Trump Thanks FBI For Kicking Off His 2024 Reelection Campaign

First the satire:

By the Babylon Bee.

“They came into my home to make your favorite president look like a criminal. Such losers, such losers. But everyone still loves me so it’s ok. They didn’t even find anything! I’m gonna be the President again!”

Sources close to Trump say his first act as President will be to fire his own appointed FBI Director Christopher Wray and replace him with a used dust mop from the Capitol janitor’s closet before razing the Hoover building and banishing all FBI agents to Gitmo.

“I’m gonna fire everyone, literally everyone in government,” said Trump. Federal Reserve? Gone! EPA? Gone! CIA? Gone! Department of Education? ATF? HHS? Gone, gone, gone!”

The news media responded to Trump’s statement by calling him a “threat to democracy worse than Hitler” while tearing their clothes and heaping dust upon the crowns of their heads.

Then the news:

Half the country already knows the FBI Raid was not about “upholding the law” and 4 out of 5 Republicans say they are more likely to vote. The Democrats, and Team FBI may have miscalculated. They are desperate, which is perhaps the most promising sliver of light in a dark mess. They have most of the media, the Deep State, the electronic hackable voting machines, the harvesting teams, the mail in votes, no voter ID, support from the CCP, the UN and the EU, and a million new illegal voters, and despite all that, they are acting like they could lose. Remember the last two elections? They *knew* they were going to win. This is not the same.

Let’s not get cocky.

Poll: 83 Percent of GOP Voters Say FBI Raid on Trump Increases Desire to Vote

83.3% of Republicans say the raid increases their motivation to vote in 2022

47.9% of those polled say “Trump’s political enemies” were behind the FBI raid, compared to 39.7% who say the “impartial justice system” was behind it.

And they did turn out:

Turnout, Trump, and the Mar-a-Lago Raid Made for Big Upset in Connecticut

Republicans, Democrats, and independents throughout Connecticut were left reeling Tuesday night by the results of the GOP Senate primary.

In what is easily one of the Nutmeg State’s biggest upsets in recent history, former State House Republican leader and long-presumed favorite Themis Klarides lost the Senate primary to Republican National Committeewoman and former President Donald Trump-endorsed Leora Levy.

To call Levy’s upset of historic proportions is no exaggeration. In defeating Klarides, who had the endorsement of the state Republican convention, Levy became only the third Republican to win a statewide primary over the convention-endorsed candidate since primaries began in Connecticut in 1970.

“Trump voters were fired up,” said one GOP consultant who requested anonymity…

Did say “awaken the bear?”

h/t OldOzzie, David E

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217 comments to Trump Thanks FBI For Kicking Off His 2024 Reelection Campaign

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    Steve4192

    “I’m gonna fire everyone, literally everyone in government,” said Trump. Federal Reserve? Gone! EPA? Gone! CIA? Gone! Department of Education? ATF? HHS? Gone, gone, gone!”

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    THAT is a platform I can get behind. It’s largely the Ron Paul platform. Drain the Swamp indeed.

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    Richard+Ilfeld

    If you’ve lived in an echo chamber long enough, it may not be obvious that something everybody in the room thinks is a good
    idea will play really well in Peoria. This group has a proclivity to use the shock and awe of big FBI raids (think Roger Stone)
    and its easy to imagine them thinking that police cars at Mar A Lago would have an impression upon the proles different than what has
    occurred. If there was an ‘informant’, it might well turn out to be son of dossier, and they’ve submitted false warrants before (and confessed to it)

    But that’s OK; since we have “zero inflation” the wonderful economy will sweep these folks back into office and we’ll all forget this episode.

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      Gerry

      It’s astonishing how dumb the ruling class of Democrats and their supporters are…..after six years they still don’t get it ……

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        DD

        It’s astonishing how dumb the ruling class of Democrats and their supporters are …

        Not so much dumb as the fact that they do not have to consider the likely consequences of their actions, since no one is going to hold them to account.

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          Gerry

          I’ve thought more about this DD and I still think they are dumb….certainly they act as children because they aren’t held responsible for their actions as you say …… but their dumbness is, I think, due to their inability to see any their rationale for political action outside of seizing and holding onto power …. to contemplate that a person would seek office of President to make life better for millions of Americans is inconceivable ..

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      Graeme No.3

      After an outrage of Napoleon Talleyrand told him “It was worse than a crime, it was a mistake”.

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    Steve4192

    The news media responded to Trump’s statement by calling him a “threat to democracy worse than Hitler”

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    It amuses/befuddles me to no end how Acela corridor journalists somehow believe that ‘rule by unelected bureaucrats’ is what Democracy is all about. It’s the antithesis of Democracy. None of those pencil pushers have any accountability to the ‘demos’.

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      Leo G

      The news media … calling him a “threat to democracy worse than Hitler”

      Not surprising that the MSM regard Trump as a threat to ‘rule by unelected bureaucrats’ in their favoured “democracy worse than Hitler”

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    There is. Huge ‘anyone but Trump’ contingent. However whether hatred extends to the useless Biden or Harris is another matter.

    I suspect de santis would alienate less people and even attract wavering democrats.

    If the democrats put up their own powerful candidate against Trump they would likely beat him.

    Who this powerful candidate might be though is not as yet, apparent

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      erasmus

      Their own powerful candidate? Very funny.
      They have about as much chance of finding one as the ALP has.

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      Steve4192

      Yeah, that is the conundrum with Trump.

      Sure, he drives massive turnout from the Republican base, but he also drives massive turnout for the progressive base. Desantis would definitely get a lower turnout, but it might be better proportionally than the larger Trump turnout.

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        Richard+Ilfeld

        As a happy resident of the Free State of Florida, I am confident Ron DeSantis would be an electable and effective president, but not at all certain I’d not rather he stay put to continue a demonstration of what an effective democratically government looks like. Duck Duck Go ‘Andrew Gillum’ to see what the Dems tried to inflict upon us instead of DeSantis.

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          Several people from Florida have said de santis would do a good job but he was too valuable to lose from The state so hoped he wouldn’t let himself be put forward as the official republican Presidential candidate

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          I agree with you as DeSantis is much more effective as the Governor of Florida. If he ended up in DC the Swamp would most likely ‘nobble’ him.

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            bobn

            DeSantis has plenty of time. 2028 perhaps. There’s also Kristi Noem – Gov of Sth Dakota who has been outstanding and would be a great President. Dont think she wants the agro though. Ted Cruz fancies a go again and of course Rand Paul is the most honest and sensible senator in Washington. Dimocrats have no-one close to the caliber of the top 20 Republicans.

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        Lawrie

        Is that true. From afar it seems that the more reasonable Dems are becoming very disillusioned by their party’s policies and actions. Would they turn out to vote for a crooked Dem rather than stay at home and have a Trump candidate win?

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          Steve4192

          The majority of American voters registered to a party (on both sides) are low-information voters who vote for the initial next to the name. More informed voters tend to be more likely to party switch or split their ticket, but they are in the minority.

