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Ex-Trump advisor whose home was raided by FBI says search was intimidation attempt
New York Post ^ | Aug. 17, 2024, | Rich Calder

Posted on 08/17/2024 5:58:53 PM PDT by george76

A former advisor to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump claims his Virginia home was raided by FBI agents this week.

Dimitri Simes, whose name came up over 130 times in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s 2019 report into Russian interference in the presidential election, told the Rappahannock News he was out of the U.S. and wasn’t notified ahead of Tuesday’s search.

He also insisted he’s not aware of being the focus of any law-enforcement investigation.

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The raid “clearly is an attempt to intimidate, not only somebody from Russia, but just anyone who goes against official policies and particularly against the deep state,”

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My suspicion is that instead of trying to get me to come to the United States and to interrogate me — or even to arrest me — their real purpose is to make sure that I would not come back,” said Simes, who hasn’t been in the U.S. since October 2022...

Simes also compared the raid of his property in Huntly, about an hour outside Washington D.C., to law enforcement crackdowns on Trump and other political figures connected to the ex-president and current Republican presidential nominee, including ex-NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

“A number of prominent Americans were subjected to searches or even put in jail, or made bankrupt,” he said.

“So, this is the way American law enforcement is working today? If somebody goes against the political mainstream, in particular against the Biden administration, the punishment may be very swift.”

His son, Dimitri Simes Jr, openly suggested the Biden administration is trying to intimate his dad and others

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Simes and the Center for the National Interest were featured prominently in the Mueller report, but were cleared of any wrongdoing.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia; Ukraine; War
KEYWORDS: 2019; 2022; 202210; cni; crossfirehurricane; dimitrisimes; fbi; fbiagents; fbiraid; huntly; raid; raided; robertmueller; russiahoax; simes; somes

1 posted on 08/17/2024 5:58:53 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

Biden in his last interview said Trump is a security threat and “watch what happens”.

I’m certain they are concocting a new conspiracy against Trump.


2 posted on 08/17/2024 6:04:06 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: george76

If SCAMala wins/steals this election, I don’t even want to think of the crap they are going to pull especially with this absolute psychotic Tim Walz as VP who I damn well know is working for China.
Back in 2020 when they stole the election, I half jokingly said our government is now under enemy occupation. I had no idea I would be proven right a billion times over. Be prepared for these bastards, keep your guns cleaned, oiled and ready. Clean guns shoot better.


3 posted on 08/17/2024 6:19:04 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: george76

We are a totalitarian nation under this administration.


4 posted on 08/17/2024 6:31:29 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Being prepared for these bastards means being prepared to KILL THEM! Send them to HELL.

Fail to do that and your “clean” guns WILL be used against you.


5 posted on 08/17/2024 6:31:40 PM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Williams

Biden is puppet sh t.


6 posted on 08/17/2024 6:34:50 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: george76

Mayorkas is the Regime’s gestapo leader who controls DHS, FBI, CIA and SS.
He needs to be raked over the coals and interrogated.
After that’s done-hang him.
Do republicans have the balls to go after him?
They better. They will be next to be raided if Kramala wins.


7 posted on 08/17/2024 6:45:54 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: george76

Bookmark


8 posted on 08/17/2024 7:17:32 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: george76
By now all affiliated with Trump should have everything in their homes safely kept someplace else.

...and set up remote activated fart spray to fill the house when they show up.

9 posted on 08/17/2024 7:23:47 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (there will come a day when FR rejects articles from the NYT, et al. as "Commie trash, no thank you")
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Farther spray, sheesh.
Try oxy/acetylene


10 posted on 08/17/2024 7:57:46 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: OHPatriot
Being prepared for these bastards means being prepared to KILL THEM! Send them to HELL.

Fail to do that and your “clean” guns WILL be used against you.

You’re exactly right. Ask yourself, if Communist China invaded and took over the U.S. tomorrow, how would things be any different than they are under the current Marxist democrat regime? Other than different flags and a different tyrant on the “dear leader” propaganda posters, they wouldn’t be different at all. Yet (I would hope) we would fight with everything we had to repel a Communist Chinese invasion. Yet when the same takeover occurs more slowly and surreptitiously from within, everyone just keeps telling themselves convenient little lies to avoid having to “get involved” and stand up to the tyranny. Our nation’s founders would be ashamed of us.

11 posted on 08/17/2024 9:44:13 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Williams

The EVIL Judge is going to send Trump to PRISON in Sept.....in an ORANGE JUMPSUIT AND HANDCUFFS!!


12 posted on 08/18/2024 4:13:31 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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