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Trump’s Mar-A-Lago Home Raided by FBI
Via Fox News.
Former President Trump on Monday said that his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida is “under siege” by a “large group” of FBI agents.
“Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before. After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate,” Trump said. “It is prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for President in 2024, especially based on recent polls, and who will likewise do anything to stop Republicans and Conservatives in the upcoming Midterm Elections.”
“Such an assault could only take place in broken, Third-World Countries. Sadly, America has now become one of those Countries, corrupt at a level not seen before,” Trump said, alleging that the FBI agents broke into his safe.
“What is the difference between this and Watergate, where operatives broke into the Democrat National Committee?” he said. “Here, in reverse, Democrats broke into the home of the 45th President of the United States.”
Multiple sources tell Fox News the FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago is related to the materials Trump allegedly brought to his private residence after his presidency concluded. That matter was referred to the Justice Department by the National Archives and Records Administration, which said it found classified material in 15 boxes at the residence.
Per the CNN article, he was not home at the time.
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I remember when Hillary claimed she didn’t know that the classified markings on her classified documents meant that they were classified. She wants us to believe she’s just too dumb.
“Too drunk” is certainly a possibility, but she is a clever, evil snake.
I think your assessment of the outcome is correct. I am just saying that they don’t want the actual war part that would be their plan backfiring. They want something small and contained that they can spin into a pretext to crack down. I doubt the idea that it could spin out of control even crossed their minds. I am sure they will be shocked when it actually happens.
If you are right they all need to be fired. Not understanding that this is an explosive escalation is being criminally incompetent.
You mean (C) doesn’t mean copyright?
Yeah, that. Hilarious.
I think we underestimate them and we also give them an excuse by suggesting it’s all stupidity or incompetence.
I could blame stupidity or incompetence for maybe one or two instances.
Now that we’re into dozens and dozens of such instances, . . . evil and corrupt is the only explanation.
Why not both?
There’s a lot of ground between “coldly calculated evil” and “stupidity and incompetence.” There’s greed, pride, foolishness, ignorance, lust, and a bunch of other very human failings that lead to outcomes worse than people intend or expect.
Typical of people like this. See France, in the late 18th Century
Yeah, so I guess what I’m saying is, “this is all intentional.” They are not making mistakes here. This is not an “oops we screwed up and now we need to find excuses to cover up our mess.” Things are proceeding exactly as they have planned.
I’m going with a mix, to include arrogance, laziness, stupidity, and corruption. If anyone at the FBI thought that they could get into an ex-President’s home without a microscope being placed on the entire process around the warrant, they may be corrupt, but they are also stupid.
Right? Except I’m saying that that was all factored in. So they’re not stupid. It was part of the calculation.
They know and expect their lickspittle hacks in the media to provide cover for them.
Or it’s “We can do whatever we want, and there are no consequences.”
Sure. I’d put that under the category of stupid ( and arrogant) too, if they can’t tell the difference between “no consequences” for some schmuck and no consequences for an ex- POTUS.
Well, we will see if there are any consequences. I know where I’d bet that proposition.
Real consequences will depend on what kind of case they have, but I’d say there are already consequences. Even some libs are questioning the whole thing and the it’s given some real meat to the selective prosecution thing.
Yes. That’s it exactly. Rubbing our faces in it again. “We’re untouchable and we’re going to let you know it.”
Humiliation is the point.
History has certainly shown that to be true.
I somewhat disagree with you there. I do think it was intentional and that it was done for “bad” if not “evil” reasons. I don’t know if the reaction was completely part of the calculation, although it may be. The reason I say this is because the left in general and this batch in particular have an incredibly hard time with second order thinking, so I can believe that they did this as a PR move to shore up and excite their base and maybe hoped to get something to charge Trump with and didn’t count on the backlash coming their way.
I am not necessarily discounting that it was intentional. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if we learn that they didn’t anticipate the backlash. Tactically I guess we have to assume they did it intentionally and understood the ramifications of their actions, but incompetence and posturing for their base could just as easily explain what they are doing.
I don’t think they care what their base thinks either. They’re the tail wagging that dog.
So now we’re hearing about “nuclear codes” 20 months out of office. Don’t they change those things, like, daily?
The latest from Fox News. They apparently got a copy of the inventory of items collected.
Have you been under a rock for the last 5 years?
And she didn’t realize Frank Giustra was in a deal with Russians to make hay with the uranium from our country that she helped that Canadian piece of filth get his hands on.
Oh but that happened way back in 2010, so it is ancient history. (Unlike Trump’s tax record filings from the 1990’s, which are totally recent activities.)
See I think the only people they care about is their progressive woke base. I don’t think this is the same as the base of the democratic party, those people they are definitely ignoring. They are definitely playing to the technocratic globalist elites and the D3s.
I agree. But my point is that they’re not pandering to them so much as fueling them.
One knows this is a lie because if Musk offered the Clintons $100 Billion for anything, they would sell before the ink dried.
I actually wouldn’t be surprised if it were the other way around i.e. the globalist elites are pulling the strings of the likes of Biden, Garland, and Wray. I suppose in the end it doesn’t really matter for us which way it is going we take it in the shorts either way.
And bigger is better, even for a baboon.