          On the plus side, registered independents are the fastest growing and currently the largest voting block in America. While some of them are independent in name only (they still have a ‘team’ even if they aren’t registered with it), a substantial number of them of politically disaffected from both sides who have shed their allegiances.

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            ghl

            Hi Steve
            I have never understood the advantage of registering to a political side. Does it increase the chance of pork? In Aus we have a strong tradition of secrecy about our vote. This perhaps makes voter fraud easier.
            Your thoughts ?

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              Steve4192

              The main reason to register with a party is because many states have ‘closed’ primaries when selecting their candidates. You can’t vote in a republican primary unless you are a registered republican (ditto for democrats). Independents have no say in who gets put on the ticket in closed primary states (but have a huge impact on who wins in the general election).

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                yarpos

                In our case the public has zero say in what candidates emerge from the Uniparty political machine and no say in the leadership. Given our general political apathy its probably appropriate.

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                The West Australia liberals (what is left of them) recently changed something about their preselection system to make the actual members of the party more influential.

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          Rupert Ashford

          They will turn out to vote…or help rig it. Just like in Aus… They will cheer on the idiots in the opposing party that think they can convince “swing voters” and “reasonable moderates” from the left but come the time to actually exercise so-called democracy (aka vote) they’ll stick to the side and not the principle.

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      another ian

      Tony

      “The Silence of DeSantis – Florida Governor Ducks Media Appearances, Records Statements, Seeking to Avoid Questions About Trump Raid
      August 10, 2022 | sundance | 1,625 Comments”

      https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/08/10/the-silence-of-desantis-florida-governor-ducks-media-appearances-records-statements-seeking-to-avoid-questions-about-trump-raid/

      Unless he does a hell of a recovery (and I haven’t seen any sign yet) that will take the lustre off your idea.

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        Steve4192

        LOL

        Recovers from what? Not talking to media? That’s a PLUS to most Republican voters, who view the press with open disdain. Desantis’ policy of not talking to the legacy press has been lionized in the conservative media and put forth as a blueprint for other republican politicians.

        Contrast Desantis’ popularity with that of establishment toady Lindsey Graham. Graham is always available for comment to the press and is a regular on the cable news networks and Sunday morning shows, but is about as popular as a dose of the clap.

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        yarpos

        A simple search reveals his statements on the topic. Not sure what else they want him to say. Just cause the MSM wants to bang on about a topic, that doesnt mean you are obliged to play.

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        tonyb

        Those who have voted for DeSantis and live in Florida seem to have a high regards for his abilities. As a result they would rather keep him as governor. That seems a pretty good recommendation to me. The reality is that Trump is like Marmite (presumably Vegimite in Oz?) and sharply divides opinion even in his own party. Someone like DeSantis seems more likely to appeal to voters across the political Divide than Trump would

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    Saighdear

    TIme to get behind the Punch n Judy stage to see who is pulling the strings and who’s all in the backrooms,

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    Late thought added:

    They are desperate, which is perhaps the most promising sliver of light in a dark mess. They have most of the media, the Deep State, the electronic hackable voting machines, the harvesting teams, the mail in votes, no voter ID, support from the CCP, the UN and the EU, and a million new illegal voters, and despite all that, they are acting as though they could lose. Remember the last two elections? They *knew* they were going to win. This is not the same.

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      Graeme No.3

      I recall Talleyrand telling Napoleon that “it was worse than a crime, it was a mistake”.

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      Richard+Ilfeld

      This is a midterm, and thus the dynamics are far different than a Presidential race. You can the electoral votes turned to swing the election to the Biden regime happened in perhaps 5 house districts out of 437; most where cheating is likely or possible are solid blue. In those where the rules still permit shenanigans, there are perhaps 20 tossup races, in districts where scrutiny on election night is possible. The senate races in WI and AZ and PA are, of course monumental risks as the same antics that installed Biden are possible in statewide elections, except that the statistical turnout anomalies (if they happen) will be much more notable with no national head-of-ticket from which to claim coattails.
      And, while there is still some ‘walking-around-money’ available, there won’t be Zuckerbucks.

      This is a much harder pull for the left; and set markers that will put them at 2024 risk as well, thankfully!

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      Ian

      It is interesting that the US Attorney General defended the search for documents at Trump’s residence as done by the book, and noted it was authorised with a warrant by a judge who found probable cause a crime had been committed.

      https://people.com/politics/attorney-general-breaks-silence-fbi-mar-a-lago-search/

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        Fidel’s men would have said the same.

        If only they could beat Trump fairly at an election they wouldn’t need to jail him or threaten and intimidate everyone who works with him. He’s the most investigated man on Earth. You think if they could have convicted him it wouldn’t already have happened?

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          Ian

          “If only they could beat Trump fairly at an election they wouldn’t need to jail him or threaten and intimidate everyone who works with him. ”

          Jo, I really don’ understand your fixation that Trump was beaten unfairly. There isn’t a shred of incontrovertible evidence to support that contention. In fact it is claimed in several different sources that Trump has admitted he lost.

          https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-admitted-he-lost-report-1370730/
          https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/bill-barr-trump-jan-6-hearing-1367289/
          https://people.com/politics/donald-trump-says-he-did-not-win-2020-election-during-zoom-call-historians/

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            If only you read my posts you might understand Ian. Election Security.

            OMG – All you have is links to Trump acknowledging that Biden was sworn in? Seriously?

            REmember if the Dems could win legally they wouldn’t need mass illegal immigration, they wouldn’t oppose border control, they would want Voter ID, and they wouldn’t stop vote counting in the middle of the night, block GOP scrutineers from the building, and they would want to ban insecure hackable electronic machines. They also wouldn’t need fake RussiaGate Scares and to censor people and hide the Hunter Biden lap top.

            That they need all these ways to cheat shows that they know the voters don’t want them.

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              Ian

              “REmember if the Dems could win legally they wouldn’t need mass illegal immigration, they wouldn’t oppose border control, they would want Voter ID, ” etc etc.

              None of the items you mention has been unequivocally shown to have played any part in the 2020 election. Why are you unable to provide some evidence that this “election wish list of the Democrats” did affect the result of the election? There is a lot of evidence that it didn’t affect the result but virtually none that it did. Even Trump says he lost surely that is evidence enough

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                It wouldn’t matter if Joe Biden told you they were doing organised fraud, you wouldn’t accept the evidence even if he said “We have put together …the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”

                oh Wait. He did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGRnhBmHYN0

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                Ian

                Yeah sure. You really are clutching at straws as you know full well Biden as unfortunately is his won’t got mixed up. The quote has been analysed re analysed and debunked.

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                Sure he just misspoke. It wasn’t like an old man with dementia forgot he was supposed to keep it secret…

                Ever worry you are farming out your brain to anyone who says what you want to hear?
                The Warning sign is when you can never explain what’s wrong with it yourself.

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                b.nice

                “The quote has been analysed re analysed and debunked.”

