These are dangerous times. Just yesterday, a man tried to gain entrance to the Cincinnati FBI field office and was eventually killed in an officer-involved shooting. There is no doubt that had that man entered the FBI offices; he would have carried out the terrorist act that he had already begun. Let’s repeat that. There was a terrorist attack on the Cincinnati FBI office yesterday. It just wasn’t particularly effective.

It is within that environment that Donald Trump handed the warrant receipts to his friends at Breitbart. In doing so, one would normally, as a matter of course, redact the names of the officers involved. Trump did not redact the names of the agents involved in the raid, nor did Breitbart, which focused upon them. As published in Breitbart (We most certainly will redact the names):

The inventory list of what was seized—or the receipt part of the document—is three pages long and constitutes two separate receipts, one that is two pages long and another that is one page long. Both receipts were signed by Trump’s attorney Christina Bobb and dated on Monday Aug. 8, 2022, at 6:19 p.m. The longer receipt was signed by FBI Special Agent XXXXXX XXXXXX  and the shorter receipt was signed by the name: “XXXXX XXXXX” and includes the title XXX. It is unclear who that person is, and the handwriting is not the clearest.

Keep in mind. Even though the warrant was about to be released to the media generally (with redactions) Trump sent this particular one directly to Breitbart. He had a reason. Trump wants those names out.

Tomorrow there is a “Fight for Trump” rally at Mar-a-Lago, starting at 11:00 a.m. The MAGAs do plan on “fighting” for Trump. Republican officials talked about “planting evidence,” and Trump talked about “planting evidence.” Now there are two specific names associated with a warrant receipt for that specific evidence. Now think back to Cincinnati and think about “fighting for Trump” over “planted evidence,” and they know who was there.

Donald Trump knew better than to hand the warrant over without the names redacted, and Breitbart knew exactly what it was doing in publishing them, even noting they were having trouble identifying one person and their title, making it clear that getting the identities straight was a priority.

So awful.

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[email protected], @JasonMiciak, with Nicole Hickman