Fox News host Jesse Waters looked stone-faced as writer and journalist Ronald Kessler listed possible secret documents that former President Donald Trump might have kept in Mar-a-Lago.
Mr. Kessler, 78, author secrets FBI and other non-fiction books about the White House, the CIA and the Secret Service appeared on Fox News Thursday.
“The level of secrecy we’re talking about here for these documents, beyond ‘top secret’ outside of ‘sensitive compartments’, could very well include plans for a counterstrike against Russia in the event of a nuclear attack,” Mr. Kessler said.
“This is what is part of the football program… when the president chooses from these documents how to respond, he must respond within 20 minutes to prevent the destruction of the United States. And this is one point that can be in these documents,” he added.
“Now the CIA is infiltrating foreign embassies, foreign leaders like Putin, and also recruiting spies abroad,” Mr. Kessler said. “So we’re talking about incredibly valuable secrets that the Russians would certainly want.”
“The Russians tried day and night to infiltrate Mar-a-Lago and quite possibly recruited spies to obtain these documents,” he said.
Sitting stone-faced during his guest’s comments, Watters stepped in to try to minimize the threat Mr. Kessler had made: “You say they might be there. We have no idea if they’re there or not, and we’ll never know. And at this point…these guys can’t be trusted because they’re lying and planting evidence that they’re alive.”
“Everyone was asked to leave the premises, they wanted to be left alone, with no witnesses to see what they were doing, taking, or hopefully not jailing,” Trump wrote in Truth Social on August 10 without proof.
Trump’s lawyers Christina Bobb and Alina Khabba made similar baseless claims, claiming that his lawyers were unable to observe the raid.
But Ms. Bobb and Eric Trump later revealed that Mr. Trump and other members of the Trump family watched the raid in real-time on surveillance footage from New York after a lawyer denied law enforcement’s request to turn off security cameras in New York. York. private club in Florida.
Former New York U.S. Attorney Sarah Krissoff said it is common practice for the FBI to clear an area that its agents must search to make sure they are safe and that there is no interference, Bloomberg reports.