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Thomas Massie: A President Just Raided a Former President, His Political Opponent
https://www.breitbart.com ^ | O8 Aug 2022 | ALANA MASTRANGEL

Posted on 08/09/2022 5:29:39 AM PDT by Red Badger

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) reacted to the FBI’s shock raid of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, Mar-A-Lago, on Monday, proclaiming that “until Joe Biden denies it, a President just raided a former President – his political opponent.”

“Let that sink in,” Massie added. “There are only three branches of government. The FBI is works [sic] for the current President.”

“Is AG Garland bitter that Trump kept him from becoming a Supreme Court justice? Is that why, according to news reports, he raided Trump?” the congressman added in a follow-up tweet.

Trump also reacted to the FBI raid, writing, “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.”

“Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before,” the 45th president added.

Meanwhile, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has promised to launch a full-throated investigation into Attorney General Merrick Garland and the FBI’s raid on Trump’s home.

“I’ve seen enough,” McCarthy said. “The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization.”

“When Republicans take back the House, we will conduct immediate oversight of this department, follow the facts, and leave no stone unturned,” the House Republican Leader added, before calling on Garland to “preserve your documents and clear your calendar.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fbi; trump
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1 posted on 08/09/2022 5:29:39 AM PDT by Red Badger
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2 posted on 08/09/2022 5:31:00 AM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: Red Badger

Straight from Biden: “Will no one rid me of this troublesome political opponent?”


3 posted on 08/09/2022 5:31:40 AM PDT by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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"A raid is supposed to be a last resort, but this administration has used the weaponization of the justice system against its political enemies," Dershowitz told Monday's "Rob Schmitt Tonight." "It's arrested people, denied them bail, put them in handcuffs – used all kinds of techniques that are not usually applied to American citizens, and I just hope this raid has a justification.

"If it doesn't have a justification, the material seized in it will be suppressed."

Alan Dershowitz

4 posted on 08/09/2022 5:32:42 AM PDT by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees)
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To: Red Badger
--- "A President Just Raided a Former President, His Political Opponent"

An accurate description.

5 posted on 08/09/2022 5:35:35 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow Government)
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To: Red Badger

Where is McConnell?


6 posted on 08/09/2022 5:36:50 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: Red Badger
Meanwhile, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has promised to launch a full-throated investigation into Attorney General Merrick Garland and the FBI’s raid on Trump’s home.

Yep, he'll squawk a lot and deliver a sternly worded letter.

7 posted on 08/09/2022 5:38:12 AM PDT by HandBasketHell
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FBI goons.

The FBI is a disgrace to the entire country.


8 posted on 08/09/2022 5:38:37 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: Jane Long

When this stuff started, I considered us a Banana Republic.

When they override State Legislature election laws to run an election, I knew we were no longer a Republic.

When the SCOTUS refused an original jurisdiction case between states on violation of existing election laws, which were supported by Federal Government and Big Corporate money, I knew which direction the nation was headed.

Like most, I remember when the definition of Fascism: Was when Government and Big Corporations jointly run a nation, without the will of the people.

Now, I understand my Great Uncle who was sent to Dachau saying that inside every progressive there was a Fascist waiting to get out.


9 posted on 08/09/2022 5:40:47 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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The FBI raided a President’s home.

What won’t The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate do?


10 posted on 08/09/2022 5:41:04 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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Therein lies the problem - 98% of dem’s and 60% of rep’s are thoroughly and utterly corrupted, bought and paid for. McConnell is a joke.


11 posted on 08/09/2022 5:41:41 AM PDT by Paco
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Sleeping with his Chinese wife.


12 posted on 08/09/2022 5:45:19 AM PDT by entropy12 (Trump pp& MAGA are the only way to keep USA viable.)
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To: Red Badger
“I’ve seen enough,” McCarthy said. “The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization.”

It certainly has! Now do something other than issuing a statement.

13 posted on 08/09/2022 5:46:17 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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14 posted on 08/09/2022 5:47:30 AM PDT by lowbridge ( )
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“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984


15 posted on 08/09/2022 5:47:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: tlozo

“”If it doesn’t have a justification, the material seized in it will be suppressed.””

Or leaked.


16 posted on 08/09/2022 5:49:06 AM PDT by lowbridge ( )
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To: tlozo

That’s just it. If there wasn’t materials at the time of the raid, there is now.
US Code 2071 will cancel Trumps ability to run for office. Dems are celebrating.
The “Progressives” wouldn’t chance this without having the fix in place.
There needs to be consequences.


17 posted on 08/09/2022 5:49:10 AM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos.)
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To: Jane Long

That’s because Biden is not in charge!


18 posted on 08/09/2022 5:49:56 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: blueunicorn6
"Where is McConnell?"

In Garland's office. On his knees.

19 posted on 08/09/2022 5:51:36 AM PDT by LIConFem (Read up on Russia's Oct, 1917 Revolution... And prepare.)
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To: blueunicorn6

I recall a phone call that Trump made to the Ukraine that absorbed the news for 2 weeks. The accusation was a sitting President was using a foreign gov’t to influence in an election. Sounds like the shoe is now on the other foot, and no one in Congress seems disturbed.


20 posted on 08/09/2022 5:52:11 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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