Donnie Dumptruck says Mar-A-Lago's been searched by the FBI

[Anonymous]

The current FBI Director was appointed by Trump, served with Kavanaugh in the Bush administration, and was/is a member of the Federalist Society.

It’s absolutely laughable for Republicans to try paint him as some deep-state liberal and shows just how desperate they are.

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Anonymous wrote:Putting this together with the fact that the DOJ Chief of Counterintelligence and Export Control visited Mar-A-Lago in June leads one to believe that they're looking at more than violations of the Presidential Records Act.

That’s a great thread.

And put my money on: Trump has been selling the highest state secrets to our enemies.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope the Democrats know what they are doing here. For every action there is a reaction. To go after Trump like the way they are doing. It’s going to bite the current admin come next year. Just saying. 🌈

"democrats" aren't doing this. Law Enforcement, however, is.

Law is blind to anything but facts uncovering crimes.

If Democrats are committing major felonies, we WANT the FBI to investigate. That's the difference between Republicans and Democrats. Republicans act like enforcing the law on their politicians is some sort of unacceptable political retribution, then turn around and immediately threaten to enact unacceptable political retribution on Democrats.

As a staunch liberal, if Democratic politicians are breaking the law, I want them brought to justice! I want EVERY politician breaking the law to be investigated and locked up if found guilty.

But here's the thing, for all their bluster about "Democrats do it too!" When Trump was in office and had every opportunity to investigate and prosecute so called "criminals" like Hillary Clinton, they didn't do a thing, because even the Trump-appointed FBI Director knew in reality for all the Republicans' big talk there was absolutely nothing to prosecute.

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Anonymous wrote:Fact:

What does this have to do with anything?

Does the law suddenly not apply to Donnie just because, at some later date, he might announce he is running for president?

I don't recall Republicans complaining that HRC was under investigation when she was running for president or that Bill Clinton was under investigation when he was in the White House.

Her home was never searched and it should have been because she had a “private server” at her home holding public records. But they didn’t. This is absolutely politically motivated. Garland has weaponized the justice department to a degree not seen since Hoover. Well done.

Because she turned over an image of the entire server. It's been over 18 months and he was still intentionally not complying. That's a huge distinction.

Another distinction is that the classified documents she was deemed to have had were retroactively classified as secret and could be counted on one hand. He had hundreds of documents that were code word classified at the time he took them. That's three more huge distinctions.

You’re going to need to explain that for the “issawitchunt!!” folks.

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Anonymous wrote:Putting this together with the fact that the DOJ Chief of Counterintelligence and Export Control visited Mar-A-Lago in June leads one to believe that they're looking at more than violations of the Presidential Records Act.

That’s a great thread.

And put my money on: Trump has been selling the highest state secrets to our enemies.

The only thing that would surprise me about that is if he was paying enough attention to briefings or docs to even know what the state secrets are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope the Democrats know what they are doing here. For every action there is a reaction. To go after Trump like the way they are doing. It’s going to bite the current admin come next year. Just saying. 🌈

"democrats" aren't doing this. Law Enforcement, however, is.

Law is blind to anything but facts uncovering crimes.

If Democrats are committing major felonies, we WANT the FBI to investigate. That's the difference between Republicans and Democrats. Republicans act like enforcing the law on their politicians is some sort of unacceptable political retribution, then turn around and immediately threaten to enact unacceptable political retribution on Democrats.

As a staunch liberal, if Democratic politicians are breaking the law, I want them brought to justice! I want EVERY politician breaking the law to be investigated and locked up if found guilty.

But here's the thing, for all their bluster about "Democrats do it too!" When Trump was in office and had every opportunity to investigate and prosecute so called "criminals" like Hillary Clinton, they didn't do a thing, because even the Trump-appointed FBI Director knew in reality for all the Republicans' big talk there was absolutely nothing to prosecute.

Lock her up!
Lock her up!

I agree with your entire premise. If a Democrat has actually broken the law, investigate. Prosecute. The Democrats want rule of law and the GOP wants law and order, i.e., the fascist rules for thee, not for me.

What the GOP numpties on this thread are screaming unawares is their confession. If this were happening to a Democratic ex president, it would be just a political act. They literally cannot conceive of people following the law.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Putting this together with the fact that the DOJ Chief of Counterintelligence and Export Control visited Mar-A-Lago in June leads one to believe that they're looking at more than violations of the Presidential Records Act.

