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What's the over/under on how long it takes for Trump to send out a fundraising email?
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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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Nope.
Nope nope nope nope nope NOPE.
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Opinion by Jonathan Capehart: Liz Cheney is the Obi-Wan to Trump’s Darth Vader
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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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Folks on my TL - please stop calling it a "raid." This was a lawfully executed search warrant. Words to use matter here and are significant.
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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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I am told the safe that FBI agents accessed Monday while executing their search was the one in Trump's office at Mar-a-Lago.
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Who wants to tell her
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The debate on law enforcement in the United States has sure flipped in the past couple of hours
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Listen to the historian.
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There has never before in history been a need to pump an American President's stomach for torn-up documents.
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Look at this out of office email one of our founders just received.
These VCs have lost their minds
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(klaxon emoji)
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The media is missing the really, really big reason why the raid today is a potential blockbuster in American politics.
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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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Dear Trumpers,
Trump picked the FBI director that raided his home.
Ok bye.
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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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Prepare for a week of wealthy, white, safe-owning men suddenly asking whether there should be limits on police power.
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It helps that Trump used the most emotive and provocative language in his statement. "Siege" "attack" "radical".
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The posts on these pro-Trump forums tonight are as violent as I've seen them since before January 6th. Maybe even moreso.
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Cry more.
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45: The political persecution of President Donald J. Trump has been going on for years, with the now fully debunked Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2, and so much more, it just never ends. It is political targeting at the highest level!
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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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So exactly like Watergate
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It’s like Watergate, if the burglars had badges, a search warrant, and zero contact of any kind with the serving president of the day.
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FLUSH EVERYTHING!
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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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Thanks, FBI, for executing this warrant on a Monday.
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See you at 9pm ET, MSNBC…
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The raid "appeared to be focused on material that Mr. Trump had brought with him to Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence, after he left the White House. Those boxes contained many pages of classified documents."
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Let's do some democracy!
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Oh. Well, good.
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Trump says the raid was unannounced and adds, "They even broke into my safe."
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Dark Merrick
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The FBI executed a search warrant today at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, the former president confirms to CNN in a lengthy statement.
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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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