                LOL… By the far-left “fact checkers” that some gullible, irrational, non-thinking, people rely on for their propaganda..

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                Ian

                “Ever worry you are farming out your brain to anyone who says what you want to hear?
                The Warning sign is when you can never explain what’s wrong with it yourself.”

                As is apparent that comment explains exactly what you and others have farmed out brains to Trump falling for all his lies on the election. The warning sign is that you can never explain why there is absolutely no evidence to back Trump’s claims and stacks of evidence to refute them. You’re an intelligent woman why on earth do you refuse to accept the obvious that Trump is lying?

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                Ian. Still won’t follow my links, read my posts, or respond to the substance of my points? As things get more ridiculous you are left backed into the corner demanding 100% proof with only vague “stacks of evidence” baseless declarations.
                I’ve written 57 posts on Election fraud. you have nothing.

                If the Dems weren’t cheating to win, why did they stop the count and block the scrutineers and at the same time in more than one state? The same people who said “theres no proof” were the ones blocking the release of the voting slips and data and machines. No one has an explanation for why 2000 Mules dropped so many ballots in, one doing it 53 times. All demonstrated with security camera with phone data. But none of that exists, right? Think how easy it would have been for the Dems to unite the US if Biden had actually got 80 million votes and the Dems had nothing to hide.

                Don’t believe your lying eyes:

                Election Fraud

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              Honk R Smith

              To me it’s like an addicted person that steals money.
              “I did not steal the money!”
              “Ok, I’m suspicious, but I can’t prove you took the money, so moving on. I’d just like a little more security for my wallet.”
              Then every time you see them, they yell at you about accusing them of stealing the money and claim you are insulting them by not leaving your wallet laying around.
              Just means they stole the money.

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            Phil O'Sophical

            “There isn’t a shred of incontrovertible evidence to support that contention.”
            And I am sure the Great Barrier Reef is dying. There isn’t a shred of incontrovertible evidence to support that it’s healthy. Give us break.

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        Richard+Jenkins

        Let’s see the grounds and evidence presented to a DTS (based on his history) judge.
        Was this judge in a position to judge this or should the matter have been addressed by a better qualified and more appropriate justice?.

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        paul courtney

        Mr. Ian: You think one side of the story is interesting? Wouldn’t both sides of the story be even more interesting? I mean, if you are interested in getting at the truth. But you’ve made clear that you are not at all interested in the truth. You may not even know that the issuing magistrate judge has expressed views that, ethics-wise, require his recusal before signing the warrant? It’s safer for you to just see one side I suppose.

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    Peter Fitzroy

    Best hopes for a Trump victory in the midterms

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      el+gordo

      American politics is becoming really exciting, a charismatic populist wins back the Presidency.

      In a Third World country it would not be unexpected, but not in the US. I agree that a stunning victory in the midterms would be highly beneficial for democracy.

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    AndyHce

    My take is that the recent controversial Supreme Court decisions will result in an extra large Democratic Party victory in the mid-terms, regardless of any other issues.

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      Just+Thinkin'

      ha ha ha

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        Ian

        The Supreme Court decision on abortion has reverberated amongst many women who, because they totally disagree, may well support the Democrats

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          Scissor

          Most people favor some limits on abortion and find killing infants just prior to or even after their live birth to be morally repugnant.

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          b.nice

          Following the US Constitution is always going to upset Democrats.

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          yarpos

          You would think it would “reverberate” at State level if it did at all. All the Supreme Court did was make it a State level decision.

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          Harves

          Ian is one of those who condemns the US Supreme Court decision to give the states power to legislate on abortion while simultaneously supporting the Australian model where the states have power to legislate on abortion.

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          Bozotheclown

          Ian says:

          The Supreme Court decision on abortion has reverberated amongst many women who, because they totally disagree, may well support the Democrats

          As a percentage, pro-abortion women already vote Democrat.

          Pro abortion attitude is anti-mother (obviously anti-baby). It should be the antithesis of true feminism. Another example of Left confused thinking.

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      paul courtney

      Mr. Hce: Is your take from the US? Because the press and entertainment industry here are all in for abortion and gun control, it’s easy to get a bad take on that. The mid terms went heavily against Obama in 2010, and my take is that Dems will take a bath, in part, because their vile, disgusting support for killing the unborn is now on display, and it will not be good for the vast majority of folks. Mr. Ian’s comment indicates that he knows as much about women as any other subject- squat.

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    czechlist

    I want to see the evidence supporting the warrant and the source identified – no more “whistleblower” scat. Trump has a right to know his accuser (never happened at impeachment) and, at this level of pseudo sedition, We the People have a right to know as well. This stinks to high heaven. why a “magistrate” and not a criminal judge? (this ain’t small claims or marriage but perhaps is a dirty divorce matter). The magistrate has been anti Trump on social media and is a zero donor. Why an early morning raid? Why when DJT was not there? Why DC agents – not Florida? Why make everyone leave the building (even Secret Service) and ask security cameras be turned off. Why did SS comply? Not enough time nor space for all of the dim’s police state malfeasance.

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      John in Oz

      Why only this one home when he has several others?

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        John Hultquist

        They had been dealing (nicely) with the Trump folks for weeks. The Feds asked for a better lock (aka, security) on the space where the boxes were stored. That was done. Please do. Did. Thanks. That sort of thing.

        All knew there were boxes there, so that’s the home they went to. The questions are why now and why in that Gestapo way?

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      Mike Jonas

      Well. I want to see the evidence that could have supported warrants for Hunter Biden’s laptop and Hillary Clinton’s emails, and how it compares with the evidence fof the raid on Donald Trump.

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        Bozotheclown

        Hillary shredded her (now non-existent) evidence regularly and publicly so they know they wouldn’t find much.

        Hunter’s “evidence” is already out there so no need for a raid. (pardon the hard-drive pun there)

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    Frederick Pegler

    When the FBI looking for evidence of a crime, becomes evidence of a crime.
    They found no evidence of a crime. But the fact that they looked is proof that a crime must have been committed

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    nb

    If Democrats get swept away how will we know what shares to buy?

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    TedM

    John Solomon gives the history that preceded this raid, on Steve Bannon’s war room. https://rumble.com/v1fnibr-episode-2069-trump-served-grand-jury-subpoena-in-june-fully-complied.html
    Starts just after the 6 minute mark.

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    Honk R Smith

    Democrat TDS knows no bounds.
    It’s gonna be a wild unpredictable ride.
    I think there’s nothing they won’t do.
    There is an unholy alliance with the alphabet agencies,
    Ever since Joe was elected they’ve gone out of their way to alienate the opposing public.
    They make zero effort to persuade.
    I think it means they’ve got the ‘elections’ in the bag.
    Either controlling them or canceling them over some threat to ‘democracy’.
    They even say ‘voting’ against them is a vote against democracy.

