A theory… perhaps even just a hypothesis…
The FBI brought in a safe cracker to break into an empty safe…
I heard a story once about a king or a general who suspected he had disloyalty in his ranks. He told each of his advisors a different secret strategy that he was going to employ. Based on the behavior of his enemies, he could figure out who the spy was. I wish I could remember who this was. Maybe it was Sun Tzu or something. No matter. The concept is the thing.
I think they were looking for the Crossfire Hurricane documents he declassified and then asked to be made publicly available on his way out of office. They were never revealed and instead immediately re-classified by Biden. THAT is what Trump has. Trump knows what he has and how sensitive it is. He’s got the receipts. He’s got names and specifics.
Betcha he told someone he keeps it in the safe in Mar-a-Lago. OR what if he suspects he’s being listened in on or a room is bugged. He says really loudly Gosh I hope they don’t look in the safe in Mar-a-Lago. That’s where I keep the files about Crossfire Hurricane. (Is it really lying to the FBI if you lie to an illegal listening device? Maybe if they left more bugs behind he’ll have even more fun with them…)
The truth is probably that he keeps those documents with him 24/7. Or maybe he holds them somewhere as a dead man’s switch.
That’s why he wasn’t sweating during that raid. That’s why his demeanor was what it was. That’s why he broke the story at all. When they raided Roger Stone, CNN was coincidentally right outside to capture the whole thing. I think the FBI wanted to quietly swoop in, get the goods and get out. There was no press on hand. No one would have known about this but for Trump announcing it on Truth Social.
If they were expecting to perp-walk him, they would have prepared a whole press event, podium and everything. And they would have planned it for when he was there. If Trump was nervous about a perp-walk or had actual skeletons in those closets, he would have kept it under wraps. A perp walk is never a good look for a candidate. He wouldn’t want the embarrassment.
He was cool as a cucumber.
His announcement was almost a gotcha. The FBI is saying they have a confidential inside source. I bet Trump knows exactly who their source is.
And while much of the legal world, even his supporters, are expecting an indictment and a perp walk… imagine if he has engineered a Dead Man’s Switch of those files… Can they, would they, do that knowing the release of the files would be the result? If controlling and suppressing those documents was the whole point… and the whole point of Crossfire Hurricane was to keep him from office… The FBI is in a very interesting predicament.
It is possible Trump is using their own corruption against them. He knows his Sun Tzu.