{"id":80672,"date":"2017-08-09T14:24:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T18:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=80672"},"modified":"2017-08-09T14:24:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T18:24:23","slug":"deep-state-harasses-donald-trump-by-going-after-friend-manafort-raids-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=80672","title":{"rendered":"<i>Deep State<\/i> harasses Donald Trump by going after friend Manafort, raids home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>FBI conducted predawn raid of former Trump campaign chairman Manafort\u2019s home<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video\/c\/embed\/2e387350-7d10-11e7-b2b1-aeba62854dfa\" width=\"480\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0Carol D. Leonnig,\u00a0Tom Hamburger\u00a0and\u00a0Rosalind S. Helderman<br \/>\nThe Washington Post<\/p>\n<p>FBI agents raided the Alexandria home of President Trump\u2019s former campaign chairman late last month, using a search warrant to seize documents and other materials, according to people familiar with the special counsel investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>Federal agents appeared at Paul Manafort\u2019s home without advance warning in the predawn hours of July 26, the day after he met voluntarily with the staff for the Senate Intelligence Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The search warrant was wide-ranging and FBI agents working with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III departed the home with various records. Jason Maloni, a spokesman for Manafort, confirmed that agents executed a warrant at one of the political consultant\u2019s homes and that Manafort cooperated with the search.<\/p>\n<p>Manafort has been voluntarily producing documents to congressional committees investigating Russia\u2019s interference in the 2016 presidential election. The search warrant indicates investigators may have argued to a federal judge they had reason to believe Manafort could not be trusted to turn over all records in response to a grand jury subpoena.<\/p>\n<p>It could also have been intended to send a message to President Trump\u2019s former campaign chairman that he should not expect gentle treatment or legal courtesies from Mueller\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>The documents included materials Manafort had already provided to Congress, said people familiar with the search.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-content inline-video\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIf the FBI wanted the documents, they could just ask [Manafort] and he would have turned them over,\u201d said one adviser close to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Stueve, spokesman for Mueller, declined to comment, as did Reginald Brown, an attorney for Manafort.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Manafort has consistently cooperated with law enforcement and other serious inquiries and did so on this occasion as well,\u201d said Maloni, the spokesman for Manafort.<\/p>\n<p>Mueller has increased legal pressure on Manafort, consolidating under his authority a series of unrelated investigations into various aspects of Manafort\u2019s professional and personal life.<\/p>\n<p>Manafort\u2019s allies fear that Mueller hopes to build a case against Manafort unrelated to the 2016 campaign, in hopes that the former campaign operative would provide information against others in Trump\u2019s inner circle in exchange for lessening his own legal exposure.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"inline-content inline-photo-left\"><a name=\"dc41bfc0914dd53f64b0cba41af0b15aab40a9a9\"><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lo-res-nosize courtesy-of-the-lazy-loader\" src=\"http:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/rf\/image_480w\/2010-2019\/WashingtonPost\/2017\/08\/09\/National-Politics\/Images\/Trump_Russia_Probe_38617-ece03.jpg?uuid=eX2PwH0CEeeDx1vVRg8Nfg\" alt=\"\" data-hi-res-src=\"http:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/rf\/image_1024w\/2010-2019\/WashingtonPost\/2017\/08\/09\/National-Politics\/Images\/Trump_Russia_Probe_38617-ece03.jpg?uuid=eX2PwH0CEeeDx1vVRg8Nfg\" data-low-res-src=\"http:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/rf\/image_480w\/2010-2019\/WashingtonPost\/2017\/08\/09\/National-Politics\/Images\/Trump_Russia_Probe_38617-ece03.jpg?uuid=eX2PwH0CEeeDx1vVRg8Nfg\" data-raw-src=\"http:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/rw\/2010-2019\/WashingtonPost\/2017\/08\/09\/National-Politics\/Images\/Trump_Russia_Probe_38617-ece03.jpg?uuid=eX2PwH0CEeeDx1vVRg8Nfg\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"pb-caption\">Paul Manafort, seen in July 2016 when he was chairman of Donald Trump\u2019s presidential campaign,<br \/>\nis a focus of a special counsel investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. (Matt Rourke\/AP)<\/span><\/h5>\n<div id=\"fNrFPd2zm33Prq\" class=\"moat-trackable pb-f-theme-normal pb-f-dehydrate-false full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-page-newsletter-inLine injected-by-front-end\" data-chain-name=\"no-name\" data-feature-name=\"no-name\" data-feature-id=\"page\/newsletter-inLine\" data-pb-fingerprint=\"0fN82iUwHp7\"><\/div>\n<p>The significance of the records seized from Manafort\u2019s apartment is unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Manafort has provided documents to both the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate and House intelligence committees. The documents are said to include notes Manafort took while attending a meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower in June 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Emails show Trump Jr. took the meeting and invited Manafort after he was promised the lawyer would deliver damaging information about Hillary Clinton as part of a Russian government effort to assist his father\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Philip Rucker, Matt Zapotosky and Julie Tate contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/fbi-conducted-predawn-raid-of-former-trump-campaign-chairman-manaforts-home\/2017\/08\/09\/5879fa9c-7c45-11e7-9d08-b79f191668ed_story.html?utm_term=.78957c89a3b2\">http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/fbi-conducted-predawn-raid-of-former-trump-campaign-chairman-manaforts-home\/2017\/08\/09\/5879fa9c-7c45-11e7-9d08-b79f191668ed_story.html?utm_term=.78957c89a3b2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI conducted predawn raid of former Trump campaign chairman Manafort\u2019s home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}