BUT According to Karl Rove, the Secret Service officer assigned to guard former President Donald Trump may have been the one who blabbed about the classified material in Mar-a-Lago.
Rove, 71, who served as a senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to former President George W. Bush, noted that the secret service was required to report a crime and suggested that the agent told the Justice Department that it did not collect all classified material at Trump’s home in Palm Beach, Florida, during previous exchanges.
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“The Secret Service – and this is my personal guess, I don’t have any information other than that I know the Secret Service exists – they are not legally responsible for classified material, but they are sworn federal law enforcement officers. They are law enforcement. And they are required to report the crime,” he told Fox News.
There are rumors about who in Trump’s inner orbit could have ratted him out after Newsweek The report indicated that the confidential source was the impetus for the search and confiscation of the bomb. There have been theories on the internet that everyone from Jared Kushner to Rep. Matt Goetz (R-FL) could be a rat.
Donald Trump Jr., in particular, ruled out the possibility that Gaetz was a snitch, stuttering over the congressman.
Portions of a heavily redacted affidavit for the raid, released Friday, refer to private areas of the resort, such as the foyer of the Trump residence, as dedicated through Guardian. This means that investigators were aware of an astonishing amount of detail in the layout of the former president’s house in Florida.
Karl Rove says he believes the whistleblower against Trump was a Secret Service agent: “They are sworn Fed law enforcement officers and they have a duty to report a crime.” pic.twitter.com/co7WkUkgJS
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Rove also pointed to a document signed by Trump’s lawyer, Christina Bobb, which claimed that all classified documentation in Mar-a-Lago had been discovered by the government. The newspaper “New York Times.
“Someone sent a letter and said that we do not have classified materials, and someone from the secret service said:“ I saw classified materials still here, within the walls of Mar-a-Lago, ”and was obliged to report this by chain of command,” Rove said.
A circle of Justice Department officials allegedly secretly seized additional documentation from Mar-a-Lago in June before Trump’s lawyer signed a document claiming they had returned all classified material, the publication reported.
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Rove also questioned why Trump held the papers from the start.
“Why he kept these materials when he did not have the legal authority to do so under the Presidential Records Act is beyond me,” he said.