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      Dave in the States

      From the article:

      The Go8 design is intended to put intelligence oversight upon both political parties in Congress; it is designed that way by informing the minority leaders of both the House and Senate as well as the ranking minority members of the SSCI and HPSCI. Under the concept, the President cannot conduct an intelligence operation; and the intelligence community cannot carry out intelligence gathering operations without the majority and minority parties knowing about it.

      But we have a Uniparty.

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        OldOzzie

        National Archives official who notified DOJ in Trump probe declined to do the same over Clinton emails

        Ferriero said he didn’t believe it was ‘appropriate or necessary’ to notify the DOJ about Hillary Clinton’s emails in 2015

        The official who triggered the federal probe into former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents opted against doing the same concerning Hillary Clinton’s email scandal.

        David Ferriero, who served as the director of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) from November 2009 until he retired this past April, said in a February letter to House Oversight Committee leadership that his staff had started communicating with the Department of Justice (DOJ) earlier this year.

        In January, Trump returned 15 boxes of documents from his time in office to NARA after the agency notified him the material belonged to the federal government.

        “Because NARA identified classified information in the boxes, NARA staff has been in communication with the Department of Justice,” Ferriero wrote in his Feb. 18 letter.

        After negotiations regarding additional documents broke down between Trump and federal investigators in recent months, the DOJ obtained a search warrant to obtain additional missing documents. On Monday, FBI agents raided Trump’s southern Florida home seeking the documents.

        However, Ferriero said he took a different approach in 2015 when Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Neb., who at the time chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked whether NARA had notified the DOJ about its investigation into the deletion of Clinton’s emails during her time as secretary of state.

        “The Federal Records Act requires that when a deletion occurs, the head of the agency in question must notify the Archivist, and with the help of the Archivist, initiate an action through the Attorney General for the recovery of those records,” Grassley wrote on Sept. 4, 2015.

        “Will you now request the Attorney General initiate an action for recovery for the 15 missing emails and potentially other federal records that may have been deleted by Secretary Clinton.”

        In response, Ferriero said NARA didn’t believe it was necessary to notify the DOJ about the missing emails.

        From the Comments

        – So now the National Archives is politicized as well. Are there any even-handed agencies still in existence in America?

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    Richard+Jenkins

    I think Tump means the law will take down the criminals in those organizations. Handled honestly in accordance with their sworn roles the organizations should benefit the US. Perhaps change the names. eg FBI could be NCD National Crime Department. Using FBI would have a stigma that the NCD would be above.
    Those who have acted criminally need honest REPLACEMENTS.
    This would be much smaller staffing and hence costs.
    Criminal convictions avoid redunancy and retirement packages.
    They can only blame themselves.
    Hillary has a fortune but ‘Lock her up’ where she can not enjoy her ill gotten gains!

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    OldOzzie

    dover0beach says:
    August 12, 2022 at 9:28 am

    Julie Kelly ??
    @julie_kelly2
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    Aug 11
    Replying to
    @julie_kelly2
    Cant say this enough: the guy in charge of the Washington FBI office was head of Michigan FBI office during Whitmer fednapping.

    Julie Kelly ??
    @julie_kelly2
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    Aug 11
    That means an informant was working directly with an FBI handling agent. Who was it? Was it out of FBI WFO or FLA?

    And given the quality of informants in Whitmer, I can’t even imagine who the FBI drudged up for this mission.

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    Ronin

    ” Additional 87,000 armed IRS agents’
    One could be forgiven for thinking the govt has a $ problem.

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    OldOzzie

    The Rot at the FBI Is Systemic and Ingrained

    OPINION

    The Next President Must Prioritize Destroying the Deep State

    At CPAC in Dallas this past weekend, former President Donald Trump asserted that a “key priority for the next Congress and the next president will be to drain the swamp, once and for all.” Then, reiterating a point made in a keynote address to the America First Policy Institute last month, he specified that Congress “should pass groundbreaking reform empowering the president to ensure that any federal employee who is corrupt, incompetent, or unnecessary for the job can be told, ‘You’re fired.'”

    Such legislation would essentially formalize and strengthen President Trump’s Executive Order 13957, which President Joe Biden rescinded during his first week in office. But there’s a problem: The chance of even a Republican-controlled Congress carrying out this type of reform is close to zero.

    You see, Congress itself created—and, indeed, has since protected and bolstered—the Deep State, so there’s little reason to believe it would now reverse course and eliminate it. A few decades ago, members of the legislative branch began delegating their constitutional lawmaking authority to the myriad federal agencies that constitute the executive branch. (Incidentally, no one knows the exact number of entities that make up the branch. The best estimate is somewhere around 400. Four-hundred!)

    Why? Members decided that it would be easier to avoid being judged by their records if, well, there were virtually no records to judge. Rather than be required to spend time and energy informing themselves about a range of policy issues that might be put to a vote, legislators simply passed the buck to the bureaucracy—a permanent class of purportedly altruistic “experts.” This way, members of Congress are also freed up to focus on far more important tasks of governance, such as voting to rename schools and postal facilities—all while keeping the many accoutrements of influence that come along with a comfy seat on Capitol Hill.

    President Trump is right: The only solution for genuine, lasting change is for Congress to reassume its constitutional duties.

    Congress alone controls the purse, and, therefore, has the sole capacity to starve the Deep State. That’s obviously a generational undertaking, so we must also consider a complementary near-term strategy.

    First, the next Republican president needs to grasp that winning the election means almost nothing, in terms of change. He must be ready to bust out the wrecking ball on Day 1. He needs to reimplement Schedule F and arm himself with a comprehensive playbook, filled with executive orders and innovative legal strategies. That, short of Congress rediscovering and embracing its proper role in our constitutional structure, is the best shot we have at returning the power to the people not only quickly, but also in a principled manner.

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      The US Congress has been corrupted for too long by the Lobbyists and their money (bribes). Time to ban the Career ‘Pollies’ forever. The same goes for Australia and many other ‘Western’ Countries.

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        Len

        The problem with banning long term politicians is that bureaucrats would lead the new politicians where ever they wanted. This would be tyranny by the staff.

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          Give the ‘Pollies’ one year terms only and let’s see what happens. And they can never be appointed again. Same with the Guv’ment.

          Time for proper People Power. Or, do what the Swiss do and have Referendums on just about everything.

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          another ian

          IIRC this was in a Harry Truman book whose name I don’t recall

          Could even have been in this

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKtLpjTKL2s

          He pointed out that the stability of the US system was with the bureaucrats about 4 layers down below the “up for election” layers.

          He didn’t expect those layers to be bought and sold too obviously

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    Sean Davis: Democrats Are Completely Devoted To Charging And Indicting Trump

    Co-founder and CEO of The Federalist Sean Davis to FOX News host Jimmy Failla: “To be honest, I fully expect them to indict Trump before the election. Basically, what they did with that raid is the Chekhov’s gun of political theater. Like, you can’t put a gun on stage and then not have somebody eventually get shot. That’s the rule about Chekhov’s gun. You can’t, with Democrats, go raid a U.S. president’s home and then not charge him with something. So I absolutely believe, and maybe the timing will be a little bit off, they are completely devoted and committed to charging and indicting President Trump.”

