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.
Biden is blindsided by everything he hears every minute of the day.
Biden did not have to be in the loop for this ... or maybe he forgot he verbally authorized it. Plausible Deniability. The dems engage in group think. Garland could very well have executed this all on his own.
The timing is interesting. They have been investigating Trump since at least Apr/May. Why didn’t they search way back then? They waited until almost the last day ahead of the “90 days until the election countdown” to get maximum effect before the mid-terms. We are now at exactly 90 days until the election.
“So the FBI briefs the NY Times and not the White House, yea, sure“
I actually have no trouble believing that. Biden and his inner circle are not relevant to the actual, mostly invisible, government.
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
The Babylon Bee cannot compete with reality................
They might actually have been. This smacks much more of a Deep State operation than one that would ever be sanctioned by Democrat Party operatives who would fear the political blowback a raid like this will undoubtedly cause.
That said, Biden and the Democrats are going to get all the blame for it - and rightly so. They’ve weaponized several federal agencies to go after political opponents. The public is never going to buy it now when they try to claim innocence in orchestrating this.
NOTHING! like this could happen without the express approval of the sitting President if it involved a former President. NOTHING!
their lies are an endless stream flowing like a river.
We're in this together!
This is a junta, with various factions of the Dem party in control of various departments (DOJ, EPA, DHS) or other departments allowed to run themselves (DOD, State).
They only trot out the senile pants crapping figurehead when they need him for some public appearance.
Mudd was innocent.......................
The Obozo/Biden White House were integral parts of this Raid o n President Trump’s home.
“...documents that were reportedly marked as classified...”
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Documents are not marked as “classified”.
Documents that are classified are marked as:
Top Secret, Secret, Confidential, Restricted, Official, etc.
Do they expect me to believe that shit?
The only saving face for Biden is to fire Garland without delay. I still don’t believe the administration was unaware of this raid but this move could save one or two house seats this November. Maybe just one seat. Sorry, I lost my head for a minute.
LIES!
The thing is, Biden was riding high, he had the best two weeks of his Presidency, the Democrats had all the momentum going their way, and this put it to a screeching halt.
Biden is blindsided attempting to put on a jacket.
Obama is very pleased with himself that he was able to weaponize the entire Federal government against the American people. This is his dream to fundamentally change the country to third world. He did it!
First mention I've seen on "crossing the Rubicon." Ax, I thought of it first. lol
Well, I mean, what else are they going to say?
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