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.
WUT?! branDUHn clueless........... Oh! 😖
The Border is secure, too...................
Likely a bald face lie. If this is true, will Biden fire his AG and FBI director? If they stay on the job, Biden knew full well what was happening or at least his handlers knew.
Institutionally and Bureaucratically, The DOJ is America’s KGB
Its the political brain and nerve center of the central Government. Its an entity unto itself.
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday […] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. [...] The eyeless crature at the other table swallowed it fanatically. passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grams. Syme, too-in some more double complex way, involving doublethink-Syme, swallow it. Was he, then, alone in the possession of a memory?”
― Orwell George, 1984
I’m sure Liz Cheney is happy that she’s helping the real insurrection and death of our democracy.
She’s even attacking DeSantis lately.
The Cheney name will replace Mudd.
Yep. Biden really might not have known about it because potato, but we know darn good and well Obama and ValJar knew about it.
I believe it was a surprise to Biden, and his inner circle.
The people actually running the country are making their move. Their plans do not involve Mr. Biden.
Good morning, Your Majesty!...........................
Jojo is routinely blindsided by his own bowel movements.
Bald-faced LIES
It is inconceivable that this could happen without anyone in the White House knowing about it before hand. It just would not happen. Unless Biden’s henchmen are so out of control that they have free rein to do anything they want.
Every bad thing in the last eighteen months wouldn’t be happening with out the help of the democrat party they are the swamp.
Not a lie if you believe in the “greater good”.
Though for the life of me, I cannot imagine the “greater good” that was served here.
Wayne LaPierre’s famous “jack-booted government thugs” quote would appear to apply here. They were not sent without direction right from the top.
“When everything else had failed, we’re the ones, the swords and shields of the party, the ones who have to rescue the Republic.”
Yep. Biden really might not have known about it because potato
LOL....exactly.
EVERYTHING blindsides this delirious codger.
The Biden cabal runs the corrupt, demented Joe Biden. He only reads a teleprompter, signs what they put in front of him and really does nothing much else. It would seem the criminal FBI mess in DC knows what is coming to them in any future Republican administration and is taking preemptive shots in conjunction with the corrupt DOJ elements. No doubt they have a contact within the cabal and that contact if an order was given acted on his own.
I’m sure they’ll drag out that AA lesbian Press Secretary to deny the whole thing.....
It also took place on the anniversary of Nixon resigning the presidency over the Watergate break-in. How ironic!
8^)
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