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    OldOzzie

    Reminder from SEPTEMBER 17, 2020 of Deep State Corruption

    FISA Court Confirms The Government Lied In Every Spy Warrant Application Against Carter Page

    A newly declassified ruling from a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court in June demonstrates that the government lied about its legal basis for spying on former Trump campaign official Carter Page.

    The ruling states that the information produced by the FBI’s unlawful investigation into Page was illegally obtained and that it “found violations of the government’s duty of candor in all four applications.” The ruling also orders the government that “it must temporarily retain, and potentially use and disclose, the information collected, largely in the context of ongoing or anticipated litigation.”

    Under the court’s 21-page assessment, information obtained by all four of the warrants and applications is invalidated due to its illegal acquisition, unless the Department of Justice is using it “to investigate or prosecute potential crimes relating to the conduct of the Page or Crossfire Hurricane investigations” such as the FBI’s overreach and its violations of FISA.

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    Empirical Evidence

    No doubt the Democrats will find the ‘illegal’ documents amongst the Trump dossiers. The FBI will not have made a raid without planting the evidence.

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      All the FBI found when they busted into the Don’s safe were lots of photos of Hunter Biden taking crack cocaine……….lol

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      el+gordo

      Believe it or not.

      ‘FBI sought nuclear weapons papers in raid on Trump.

      ‘Merrick Garland confirms he is seeking for the search warrant on the ex-president to be unsealed so the details can be made public.’ (Oz)

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    OldOzzie

    Yahoo News – IRS Deletes Job Posting Seeking Applicants Willing to ‘Use Deadly Force’

    The IRS deleted a job posting Wednesday seeking a Special Agent “willing to use deadly force” for its law enforcement division, Criminal Investigation (CI). The deletion came amid renewed scrutiny of the IRS in response to a Democrat-backed spending bill that would double the size of the agency.

    “As a Special Agent you will combine your accounting skills with law enforcement skills to investigate financial crimes,” the job advertisement read.

    “No matter what the source, all income earned, both legal and illegal, has the potential of becoming involved in crimes which fall within the investigative jurisdiction of the IRS Criminal Investigation. Because of the expertise required to conduct these complex financial investigations, IRS Special Agents are considered the premier financial investigators for the Federal government,” the job posting continued.

    The “Major Duties” listed in the job description included “a level of fitness necessary to effectively respond to life-threatening situations on the job,” and being “willing and able to participate in arrests, execution of search warrants, and other dangerous assignments.”

    It also included a requirement of carrying “a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary.”

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    OldOzzie

    Oversight Republicans demand National Archives head explain agency’s role in Trump raid

    Republicans on the House Oversight Committee demanded Wednesday that the head of the National Archives and Records Administration explain any role her agency played in the FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s home earlier this week.
    Rep. James Comer, Kentucky Republican, and other GOP lawmakers on the panel called on Debra Wall, the acting archivist of the United States, to answer questions and preserve documents related to the search warrant executed at Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
    “Committee Republicans are concerned that the NARA would utilize the FBI to gather documents that the president by the very nature of his constitutional role could declassify himself, if this was indeed the case as the media reported,” the GOP lawmakers wrote in a letter to Ms. Wall.

    “The Biden administration is continuing to weaponize the FBI against political rivals. To better understand the circumstances and the NARA’s role, if any, in the FBI raid, Oversight Republicans request an immediate briefing on this matter. Additionally, we request that you preserve all documents and communications referring to and related to the warrant executed by the FBI on August 8, 2022,” the letter said.

    Committee Republicans demanded a briefing from Ms. Wall no later than Aug. 17. The committee has federal oversight over the NARA.

    The Republicans accused the NARA of singling out Mr. Trump, saying that his treatment “stands starkly in contrast” with previous officials including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

    They said the 31,000 emails deleted by Mrs. Clinton during the Benghazi inquiry was greeted by the FBI with “apathy.”

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    And the knee jerk Republican response is not all about Donald Trump.

    $300Bn for Climate Change?
    Massive influx of uninvited random illegal border crossers.
    The cancellation of the very successful “stay in Mexico” deal.

    And what does the ordinary (not public servant) voter think of

    87,000 additional tax auditors.
    Even Janet Yellen has begged that they are not set to work auditing working families. But if they were not, why hire 87,000 of them?
    And while the cover story is that you will get better ‘service’ from the taxation department, these are auditors, not workers.

    And this is on top of 9.1% inflation, runaway prices. There is going to be an explosion of voter dissatisfaction in three months. The elites are going after the working class, their cars, their jobs, their factories, their trucks and even their tax returns.

    The only one who can stop Washington from persecuting everyone is the one who has already been raided, former President Donald Trump who is being dragged through court after court. Never the Clintons or the Bidens. They are untouchable.

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      TdeF

      And Biden who criticized Trumps build up of the Strategic Reserve has used 40% of it to lower fuel prices by dumping. His son even managed to sell a million barrels to China. No one says anything. At what point will President Biden stop stealing the Strategic Reserve? When there is none?

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        And where is most of Australia’s 10 minutes of Strategic Oil Reserve (sarc)? The USA that’s where. What a JOKE !!!!!

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          TdeF

          South Australia has a giant Tesla battery. A snip at $100Million. Lasts a minute or two. Gives you time to go back to the stone age smoothly. And then we can start truth telling.

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    The Swamp

    Records: Liz Cheney’s Net Worth Ballooned as Much as 600 Percent During Her Time in Office

    Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-WY) net worth ballooned from an estimated $7 million when she first took office in 2017 to possibly more than $44 million in 2020, according to analysis from the Center for Responsive Politics and her most recent financial disclosure forms.

    Depending on where she falls in the ranges in her latest financial disclosure forms, that could represent as much as a 600 percent increase in her net worth in just a few short years in Congress–a massive boom for an already-independently wealthy political scion of the powerful Cheney family which counts among its most powerful her father, former Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney.

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      Ever heard of Lobbyists donating money (bribes)? Easy money for these corrupt ‘Pollies’.

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      TdeF

      At least she is a vast inheritor, unlike poor Joe Biden whose family millions are based on his salary of $140,000 a year. What I would love to know is how anyone gets to be so rich on such a salary. A few wise investments perhaps?

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    Deep Swamp aided by the Tech Media Continues

    Remember How They Suppressed Hunter’s Laptop Story? Twitter Announces Midterms Crackdown On “Misleading” Election Claims

    “…we’ll take action against misleading claims about the voting process, misleading content intended to intimidate or dissuade people from participating in the election, or misleading claims that may undermine public confidence in elections outcomes.”

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      More – Here We Go Again!

      Twitter Announces Plan to ‘Protect’ November Midterm Elections

      ‘Misinformation’

      Big Tech Doubles Down on Election Meddling After Trump Raid

      Far-left Twitter has declared it will “protect” the midterm elections with a range of policies designed to suppress what the company considers “misinformation,” and deliver Twitter-curated news to users.

