FBI executed search warrant at Mar-a-Lago

[Cmaier]

Word spreading on twitter. CNN reporter says trump admitted it. Don’t have a link other than twitter.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1556775176783667202/

 

[GermanSuplex]

Ah, the news and politics forums are back up! Great… made me a little sad to see them go.

The FBI raised Moron-Lardo and the TA news forums are back… now that’s what I call a good Monday!

Now, how long until Trump announces his run to dodge accountability?

 

[Eric]

Would be nice to see some real tangible action taken against him, looking at the indictments and investigations they've been churning out it's getting ugly for a lot of them.

 

[Cmaier]

“These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents,” Mr. Trump said in the statement. “Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before,” Mr. Trump said.

LOL

 

[GermanSuplex]

“These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents,” Mr. Trump said in the statement. “Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before,” Mr. Trump said.

LOL

Yeah, it’s never happened before because we’ve never had a bigger corrupt piece of shit in office. We also never had a president refuse to concede or commit to a peaceful transfer of power. I’m so sick of this victimhood mentality of the biggest grifter, con and liar I’ve ever seen. How people fall for this crap is beyond me.

As mad as his cult will be, they’ll get over. Sure, there’s nut jobs out there, but the vast majority of them have jobs and families and aren’t going to risk it all just because Fatty Dumb Dumb goes to prison. Most will move on with their life and find a new loser hero, like Ron DeSantis, and the stupid ones who try to seek some sort of revenge will be arrested and start crying when they’re treated like any other criminal, just like the January 6 stooge army found out.

Just for fun, I flipped over to Faux News, and they had Dan Bongino whining about Hunter Biden.

I watched another minute on Fox, and the amount of misleading and lying to their audience is stunning. Literally less than a minute, and they say “Trump should be in court to defend himself, not raided”. Uh, this is how you GET to court. The lying, gaslighting and worshipping of Trump om Fox is insane. They called him the “most transparent president in history”. LOL!

They’re asking why the secret service didn’t “stop” the FBI too… Wow, they are really stepping up their rhetoric. It’s insane.

 

[Eric]

Nixon comes to mind, not sure about the specifics around FBI searches/warrants though.

 

[GermanSuplex]

Fox is selling this to their audience as if this isn’t routine, as if criminals or suspects aren’t raided all the time. There’s probable cause, judges sign off… it’s called a search warrant, and it’s nothing new. Yea, it’s unprecedented to have it happen to a former president, but that’s not what they’re selling. They’re selling this as if Trump is entitled to special treatment. No wonder why Fox viewers are so incredibly misinformed.

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

They better have found something, or else Trump is going to play this up to his base like a muthafuca.

 

[Eric]

They better have found something, or else Trump is going to play this up to his base like a muthafuca.

Hopefully they're putting all of the politics aside and just following procedure, letting the facts dictate their path forward. My guess is they'll play it all by the book and cover every base.

 

[GermanSuplex]

They better have found something, or else Trump is going to play this up to his base like a muthafuca.

If this was all swept under the rug, he’d keep harping about a “stolen election” and bragging how they found nothing on him. He’s always going to lie to his base no matter what, so I think holding him accountable is worth the short-term damage. Nobody will care in a few years. His supporters will move on to their next cult idol.

His supporters should be asking why all of Trump’s appointees turned on him at some point or another. Chris Wray isn’t some democrat hack, he was Trump’s appointed FBI director.

The Trump-Cult’s unwillingness to see any of this rationally and to constantly deflect blame to anyone and everyone but Trump is half the reason we’re here.

 

[Alli]

I expect they’ll find many boxes of classified documents. Who knows what else.

All I know is I’m giddy over this.

 

[mac_in_tosh]

I expect they’ll find many boxes of classified documents. Who knows what else.

If the documents haven't already been flushed down a toilet.

 

[GermanSuplex]

If the documents haven't already been flushed down a toilet.

Axios published pictures from an upcoming book purporting to show proof of Trump’s penchant for flushing documents….

Exclusive: See the Trump toilet photos that he denies ever existed

Destroying records that should be preserved is potentially illegal.

www.axios.com

I fully expect the argument from the right will be “he had absolute authority to declassify and take whatever he wanted”.

 

[mac_in_tosh]

The Trump-Cult’s unwillingness to see any of this rationally and to constantly deflect blame to anyone and everyone but Trump is half the reason we’re here.

That's what is most disturbing, that so many people are willing to overlook Trump's many flaws and transgressions and say they would vote for him again even after he incited a violent attack on the Capitol and enjoyed watching it on t.v. for over three hours. He's the darling of the religious right yet he never attends church, he cheated on all three of his wives and he paid hush money to a porn star. He's admired as a shrewd businessman yet he has a string of bankruptcies and what he has achieved was tainted by cheating. He's considered strong on the military yet he dodged the draft with a phoney doctor's letter. And of course he lies constantly. What exactly is the reason for the loyalty to such a horrible person?

 

[mac_in_tosh]

I fully expect the argument from the right will be “he had absolute authority to declassify and take whatever he wanted”.

Ironic after Trump made such a big deal about "crooked Hillary" and her emails.

 

[lizkat]

If the documents haven't already been flushed down a toilet.

It has apparently never bothered Trump to bend or break norms, rules, laws... that's what he figures his raft of lawyers has existed for, to clean up behind him as he does whatever the F he feels like doing or saying.

Totally disconnected from reality. Will be amazing if someone finally wires him into it.

 

[lizkat]

Hopefully they're putting all of the politics aside and just following procedure, letting the facts dictate their path forward. My guess is they'll play it all by the book and cover every base.

I hope to God. Otherwise this is a gift to The Don and his hijacked party for sure.

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

They broke into his safe.

 

[Cmaier]

They broke into his safe.

They had to, in order to get to the Pee Tapes.

 

[Cmaier]

Here’s the thing, ladies and gentlemen. FBI isn’t going to get a warrant to raid a former president because he took home some papers. And they aren’t going to convince a judge that they need to break into a safe to prove the crime of misplacing some documents.

It’s the CONTENT of those documents that’s going to end up being important - he took them to hide them for a reason.

At least that’s what I predict.