The DOJ has Mar-a-Lago surveillance tapes too
For more than half a year we’ve seen periodic pieces of information surface which made fairly clear that the DOJ was investigating Donald Trump and that the probe was making substantial progress. All that time we had to listen to large chunks of the media and pundit class absurdly insist that nothing could possibly be happening. We tried to explain that if certain isolated details such as grand jury proceedings were leaking out, then it meant a whole lot more had to be going on behind the scenes.
Sure enough, the DOJ’s search and seizure warrant carried out at Mar-a-Lago on Monday did not come out of nowhere. As reported by the New York Times last night and flagged by Mueller She Wrote, it turns out the DOJ subpoenaed and obtained Mar-a-Lago’s surveillance tapes awhile back. It also reached out to Trump’s former executive assistant Molly Michael – a name that first surfaced months ago – in an apparent attempt at getting her cooperation.
This would seem to help explain how the DOJ was able to meet the high legal bar required to get a federal judge to sign off on a search and seizure warrant of Trump’s home. It apparently had surveillance tapes, inside witnesses, you name it. This kind of evidence-building is not assembly line work. It takes a unique skillset, and it takes time. This is the stuff that was really going on while the worst pundits on TV and Twitter were dishonestly insisting the DOJ was doing “nothing.” Let’s keep that in mind going forward.