      2020 was the first American election in which Big Tech companies like Twitter, Facebook, and Google had “election integrity” policies — and they resulted in one of the most consequential stories of that cycle, the New York Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s corrupt business dealings, being suppressed just weeks before the election.

      Twitter was one of the companies that suppressed that story in the name of fighting “misinformation” — now it plans to activate similar policies ahead of the midterms.

      This tracks with what Breitbart News has predicted, which is that Big Tech companies will do everything they can to prevent the widely-predicted Republican sweep in November from taking place.

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        Investigative Journalist Paul Sperry Says Twitter Ban Came After Viral FBI Tweet

        Investigative journalist Paul Sperry told Breitbart News on Thursday that he was permanently suspended from Twitter without any explanation shortly after he tweeted about the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago.

        “No warning, no explanation, reason given, just this notice: ‘Your account is permanently suspended’ as I was trying to post a tweet,” he told Breitbart News in an email.

        He said the suspension happened not long after a tweet of his on August 9 at 12:13 p.m. EST went viral that said:

        DEVELOPING: Investigators reportedly met back in June w Trump & his lawyers in Mar-a-Lago storage rm to survey docs & things seemed copasetic but then FBI raids weeks later. Speculation on Hill RBI had PERSONAL stake & searching for classified docs related to its #Spygate scandal.

        Sperry said, “In other words, the FBI may be covering its own tracks while using the [Presidential Records Act] as a pretext for the Mar-a-Lago search,” he wrote.

        “It’s worth noting that the current deputy general counsel at Twitter is also the former general counsel at FBI HQ under Comey. His name as you may know is James Baker, and he was the top attorney who reviewed the fraudulent anti-Trump FISA wiretap warrants for probable cause,” he added.

        “I doubt he is involved in monitoring content at Twitter, but I am told some sensitive content is brought to his attention. I am also told Twitter is now monitoring offsite influence of tweets and has ability to track the sharing and receiving of tweets down to the individual,” he said.

        Sperry, who is currently senior staff writer for RealClearInvestigations and a New York Post columnist, has covered the Russia collusion hoax and the FBI’s role extensively.

        He said he had also tweeted shortly before his ban about Hillary Clinton:

        Funny, don’t remember the FBI raiding Chappaqua or Whitehaven to find the 33,000 potential classified documents Hillary Clinton deleted. And she was just a former secretary of state, not a former president.

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    Simon

    The NY Times and Washington Post are reporting that the missing documents have the very highest secrecy classification level and that they pertain to nuclear weapon capability. We also now know that Trump was subpoenaed months ago and refused to comply. The FBI had no choice but to act to recover these documents. What Trump’s motivation is very unclear but a foreign power would pay a lot of money for them.

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      OldOzzie

      FBI leaking through their Corrupt Media OutletsThe NY Times and Washington Post are reporting that the missing documents have the very highest secrecy classification level and that they pertain to nuclear weapon capability.

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        Zatara says:
        August 12, 2022 at 12:45 pm

        I see it has come out that the Trump raid was about classified nuclear documents.

        Says a so-called “leak” to the Washington Post. Gee, we’ve never seen the FBI ‘leak’ false info to attack Trump to the Washington Post before have we?

        So anyway, the claim is that they were so concerned about these ‘classified nuclear documents’ they let them sit in Trump’s house for 18 months before they could be bothered to come for them? Then they suddenly decided it was so urgent they had to get a warrant and conduct a raid to get them?

        Did they just forget to mention those critically urgent documents when they were there on June 3rd to collect a tranche of documents that had been cooperatively released to them? I mean all that took was a request and some negotiations and Bob’s your Uncle, they got documents.

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          Ronin

          “So anyway, the claim is that they were so concerned about these ‘classified nuclear documents’ they let them sit in Trump’s house for 18 months before they could be bothered to come for them? Then they suddenly decided it was so urgent they had to get a warrant and conduct a raid to get them?”

          Yep, well it is getting close to the mid terms. LOL

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          OldOzzie

          The Payback for Mar-a-Lago Will Be Brutal

          What went around Monday will come around hard for the Democrats when Republicans control the Justice Department and FBI.

          Kimberley A. Strassel Aug. 11, 2022

          Trump derangement syndrome has a curious way of scrambling coherent thought. Witness the Democratic-media complex’s blind insistence the Justice Department raid on Donald Trump’s home is just and necessary—rather than a dangerous move for their party and the republic.

          In descending on Mar-a-Lago, the department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation shifted the U.S. into the category of countries whose ruling parties use government power to investigate political rivals. No attorney general has ever signed off on a raid on a former president’s home, in what could be the groundwork for criminal charges.

          Yet to read the left’s media scribes, Monday’s search was a ho-hum day in crime-fighting. The Beltway press circled the wagons around Attorney General Merrick Garland and primly parroted Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s piety that “no one is above the law.” “The Mar-a-Lago Raid Proves the U.S. Isn’t a Banana Republic,” pronounced the Atlantic, clearly worried readers might conclude the opposite. It is “bedrock principle” that those who “commit crimes” “must answer for them,” it lectured.

          The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake attests it’s totally standard to investigate presidents—look at Israel! The New York Times soothingly explains that prosecutors “would have carefully weighed the decision,” and that the investigation therefore must be “serious.” Roll Call produced a law professor to remind all that a judge had to sign off on a “detailed affidavit that established probable cause.” The last time we got this level of reassurance about federal law enforcement’s professionalism was at the height of the Russia-collusion hoax.

          If you have doubts about all this, you’re unhinged and lawless. The Washington Post quoted “extremism trackers,” who explained that any GOP statements “delegitimizing the government” were “nudges toward violence.” Said one: “They use events like this to feed into this fantasy they’ve co-created with their supporters.” Several outlets claimed Republicans’ criticism of Justice and the FBI was little more than an effort to “inoculate” themselves against any probes.

          Yet not even the Justice Department is so simple-minded. It has longstanding guidelines on politically “sensitive” investigations, particularly close to an election. The guidelines reflect a recognition that it’s impossible to strip politics out of political probes, and that a claimed crime must be severe to outweigh the risk of irreparably landing the department with a reputation as a politicized or corrupt agency. The probe also has to be worth the risk of setting off a toxic cycle of reprisal and escalation.

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            OldOzzie

            Watch for Falling Anvils, The Washington Post Claims FBI Raid Was Looking for Super-Secret Nuclear Intel in Mar-a-Lago

            August 11, 2022 – Sundance

            They should have gone with the aliens angle. I said earlier today after watching the frozen-faced, nervous teleprompter reading from AG Merrick Garland, that Main Justice and the FBI had completely embarrassed themselves and likely came up empty in their raid on Mar-a-Lago.

            The reason is simple, when you put a tribe of rabid leftists together in a room long enough, they will collectively concoct the goofiest plans in an effort to advance their quests. The DOJ and FBI lawfare tribe are no different. The Washington Post is now claiming the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago was connected to some “nuclear information” in Donald Trump’s possession.

