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Majority see FBI as Biden’s 'personal Gestapo' after Trump raid
Washington Examiner ^ | August 18, 2022 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 08/22/2022 1:12:13 AM PDT by Mount Athos

The Justice-backed FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago winter resort home has increased the percentage of people who believe that President Joe Biden is using the G-men as his “personal Gestapo.”

In the latest Rasmussen Reports survey, 53% of likely voters agreed that “there is a group of politicized thugs at the top of the FBI that are using the FBI as Joe Biden’s personal Gestapo.”

Asked the same question last December, the portion who agreed with that view was 46%.

In between, the agency increased its focus on Trump and reports that he hoarded documents from his administration stamped “secret” at Mar-a-Lago, which the national police agency raided last week, taking several boxes of documents, including Trump’s current and old passports.

The new survey was suggested by New York Post columnist Miranda Devine, who wrote today that conservatives have had it with the FBI, while liberals, once the agency’s biggest critics, have found a new love.

“Liberals are happy because a politicized agency is coming after their ideological enemies, particularly their bête noire, Trump. It’s a stark turnaround from the days of decrying the FBI’s efforts to target Martin Luther King. The left has discarded any pretense of caring about civil liberties or injustice and instead sneers at conservatives who they claim are the ones who have jettisoned their core principles and now are ‘anti-cop,’” she wrote.

The Gestapo charge was coined by Trump supporter Roger Stone.

“The agency’s standing is at rock bottom among Republicans and conservatives, and not too healthy with independents and moderates,” wrote Devine, the author of Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide.

The details of the survey, shared with Secrets, will be unveiled later this morning.

Overall, said Rasmussen, the raid made voters trust the FBI less, though a majority still have a favorable opinion of the agency.

The survey found that 44% said they trust federal agents less, while 29% said they trust them more. But by a 50%-46% margin, voters have a favorable impression of the FBI. That is actually better than when the same question was asked in December.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; fbi; gestapo; raid
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1 posted on 08/22/2022 1:12:13 AM PDT by Mount Athos
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Biden’s Bundes Gestapo


2 posted on 08/22/2022 1:17:13 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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Some things are so obvious, that even 37% of Democrats can acknowledge it. https://t.co/DLrLOPgGKw— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) August 19, 2022

76% of Republicans, 49% of Independents, and even 37% of Democrats think @potus is using the @fbi as his personal 'Gestapo.'https://t.co/jdpFvebK0R#FBIRaid pic.twitter.com/C1uwHtpO5X— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) August 18, 2022


3 posted on 08/22/2022 1:20:03 AM PDT by conservative98
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The rest remain under the spell of the MSM — mainly Comcast and Disney.


4 posted on 08/22/2022 1:23:25 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Gene Eric

Something else we did nazi coming.

/s

;D


5 posted on 08/22/2022 2:07:28 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: Mount Athos

I’m more inclined to think of it as an American KGB.

The Gestapo didn’t engage in manipulating national politics except at Hitler’s explicit direction, whereas the KGB acted like the Roman Praetorian Guard, creating it’s own policies and replacing Emperors at will. Remember that the KGB spawned Putin.


6 posted on 08/22/2022 2:13:53 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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FBI ... and the IRS

to name just a couple


7 posted on 08/22/2022 2:40:11 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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creating it’s own policies and replacing Emperors at will.

Good point. They certainly worked hard against Trump for these last 7 years.

Biggest difference I see is they are being directed...by someone like maybe Zerohissef and his cabal.


8 posted on 08/22/2022 2:41:10 AM PDT by Adder (ALL Democrats are the enemy. NO QUARTER!!)
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I would add the EPA also!!


9 posted on 08/22/2022 2:41:32 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Mount Athos

Even the Census bureau! The latest news is they were caught cooking the numbers so Democrat states gained reps and Republicans lost them.


10 posted on 08/22/2022 3:01:37 AM PDT by Nateman (If Mohammad was not the Anti Christ he definitely comes in as a strong second..)
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11 posted on 08/22/2022 3:19:35 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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Apparently this all started because the archive wanted back a note from the north Korea dictator..and one from a former US dictator ..Obama


12 posted on 08/22/2022 4:09:22 AM PDT by RummyChick
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I see mostly “selected” Presidents (with the exception of elected Trump) as compromised puppets of the Deep State - CIA/FBI/State Dept/EPA/FakeNewsMSM etc etc etc.

don’t let them win. time to bring them down.


13 posted on 08/22/2022 4:19:49 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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I’m shocked!


14 posted on 08/22/2022 5:30:03 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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The bad agents make the other 5% look bad.


15 posted on 08/22/2022 5:37:18 AM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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FBI as Biden’s 'personal Gestapo' after Trump raid


16 posted on 08/22/2022 6:10:29 AM PDT by spokeshave (Get ahead by banning fossil fools, like McConnell, Biden, Pelosi, Feinstein, Schumer, Leahy, etc.)
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Well at least they get something right…


17 posted on 08/22/2022 6:43:41 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: Mount Athos

I think most of us see the new FBI as Jo Jo’s personal Keystone Cops.


18 posted on 08/22/2022 6:58:39 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The House is supposed to represent the people, not the friggin' Federal government. )
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I now see the Capitol Police as Nancy Pelosi’s Praetorian Guard.


19 posted on 08/22/2022 7:09:18 AM PDT by vaskypilot
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To: Mount Athos

This is quickly becoming the Patterns of Force Star Trek TOS where Gill was installed as the Nazi leader and quickly subdued.


20 posted on 08/22/2022 7:23:08 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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