Wait! Trump....Lied?

NEW: According to a DOJ official, the FBI is NOT in possession of former President Trump's passports. Trump had accused the FBI of stealing his three passports during the search of his Mar-a-Lago home.

— Norah O'Donnell 🇺🇸 (@NorahODonnell) August 15, 2022

And the FBI is following the rules?

We are also learning tonight that if any items not contained in the warrant were retrieved during the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago, they will be returned.

— Norah O'Donnell 🇺🇸 (@NorahODonnell) August 15, 2022

Later that same day:

Folks, please stop suggesting that either trump was wrong about the fbi taking his passports or that the fbi intentionally took them for [reasons]

Pretty clear now that they were in fact taken unintentionally and promptly returned when found https://t.co/IwMYxb68U0

— Akiva Cohen (@AkivaMCohen) August 16, 2022

And why did we believe him?

/2 On the Serious Trouble to be released tomorrow, I talk about how federal agents sometimes seize things on very odd and tenuous theories of how they're covered by the warrant. But this . . . is not a thing.

— 18Hat793 (@Popehat) August 15, 2022

Probably should have gone with tha:

So Trump team now publicizing this email, which shows:

1) DOJ obtained three passports (two expired, not one, as Trump said) and alerted Trump lawyers
2) They were recovered by a filter team, which weeds out privileged info.
3) Trump publicized this after DOJ offered them back pic.twitter.com/lz8wneIQ0a

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 15, 2022

Well, because we don’t know any better than he does, and because when public figures speak, no matter how proven they are to be liars, we listen.  “Well, he might be telling the truth this time!”

Remember that story about the boy crying “Wolf!”? Two options: 1) complete fantasy; 2) people back then learned faster than we do; we who never seem to learn at all.

This tells you all you need to know:

Wait. What?

Trump's lawyer called a reporter for insight into how the DOJ might proceed? https://t.co/9dHqqw5woZ

It's common for people who have had their homes searched pursuant to a warrant to be rattled, but the lawyer is supposed to have a clue. pic.twitter.com/eA0sR2OG3l

— Teri Kanefield (@Teri_Kanefield) August 16, 2022

The other lesson is: don’t believe anything Trump says. Anything.