            As the theory is presented, Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un were speaking in coded language about rockets and missiles. President Trump called Chairman Kim “little rocket man”, and said the USA had bigger missiles.

            Contemplate that type of insufferably innocuous nonsense long enough and in desperation it evolves into a plan to claim a national security threat might exist. Quick, grab Boris and Natasha and raid the estate…. but watch for dropping Acme anvils.

            Yeah, yeah, that’s the ticket. Comrade Donald and Comrade Melania were building an atomic missile in the Mar-a-Lago basement in order to advance their insurrection efforts.

            Good grief. Can these Deep State stenographers even hear themselves as they type?

            ‘Quick Melania, before we go to New Jersey, put the nuclear missile plans in your sock drawer.’

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        Ronin

        “The NY Times and Washington Post are reporting that the missing documents have the very highest secrecy classification level and that they pertain to nuclear weapon capability.”
        No worries, the CCCCCP and Vlad already have all the copies they need, what’s the prob.

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        What a load of BS from the Misinformed Stasi Media (MSM).

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      b.nice

      “The NY Times and Washington Post are reporting….. “

      LOL !!

      Always willing to believe the FAKERY from the far-left Democrat run MSM…

      “We also now know that Trump was subpoenaed months ago and refused to comply.”

      We don’t know at all…. more non-evidence.

      We DO KNOW that the National Archive has vetted all the materials Trump had.

      Trump has been an open book.. not a Closed Laptop.

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      yarpos

      Didn’t hear much from Simon when his beloved WaPo and NYT has to fess up over Russiagate and Hunters Laptop is misinformation. Now we get breathless updates on the latest agitprop.

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      OldOzzie

      Startling New Report Indicates FBI Was Looking for Extremely Sensitive Documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

      If this is true, then we have a major, major problem. Actually, we have multiple problems.

      The first problem: How or why did it take government agencies 18 months after Trump left office to determine that they were gone/possibly in his possession?

      The second problem: If they are in Trump’s possession and not in the capable(?) hands of the intelligence community, then Trump has really screwed up here.

      The third problem: And, on that note, if this is as serious as the Justice Department’s sources are making out to be, then holy mother of G@d why are you leaking it to the press, you absolute m@rons? This is something that could quite literally get someone killed, alter the balance of global powers, and generally make certain people’s lives a nightmarish hellscape… and you’re just tossing it out to reporters like this is good to chum the waters with.

      I had already thought that everyone involved in this story was grossly incompetent, and somehow they have decided they are dead set on proving it.

      With all of that said, I remain skeptical for a few reasons:

      Like I said, you don’t just leak that sensitive national security documents like those pertaining to nuclear secrets are just floating around out there.

      It was pretty commonly accepted that the Presidential Records Act was just a front, and everyone was hoping something from January 6, 2021, was going to be part of what the feds discovered.

      If you think Trump has this information, you tell those in Congress – including the Republicans – on the committees with high security clearances what the issue is, because you can guarantee that those Republicans will call the de facto head of their party and say “Please for the love of God get those back to D.C. in a hurry.”

      And, to be quite honest, the media and the FBI have both done stellar jobs debasing themselves throughout the last six years. Both institutions are distrusted by the American public, and for good reason. The FBI pursued a largely fake dossier, with agents that had admitted biases and agendas against Trump. The media has spent the last six years breathlessly telling us the “walls are closing in” after each and every news tidbit came out — and many of those were just as fake as the dossier.

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        And how many ‘associates’ of the Clintons have committed suicide? More than the number of fingers on my two hands and toes on my two feet. Trump is a Saint compared to the Clintons and the Bidens for that matter.

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          Kalm Keith

          Shhhhh!

          The media says that there is No such thing as Arkancide; those passings were all associated with VaXXinations for CV-2 and CV-1.

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      OldOzzie

      You’ve Got to Be Kidding: These Are the Items That Led to the FBI Raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

      Back to the FBI raid on Trump, do these formerly outstanding items rise to the level of a search warrant? One of the critical documents, if you could call it that, which was sent back to the National Archives was a cocktail napkin. Former President Bill Clinton accidentally left the authorization card for our nuclear arsenal in his suit pocket that was taken for dry cleaning during his presidency. Most rational people would find the latter a more egregious error (via WaPo):

      One of the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss its details, said agents were conducting a court-authorized search as part of a long-running investigation of whether documents — some of them top-secret — were taken to the former president’s private golf club and residence instead of sent to the National Archives when Trump left office. That could be a violation of the Presidential Records Act, which requires the preservation of memos, letters, notes, emails, faxes and other written communications related to a president’s official duties.

      Some of the materials Trump took included letters and notes from foreign leaders, such as North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.

      The inventory of unclassified items in the boxes that were recovered earlier this year from Mar-a-Lago is roughly 100 pages long, according to a person familiar with that document. Descriptions of items that were improperly taken to Mar-a-Lago include a cocktail napkin, a phone list, charts, slide decks, letters, memos, maps, talking points, a birthday dinner menu, schedules and more, this person said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss details of the ongoing investigation.

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        RickWill

        My god; how dare he take a birthday dinner menu. What a corrupt, arrogant individual who thinks he is above the law. The dinner menu has to be returned immediately.

        I cannot wait to see the ABC take hold of this and castigate Trump for such arrogance.

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      Bozotheclown

      Simon says:

      ….. We also now know that Trump was subpoenaed months ago and refused to comply. ……

      This is patently false and a typical example of Simon slime. Look up Christina Bobb attorney for Trump and you may learn the truth (although I think you knew the truth but chose to spread this false smear anyway).

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        Simon

        FBI Director Chris Wray stated this at the press conference.

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          b.nice

          Wrong again…. Trump was complying with the subpoena..

          The source questioned whether the federal magistrate judge who signed off on the warrant for the FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago on Monday was aware of Trump’s “past compliance with the subpoena,” adding that, if the FBI was looking for additional documents, another subpoena could have been issued, as Trump and his team were “cooperative” and turned over documents and records responsive to the subpoena issued in the spring.

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      Kalm Keith

      “Trump has been an open book.. not a Closed Laptop.”

      This is a very “nice” take on the situation.

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    Ronin

    Own goal doesn’t cover it, more like a sh*- g$un to both feet.

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    The USA IRS Job Advertisement for IRS Tax Enforcers –

    Not one line item detailing any tax knowledge required whatsoever………….lol

    https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d02a2eed0b768200d-pi

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    Ross+P

    So the highly confidemtials docs they were looking were not there in June when they did another search with co-operation from Trump and his team. They must think we all as stupid as they are !!!

    In the meantime we learn via an interview on Laura Ingraham’s show that Trump’s NY based team viewed the raid in real time via his security system. The FBI and Garland are muppets !!.

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    From Armstrong Economics –

    The enhanced police state is turning tax accountants into the Gestapo. The IRS was forced to remove its job description after creating a buzz across the internet.

