Shocked Retired FBI Agent: Mar-A-Lago Raid Was Not Normal

A retired FBI supervisory special agent told One America News that Monday’s raid on President Donald J. Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida, Mar-a-Lago home was outside the normal paradigms as he knew them for 28 years at the bureau.

Jeff Danik, whose last posting was in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s field office five miles from Mar-a-Lago, said he was stunned by the news of the FBI raid.

“Shock. First thought: I was another great example of the overreach that has been going on, uh, related to issues regarding Donald Trump and his presidency,” Danik said.

“There’s nothing about the approach to Donald Trump and his presidency, his administration, or any of these potential crimes, that’s normal,” he said.

“It’s so hard to really justify a lot of the things that they do against a normal paradigm,” he said. “Seems like there’s some kind of agenda that would never apply to anybody else because in the normal world these kinds of things never happened.”

Danik, who now works as a Miami-based private consultant, specializing in litigation support services and due diligence reviews, said he was aware of reports that there was an inside source working with the FBI.

It is a big deal to set up an FBI informant for a normal citizen, let alone a former president and active political figure, he said.

“You can’t just open a source in the FBI,” he said.

“It’s a formalized process,” he said. “There’s a discussion with a prosecutor whose buy-in on the opening of that source is documented.”

The paperwork alone is a deterrent, Danik said.