That’s a great thread.

And put my money on: Trump has been selling the highest state secrets to our enemies.

The only thing that would surprise me about that is if he was paying enough attention to briefings or docs to even know what the state secrets are.

His brain is turning to mush, but I think he still has his good days and moments of clarity, and he’ll do anything get more money. “Donald, we are looking for information about x… if you can find some information about what your intelligence community is doing about x, we can make it very worth your time.”

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Anonymous wrote:Remarkable that there were no leaks about this.

And Trump was the one who got the word out. So, he must be running scared and is trying to whip up everyone to come to his defense. (And even his most ardent supporters must be getting tired of defending him.).

It seems unlikely that this is “just” that he packed up classified docs when he left the White House because then surely he would have just handed them back. Why save classified docs??

Actually I also found it funny that Trump is the first person who reported that MAL was being raided by FBI. He obviously want everyone in GOP defending him and using that as the measure of their republican-ness for election. In fact yesterday I saw a tweet from one of the RWNJ that it had been several hours and Dr. Oz has not tweeted defending Donald against the FBI raid. SMH!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Remarkable that there were no leaks about this.

And Trump was the one who got the word out. So, he must be running scared and is trying to whip up everyone to come to his defense. (And even his most ardent supporters must be getting tired of defending him.).

It seems unlikely that this is “just” that he packed up classified docs when he left the White House because then surely he would have just handed them back. Why save classified docs??

Actually I also found it funny that Trump is the first person who reported that MAL was being raided by FBI. He obviously want everyone in GOP defending him and using that as the measure of their republican-ness for election. In fact yesterday I saw a tweet from one of the RWNJ that it had been several hours and Dr. Oz has not tweeted defending Donald against the FBI raid. SMH!

Trump got out early to frame it as such. Media repeats his Trump as the victim, yadda yadda.

We need to STOP calling it a "raid." The FBI (run by Trump-appointed Wray) executed a court-authorized search warrant (by Trump-appointed judge) pertaining to Trump’s suspected theft of classified information.

Words matter. Please, call it an FBI court-authorized search.

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Anonymous wrote:WaPo says the Feds are probing the “potential mishandling of classified documents that were shipped to Mara Lago”.
WTH does that mean?

I would imagine he took stuff home that he wasn’t allowed to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Remarkable that there were no leaks about this.

And Trump was the one who got the word out. So, he must be running scared and is trying to whip up everyone to come to his defense. (And even his most ardent supporters must be getting tired of defending him.).

It seems unlikely that this is “just” that he packed up classified docs when he left the White House because then surely he would have just handed them back. Why save classified docs??

Actually I also found it funny that Trump is the first person who reported that MAL was being raided by FBI. He obviously want everyone in GOP defending him and using that as the measure of their republican-ness for election. In fact yesterday I saw a tweet from one of the RWNJ that it had been several hours and Dr. Oz has not tweeted defending Donald against the FBI raid. SMH!

This guy broke the story before Trump said anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope the Democrats know what they are doing here. For every action there is a reaction. To go after Trump like the way they are doing. It’s going to bite the current admin come next year. Just saying. 🌈

"democrats" aren't doing this. Law Enforcement, however, is.

Law is blind to anything but facts uncovering crimes.

OMG, what rock have you been living under?

Signed,

Lawyer for 35+ years who is a lifelong registered Democrat.

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Anonymous wrote:

that FBI agents went to Mar-a-Lago and looked in every single office, safe, and grabbed documents and boxes without going through them on the property. They took boxes and documents to go through them later.

No matter your politics, no one has an issue with this? The police taking stuff just to see if anything is there? Wow.

to do that you need a warrant. To get a warrant you have to show reasonable cause.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a scary development, and I wish more people knew history. We will set a precedent in this country of prosecuting political rivals, and the republicans will do the same thing the next time a republican president is elected. And presidents will know that they can NEVER surrender power, since they’d be prosecuted after leaving office. So that will force them to seize dictatorial powers. This is exactly what happened with Julius Caesar and is how the Roman republic ended. Prosecuting political rivals will put us on the path to a civil war, which will end with one party authoritarian rule.

or maybe they will obey the law and respect the office.

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Anonymous wrote:Why did Trump continue to refuse to return all the documents? What is he hiding?

This. I know he thinks rules don’t apply to him but I can’t game out in my head why he wouldn’t return the docs.