    “As a Special Agent you will combine your accounting skills with law enforcement skills to investigate financial crimes,” the job advertisement stated. “No matter what the source, all income earned, both legal and illegal, has the potential of becoming involved in crimes which fall within the investigative jurisdiction of the IRS Criminal Investigation. Because of the expertise required to conduct these complex financial investigations, IRS Special Agents are considered the premier financial investigators for the Federal government.”
    “Financial investigators for the Federal government” aka their muscle to collect as much money in taxes as they can. The description states that it does not matter whether the income was earned legally because it could still be used in crimes. Everyone is to be treated as a criminal until proven innocent now.

    https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/taxes/irs-seeking-agents-willing-to-use-deadly-force/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

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    exsteelworker

    So It has taken the Democrats and FBI 2 years to find out that Trump might have had nuclear launch codes? 2 days for the FBI to tell the msm that was the reason. How easy would it be for the FBI plant a page in one of those boxes? Dose the pentagon hand out the nuclear launch codes so easily? Aren’t they supposed to be locked up with the football? I smell a panicked Democrat trying to save their arse.

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      TdeF

      Surely it would take one man to go there and ask for them back?
      So they waited for him to leave and thirty armed agents ransacked the place?

      Now I have had a credit card cancelled while travelling.
      Surely they could have changed the nuclear launch codes in two years?
      And what is their current target? Mar El Lago?

      The explanations are predictable, Trump retained Presidential level access to the Doomsday device?

      And kept it at one of his homes, somewhere.

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    John Connor II

    Anyone watch SBS’s Secrets of USA’s shadow government series yet? 😏

    https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/program/secrets-of-americas-shadow-government

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    CHRIS

    This is a perfect example of the BLEEDIN OBVIOUS. What do you think would happen after the Capitol Hill riots? Of course Trump would be targeted by the woke. The important thing is to see what happens in the Mid-Term elections IE: What do the American people think of all this?

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    Zane

    Jeffrey Epstein’s ghost would like to make a deposition. 😃

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    The Red Elephants – Vincent James
    https://www.bitchute.com/channel/the-red-elephants/

    thousands of new irs agents to be hired and instructed to use ‘deadly force’ against americans
    https://www.bitchute.com/video/ciwYYKpjXa6X/
    Great videos

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    Philthegeek

    Interesting time to peruse the reactions of the more right of center blogs around wot??

    The Trump being raided thing has certainly triggered a few people. And that goes across the political spectrum. 🙂 Lots of speculation as to what the documents seized are. People are talking nukes, but from what i am reading that pure blue sky what if stuff.

    Whats verified though by the warrant release is that some docs seized are classified top secret and one of the reasons the warrant was issued is related to something called the “espionage act”. Fairly serious i think we can all agree.

    So, now i’m going to speculate. Have seen it reported that the FBI is fingerprinting to establish who has actually handled these documents. Possible that the FBI have seen or references to them them elsewhere, and are tracking down where they leaked from. If it ties back to Trump or anyone in his entourage………he fwarked.

    And frankly, the whole theme thing about “Hillary’s emails” does NOT excuse anything Trump may have done. That’s just a silly false equivalence and justifying a downward spiral.

    Hmmmmm….yah know…..probably more worrying is the drought in Europe. Cooling water for power stations from usually reliable rivers getting dicey apparently. 🙁

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      RossP

      Phil

      The FBI were there in June and did a full search with total co-operation from Trump and his team. They even asked him to put another lock on the document room door which they happily agreed to.

      If the documents are so highly classified and Trump should not have had them, then why did they not take them away in June ??

      I wonder if the FBI are totally sure there are not any classified documents in the 30 million pages of document Obama had trucked to Chicago where he left the WH. They would not have a clue and would not care.

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        Phithegeek

        If the documents are so highly classified and Trump should not have had them, then why did they not take them away in June ??

        Dont know. From what i have read the people wanting stuff back in Feb?? were from the archives and Trumps people let them have some stuff, but for whatever reason (probably legal and US style convoluted) the stuff seized recently wasn’t handed over. sound to me like trumps people were putting some limits on their cooperation for some reason.

        I wonder if the FBI are totally sure there are not any classified documents in the 30 million pages of document Obama had trucked to Chicago where he left the WH.

        An easy one for the high profile Republicans in the US who are expressing concerns about that to actually check, and have checked out by the appropriate institutions. And…if former President Obama is found to have actually done something wrong, he should be answerable for it….just as former President Trump should be.

        Have to say though…was disappointing to see Trump in court recently pleading 5th amendment. Possibly a man with stuff to hide feeling like walls are closing in on him.

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    Ronin

    Bloke who used to carry the ‘nuclear football’ around when Clinton was the clown in chief; says that the codes mean nothing after the 2 years since Trump was in the WH, they get changed as you could imagine, so it’s a cover for a witch hunt likely for something that might be incriminating for the current regime.

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    another ian

    More in this arena

    “The Managing of DeSantis, Five Days in the Bunker and a New Press Secretary
    August 12, 2022 | Sundance | 509 Comments

    Bunker boy Ron DeSantis has completed five days of silence and is scheduled to re-emerge tomorrow in Arizona as part of the TPUSA national tour. Those of you who have walked the deep weeds of national politics, know exactly what is happening. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has entered the managing phase of the GOPe candidate process.”

    More at

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/08/12/the-managing-of-desantis-five-days-in-the-bunker-and-a-new-press-secretary/

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      Phithegeek

      Interesting link….thanks.

      If any of that analysis is true i wonder about the vibe in the Trump Bunker at the moment.

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    Lucky

    The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States

    The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

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    another ian

    “Neil Oliver, Think the Unthinkable and Accept That is the Better Reference Point
    August 13, 2022 | Sundance | 68 Comments”

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/08/13/neil-oliver-think-the-unthinkable-and-accept-that-is-the-better-reference-point/

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    another ian

    “Big Picture, Review all DC Activity from June 3rd with New Eyes
    August 13, 2022 | Sundance | 630 Comments”

    “With this timeline in mind, and knowing how the DC administrative deep state operates, all current evaluations must consider these dates carefully. Many people have puzzled over why the DOJ and FBI waited. Good question. However, the better question is…

    …What was DC doing between June 3 and August 8?”

    More at

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/08/13/big-picture-review-all-dc-activity-from-june-3rd-with-new-eyes/

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    another ian

    IMO this applies here and to a lot of other things going on ATM

    Rex Murphy

    “To which I offer an axiom: Great ambitions are the most powerful seduction: the idea you are saving the planet allows full excuse to what you think you can do, but over which you have no command whatsoever.”

    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/rex-murphy-that-sound-you-hear-could-be-the-country-fragmenting/ar-AA10CGgm?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=f575b3912dc247a689757beb70fc4d6e

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    another ian

    The Air Vent is posting again

    “this was the news in 2019, known to contain truckloads of information including classified presidential records from the Obama administration. Now the feds want you to believe it was declassified.”

    More at

    https://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2022/08/13/moving-the-thimble/

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