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.
Post 96 might shine some light on Hillary
Now I’m convinced Obozo is running the White House.
Liars
Source? Information that explosive cannot be used without verification.
The fact that the White House didn’t know is scary! They don’t seem to know a thing. Lots of people have a case of “I don’t Know and I can’t remember.”
OK White House, you want to prove you didn’t know? Fire Garland. Fire Wray. Fire the agents involved in the raid. Start impeachment proceedings against the judge that signed off on this. Call Trump and apologize. Say to Americans, in a press conference held today, that it was unconstitutional, un-American, and just plain stupid, and it will NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. That’s the minimum to be done by a WH that was supposedly blindsided by this.
Number 2!!
White House didn’t know? Could it be possible that President Trump cough cough authorized this which allows Buyden to be blamed? What can Buyden do - take the blame or admit he’s the fake President.....
When you try to eliminate the king...you’d better not miss.
They didn’t even hit the barn door...
“”Trump brought with him to Mar-a-Lago “”
Some day - reporters will learn the difference between BRING and TAKE!!
Trump TOOK with him to Mar-a-Lago....
Team Biden must be confident that there won’t be a visit to The Big Guy’s place when the next administration is in place.
The fact that the White House didn’t know is scary! They don’t seem to know a thing. Lots of people have a case of “I don’t Know and I can’t remember.”
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It’s as if there are separate and competing criminal cartels
in that district of Washington fighting for control.
As if its chaos and open gangland war in the
Washington District of Cartels.
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Won’t happen, unless the blowback is hurricane force category 5..................
My behind foot.
I hate it when someone pisses down my leg and says it’s raining outside.
Right here on FR
Splendid! Thank you.
gets anywhere near the Oval Office," -- Liz Cheney
Nobody believes that, although many Dems will pretend that they do.
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