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Tech journalist. Author of 25+ books. PC/Microsoft expert. it's Bott, not bot. He/him. RTs are not, you know.
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Oooh, yeah, let me tell you, when you're getting searched under a warrant likely approved by the Attorney General himself, that's totally who you want representing you -- a former OAN host Good luck Donnie
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Trump attorney Christina Bobb confirms FBI seized documents from Mar-a-Lago today in a statement to CNN. Bobb, a former OAN host, was present for the search at Trump’s Palm Beach residence.
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this is sui generis in all ways, but as a general matter, the distinct majority of people who have a warrant like this served on them are eventually charged w/ a federal crime. really serious step.
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Worth noting that Comey said that DOJ also prosecutes mishandling of classified material if there have been efforts to obstruct justice. It’s possible that DOJ has detected such efforts here. fbi.gov/news/press-rel
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8/ James Comey was right when he testified that the DOJ typically does *not* prosecute cases involving the mishandling of classified material unless that material was deliberately transferred to a third party. That suggests to me that there is something we don't know here.
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Stop calling it a “raid.” It’s the execution of a search warrant, which requires judicial approval, including sufficient evidence. Trump’s unhinged response is precisely how he responded to the NYAG’s lawsuits against his foundation & university - before we shut both down. 🤷‍♀️
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Bingo.
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He might've have been able to put up enough fight to run again in 2024. But, with the potential of a single charge of mishandling those documents, Garland will cut him off at the pass. This leaves room (and time) for follow-on indictments on a much larger scope of offenses.
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Irony just threw itself into a volcano.
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“How to properly handle classified documents was not something that was really pressed upon us.” — former Trump White House official @OMGrisham on CNN as we learn details about the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago
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well when you put it that way
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Anyway this will be fascinating to watch unless we collapse into violence and civil war and stuff
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It’s a “search,” not a “raid.” 👇🏽
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We don't know yet what crimes the FBI had sufficient evidence of to convince a federal judge there was probable cause to search Trump's residence, but the execution of a search warrant isn't a raid. It's a judicially overseen process. Still unknown: the subject of the search.
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Speaking as a Watergate historian: Ironically, the FBI agents at Mar-a-Lago today were surely working with more independence and less knowledge of the man in the Oval Office than the burglars at the Watergate were in 1972.
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nothing like this has ever happened to the presidency of the united states before so
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“Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before.” vice.com/en/article/wxn via @pblest @cam_joseph @VICENews
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You really hate to see it.
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The FBI executed a search warrant today at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, the former President confirms to CNN. cnn.com/2022/08/08/pol
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