Turns out the DOJ knew what it was doing with Bedminster
Ever since the DOJ had the FBI search Donald Trump’s primary residence at Mar-a-Lago last year, folks on social media have been frantically yelling “what about Bedminster?” It’s been frankly a little surreal. Were people under the impression that the DOJ simply forgot that Trump had a secondary residence? All along I’ve tried to point out the obvious: the DOJ surely followed every possible investigative angle regarding Bedminster as well, and if there was anything to find, it happened a long time ago. The fact that it wasn’t made public at the time was just standard procedure. After all, we wouldn’t have even found out the FBI had gone into Mar-a-Lago if Trump hadn’t blabbed about it at the time.
Sure enough, the Guardian is reporting today that the DOJ turned its focus to Bedminster almost immediately after the Mar-a-Lago search and seizure operation. This dates back to even before Jack Smith was on the case.
In other words, the DOJ didn’t naively or obliviously forget that Bedminster existed. There was never any chance of that. It was all over Bedminster from the start. In fact at least one of the incriminating recordings of Trump that will be used at trial was recorded at Bedminster. So it’s clear that a ton of investigative work was done on that front. And it was never as simple as the endless “search Bedminster!” tweets that we’ve had to put up with for the past nine months. Simply sending in the FBI to search the place wouldn’t have produced the incriminating recording of Trump.
As for the question of whether there are or were any classified documents at Bedminster, keep in mind that there was obviously more than enough evidence to get a search warrant for the place. So there’s a good chance the Feds already searched Bedminster, and it simply wasn’t made public.
This also points to at least the possibility that Jack Smith could end up bringing a separate criminal case against Donald Trump in federal court in New Jersey. We’ll see. But at this point it’s abundantly clear that all those frantic “what about Bedminster” tweets were for naught. The DOJ was always several steps ahead of such tweets, not behind. Then again, that was fairly self evident to begin with. In spite of what some of the most useless social media pundits would have you believe, the DOJ are not a bunch of naive oblivious idiots. They’ve been all over Bedminster since before anyone thought to start frantically tweeting about Bedminster.
