During his booking at the NYPD Jail, Bush’s fingerprints were submitted to the National Crime Information Center, which immediately reported Bush’s true identity. Questioned by Secret Service at the scene, Bush who initially identified himself as Barry Franklyn, remained silent offering no explanation for why he broke security at the Trump Tower.Īccording to the NYPD source, Bush was arrested for trespassing and for illegally carrying a pistol fitted with an illegal silencer. Interestingly the suspect who was found with a semi-automatic handgun fitted with a silencer has been identified as Barry Lee Bush, a former Newark NJ FBI agent who has been dead since 2007.Ī Secret Service agent discovered Bush after he had circumvented a security partition on the bottom floor of the Trump Tower. In exchange with associates, Trump has asked whether anyone in MAGA world could be “wearing a wire” or if his phones are “tapped.” In private, associates of the former president told Rolling Stone that Trump remains focused on getting back “all” of the documents - even classified ones - taken by the FBI back, referring to them as “mine.On 2 August 2016 the web site Get Off the BS published an article reporting that a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who had purportedly been killed in 2007 had just been captured during an attempt to sneak into Trump Tower that same day armed with an illegally silenced pistol:Ī source within the NYPD has reported that an armed 62 year old man tried to sneak in to the Trump Tower late Tuesday night.

The increased law enforcement scrutiny since the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago has prompted Trump to wonder aloud who in his circle could be helping the Justice Department’s investigation. In August, Rolling Stone reported that FBI agents had interviewed former Trump National Security Council staff and asked them whether they were aware of the so-called standing declassification order that Trump’s office has claimed the former president put in place for classified materials taken from the West Wing. The FBI has been quietly interviewing a number of former Trump associates as part of its inquiry into his retention of classified documents. Trump Lies That He Can’t Testify Because of His Gag Order The interviews suggest that the Justice Department may believe that Trump’s retention of documents extended beyond Mar-a-Lago, though it’s unclear if there’s any evidence Trump is storing documents outside his Florida property. Trump attorneys and a spokesperson for the former president did not respond to requests. The Justice Department declined a request for comment from Rolling Stone. “It was obvious they wanted to know if this went beyond just Mar-a-Lago,” the first source says. The feds specifically discussed both the New York City and Bedminster locations with certain witnesses. The FBI, according to these sources, had also asked in recent months whether the ex-president had a habit of transporting classified documents from his Florida estate Mar-a-Lago to the other Trump properties. Federal investigators have asked multiple witnesses if they knew whether Donald Trump had stashed any highly sensitive government documents at Trump Tower in Manhattan or at his private club in Bedminster, New Jersey, a person familiar with the matter and another source briefed on the situation tell Rolling Stone.

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