1734280\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. One former Trump official said he may have planned to use the documents to help in a presidential run in the coming term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump was particularly interested in matters related to the Russia hoax and the wrong-doings of the deep state,\u201d the official told the outlet, adding that he may have intended to use the documents in a 2024 presidential campaign. \u201cI think he felt, and I agree, that these are facts that the American people need to know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Newsweek went on:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7505273\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7505273\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7505273\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-16T135131Z_2_LYNXMPEI7F0JB_RTROPTP_4_USA-TRUMP-DOCUMENTS-1-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of former U.S. President Donald Trump&#039;s Mar-a-Lago home after Trump said that FBI agents searched it, in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. August 15, 2022. REUTERS\/Marco Bello\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-16T135131Z_2_LYNXMPEI7F0JB_RTROPTP_4_USA-TRUMP-DOCUMENTS-1-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-16T135131Z_2_LYNXMPEI7F0JB_RTROPTP_4_USA-TRUMP-DOCUMENTS-1-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-16T135131Z_2_LYNXMPEI7F0JB_RTROPTP_4_USA-TRUMP-DOCUMENTS-1-620x413-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-16T135131Z_2_LYNXMPEI7F0JB_RTROPTP_4_USA-TRUMP-DOCUMENTS-1-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-16T135131Z_2_LYNXMPEI7F0JB_RTROPTP_4_USA-TRUMP-DOCUMENTS-1-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-16T135131Z_2_LYNXMPEI7F0JB_RTROPTP_4_USA-TRUMP-DOCUMENTS-1-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7505273\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of former U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago home after Trump said that FBI agents searched it, in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. August 15, 2022. REUTERS\/Marco Bello<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe sought-after documents deal with a variety of intelligence matters of interest to the former president, the officials suggest\u2014including material that Trump apparently thought would exonerate him of any claims of Russian collusion in 2016 or any other election-related charges.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Initial reports of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/08\/donald-trump-statement-fbi-raid-mar-a-lago-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mar-a-Lago raid<\/a> focused on a trove of classified documents Trump was reportedly storing at the Florida residence, including 42 boxes of classified documents that had been accidentally shipped there during his move from the White House, according to Newsweek. A report from the Washington Post also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=washington+posr+nuclear+weapons&#038;rlz=1C5AVSZ_enUS707US713&#038;oq=washington+posr+nuclear+weapons&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64.4482j0j7&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claimed<\/a> the search was related to nuclear information in classified documents Trump possessed. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/09\/the-american-people-are-not-stupid-most-believe-there-are-two-tiers-to-justice-system-poll-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Most Believe There Are Two Tiers To Justice System, Poll Finds)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey collected everything that rightfully belonged to the U.S. government but the true target was these documents that Trump had been collecting since early in his administration,\u201d the source told Newsweek.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI was reportedly seeking documents President Donald Trump believed would exonerate him from Russian collusion claims and other election-related charges when agents raided his Mar-a-Lago residence, anonymous intelligence officials<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"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-1615108","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\/1615108","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\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615108\/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=1615108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}