FBI Was Doing Surveillance Three Floors Below Trump’s Penthouse

Interesting:

The Feds were monitoring Russian activity at Trump Tower — but it was years before President Trump ever ran for office.

The FBI had a court-sanctioned warrant from 2011 to 2013 to monitor a Russian crime organization working out of a unit three floors below President Trump’s penthouse, according to an ABC News report.

Listening in on the Russians’ happenings resulted in more than 30 people being indicted in April 2013, with federal agents raiding the Trump Tower apartment. But the mastermind, Alimzhan Tokhtakhunov, got away and has since fled the United States justice system.

Emergence of the Russian gambling wiretap comes as President Trump claims his own residence at Trump Tower was bugged at the direction of President Obama, but the intelligence community says there’s no evidence to back that up.

So the Surveillance may very well have established a listening post a couple of floors below President Trump’s Penthouse, and they would have put informants throughout the building. I would have assumed that several maintenance workers would have been under direct control of surveillance.

I say surveillance, and not FBI, because my impression is “surveillance” may not be FBI, per se. There have been cases, such as one of Clinton’s former mistresses, where it appeared FBI agents were sympathetic to the mistress’ plight, being under surveillance, and they offered her what advice they could, but those FBI agents appeared to be powerless to help her. My impression is the surveillance makes itself available to Law Enforcement, but those in charge of it have other entities they serve as well. I would not even be surprised if on paper the entire thing is privatized, and doing private sector gigs on the side.

If surveillance was in Trump Tower, supporting an FBI operation, it would not surprise me if they never left – especially if President Trump was beginning to assemble the players he would draw upon when he began his run. Given Obama’s people were dispersed throughout the machine, had surveillance incidentally noted political aspirations from Team Trump, they would have found a way to extend their activities there and keep an eye on what was going on.

I also find it interesting the target of the surveillance slipped his coverage and left the country ahead of any legal entanglements. You do not slip modern surveillance in NYC.

If I wanted to put 24/7 Surveillance on President Trump, say to try and catch him in an affair, I would approach and turn a foreigner. I would have him run illegal activities near President Trump, and I would make sure my asset got away clean before any legal costs had to be paid. You wouldn’t want him mounting a defense of, Agent Andrew McCabe asked me to do it in open court. If you pulled it off you would have perfect cover to set up a major operation right next door.

Trump may have more tweets to come, probably at the exact moments large legislative battles are facing his administration.

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