20 years ago, Harvey told me when a woman says the sex wasn’t consensual, “Sometimes you have to write a check.“ Turns out sometimes you have to go to prison.
Former President Trump released a statement saying FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, adding, they "even broke into my safe." Federal law enforcement sources confirm to ABC News that the FBI conducted the raid. @jonkarl reports. https://abcn.ws/3JHC2ow
When you're attacking FBI agents because you're under criminal investigation, you're losing https://twitter.com/politicalwire/status/794255050243801090…
Sandy Hook families’ lawyer confirms that a naked photo of Alex Jones’s wife was on his phone, but adds that Alex sent that naked photo of his wife to Roger Stone.
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THREAD. Because the FBI search concerned classified docs, this is a national security investigation. That can help explain why DOJ was willing to move on this, and to do so regardless of what may be going on with the 1/6 investigation
This is Kevin McCarthy, House Minority Leader in the United States House of Representatives, threatening the Attorney General of the United States of America on Twitter.
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.
4) Taken together, this is one of the most significant, sensitive, and politically explosive actions the US Justice Department and FBI has ever taken—one of a tiny handful of times it's ever investigated a president.
Bottom line: The FBI & DOJ must've known they had the goods.
Any evidence seized as part of the search process authorized by the warrant—or any other evidence in plain sight that is seized—can be used by prosecutors not only for classified information crimes, but any other crimes. Makes one wonder what other documents were at Mar-a-Lago.
“The search, according to two people familiar with the investigation, appeared to be focused on material that Mr. Trump had brought with him to Mar-a-Lago…Those boxes contained many pages of classified documents.” https://nytimes.com/2022/08/08/us/politics/trump-fbi-mar-a-lago.html…
NEW: The FBI notified the Secret Service that a warrant would be executed and Secret Service facilitated access to the Florida Trump property as fellow federal agents but did not take part in investigation or search.
As of now, there is no state, no county, and no metropolitan area in the US where someone earning the federal, state, or local minimum wage can, in a 40-hour work week, afford to rent a typical two bedroom home.
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Scoop — The Federal Bureau of Investigation @FBI today executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, two sources confirm to @Fla_Pol.
"They just left," one source said.
Not sure what the search warrant was about.
TBH, Im not a strong enough reporter to hunt this down, but its real.
“Hi there, new business daddy. Seems like you’re doing a really great job. I do get the vague sense that you’re burning down my network for the insurance money, but I’m sure that that will all pass.”
John Oliver Chides His Parent Company For Canceling ‘Batgirl’: “Burning Down My Network” https://hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/john-oliver-hbo-batgirl-cancellation-1235195024/…
The family-separation nightmare is what can happen when zealots who have no idea what they’re doing get control of the levers of a gigantic and powerful government. The latest Atlantic Daily: https://theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/08/the-secret-history-of-family-separation/671081/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share…
Scoop — The Federal Bureau of Investigation @FBI today executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, two sources confirm to @Fla_Pol.
"They just left," one source said.
Not sure what the search warrant was about.
TBH, Im not a strong enough reporter to hunt this down, but its real.
More encouraging news on accountability coming out of Georgia: The attorney who wrote memos arguing that the Trump campaign should create fake slates of electors after losing the 2020 election will testify before the Fulton County grand jury.
NEW: Axios is being sold to Cox Enterprises. Here are Cox's top two 2022 political donations:
National Republican Senatorial Committee: $120,600
National Republican Congressional Committee: $74,200
LA has its first vegan butcher shop & deli in Highland Park @evankleiman talks to co-owners Maciel Bañales Luna and Joe Egender
https://kcrw.co/3bBoheP
Law schools need to up their ethics classes. Too bad they can’t assess moral fitness.
“The tabulators were taken to hotel rooms and Airbnb rentals where a group of 4 men `broke into’ the tabulators and performed `tests’ on them.”
As kids head back to school this fall, the impact of the wreckage and damage caused by those determined to destroy the public school system, intended to drive people into home/religious schools, will be felt by parents everywhere. Democrats are not talking about this enough.
New: Radon, a byproduct of naturally decaying uranium, is estimated to cause thousands of deaths in the United States every year. Here’s how to find out how much radon may be in your home and what you can do.
NEW: Over the past week, @JuddLegum and I have tried to identify the individuals behind “United for Clean Power” - a purported “pro-climate” group saying Dem’s climate legislation isn’t good enough.
Here’s what we found:
https://popular.info/p/the-people-behind-the-bizarre-non…
Trump: “Look, I don’t want any wounded guys in the parade. This doesn’t look good for me.”
Kelly: “Those are the heroes. In our society, there’s only one group of people who are more heroic than they are—and they are buried over in Arlington.”
Trump: “I don’t want them.” twitter.com/jaketapper/sta…
Judges in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Ohio have found that Republicans illegally drew congressional maps along racial or partisan lines, or that a trial very likely would conclude that they did.
All four states are using the rejected maps anyway.
https://nyti.ms/3P7yehq