Posted on 08/09/2022 7:24:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
The White House claims it only learned of the FBI’s stunning raid on former President Trump’s home in Florida on Twitter, at the same time the media did, according to multiple reports.
As improbable as it may seem that the Department of Justice would execute a search warrant on a former president and political opponent of the administration without Biden’s knowledge, that’s what New York Times reporter Jonathan Martin tweeted Monday night. Trump was not home during the raid at the mansion known as Mar-a-Lago.
“Senior White House officials found out about the FBI’s Mar a Lago raid on Twitter, had no notice, per source familiar,” Martin tweeted.
CBS News reporter Ed O’Keefe said a top Biden official told him the same thing.
“No advance knowledge. Some learned from old media some from social media,” O’Keefe quoted a senior administration official when asked about the raid.
The dramatic raid was initially announced by Trump himself, in a lengthy statement decrying what he characterized as a political move.
“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,” Trump wrote. “Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before.”
Other conservatives, including many not aligned with the 45th president, said the raid sets a dangerous precedent.
The search was reportedly for material that Trump brought with him to Mar-a-Lago after he left the White House in 2021, according to reports. Trump allegedly delayed returning more than a dozen boxes of material to the National Archives which included documents that were reportedly marked as classified.
Republican strategist Scott Jennings, on a CNN panel hours after the raid, said the political implications of Biden’s Justice Department raiding his predecessor cannot be ignored.
“I mean, they’ve raided the guy’s house,” said Jennings. “There’s no reconciliation here when you raid somebody’s house. And so because of the political implications of that, I’m curious to know about what did the White House know?”
David Axelrod, former top adviser to President Obama, said Attorney General Merrick Garland has gone beyond the point of no return, at least politically.
“He has crossed a rubicon here — if you are going to prosecute a former President of the United States, you’d better be pretty darn sure that you have an open-and-shut case,” Axelrod said.
If you didn’t know about it (hah) - condemn it. In fact all living ex presidents should speak up NOW.
If you don’t, you have contempt for the American people and the Constitution. It’s unarguable.
The FJB Administration are unabashed liars, all.
Breitbart barely a peep on this
Citizen Free Press
Bongino
Revolver
What finger
All over it
Marlow and Pollack at BB not our pals
Know thy enemies
One day this keeps up figures on the left may be attacked by folks on our side
Politicians and NGOs and media heads
Most here will lament that loudly
Don’t doubt me that’s where this is headed
Outliers who have had enough
i guess Mary Garland has some splainin to do then... yes?
Can’t wait until this afternoon’s WH briefing with the idiot lesbo.......................
Ha, sounds like the pro forma Obama excuse! He didn’t know about it until he read about it in the paper.
You know what to do Wyoming. Take her out!
Not a chance, a raid such as this has to be cleared by the President, before it proceeds. No question!
No kidding. These people lie with each inhalation and exhalation. Non-stop.
The depressing and frightening thing is that there are many wide-eyed Americans who would unhesitatingly swallow this blatant lie as if it were the God’s Honest Truth.
And not all of those wide-eyed idiots are Leftists.
The White House is in Kalorama.
The White House is in Kalorama.
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is a tourist destination.
Obviously Old Joe was still asleep and probably forgot Jill telling him something when he got his pudding cup. However, the cabal running the presidency engineered the whole thing.
Culpable deniability.
I’ve been saying that forever.
Obama is having the time of his life. All the destruction, pedo Joe gets the blame, and he’s just a nice guy in a tan suit. Well done. Mission absolutely accomplished.
OH Yeah...
or make the guy do it
Oh, I agree.
I suspect that you still believe in a ten-foot tall "Biden" who is in charge of everything, causes everything to happen, and is guiding the Executive Branch in the direction it seems to be moving.
I don't.
Biden doesn't "clear" anything except what goes on his oatmeal in the morning.
Joe Biden is blindsided by everything; he was blindsided yesterday putting on his coat.
https://www.toddstarnes.com/uncategorized/humiliating-biden-has-trouble-putting-on-his-suit-coat/
Can’t, that’s his nap time..........................
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is a tourist destination.
Yes, I know. I lived in the DC area for several years growing up and still have family and friends there whom I visit on occasion.
What does that have to do with my comment about Obama and ValJar *not* being blindsided by this? 🤔
Wow. The National Archives went rogue?
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