Free Republic

Eric Trump said a personal safe they claim was breached by a group of FBI agents in a raid on the former president’s Mar-a-Largo estate on Monday was empty. “To have 30 FBI agents, actually more than that, descend on Mar-a-Largo, give absolutely no notice, go through the gate, start ransacking an office, ransacking a closet, you know—they broke into a safe. He didn’t even have anything in the safe,” the younger Trump told Fox News Sean Hannity on Monday. Eric declared that the raid was conducted to see whether his father possessed any potential confidential documents from his time...

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/64872441/united-states-v-sealed-search-warrant/

Did Merrick Garland have to approve this Trump raid, or can the FBI move on its own? Did the FBI move on its own? My take is that this raid had to be approved by the DOJ, meaning Attorney General Merrick Garland. Your input is appreciated!

Before he even found a designer and a shipyard for the project, Staluppi went ahead and bought the engines for it: three MTU 16V 396 TB94 engines of 2,520 kW and 3,500 hp each and three Kamewa waterjets. In a move that was described then as unheard of, he had the propulsion system and wanted to build a boat around it; that approach remains highly unlikely to this day. After speaking with the team, including Heesen and Mulder, they cut off sections from the bottom of the hull, the boxes next to the waterjets, in a bid to make it...

Taiwan warned Tuesday that Chinese military drills aren’t just a rehearsal for an invasion of the self-governing island but also reflect ambitions to control large swaths of the western Pacific, as Taipei conducted its own exercises to underscore it’s ready to defend itself. Angered by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit to Taiwan, China has sent military ships and planes across the midline that separates the two sides in the Taiwan Strait and launched missiles into waters surrounding the island. The drills, which began Thursday, have disrupted flights and shipping in one of the busiest zones for global trade....

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s own court filings against President Trump, Sen. Lindsey Graham, and other Republicans reveal her investigation is a sham because its ‘central focus’ rests on a lie.A Georgia county prosecutor falsely claimed in a federal court filing last week that Donald Trump requested the Georgia secretary of state “‘find 11,780 votes’ in the former President’s favor.” This falsehood exposes the Fulton County district attorney’s “grand jury” investigation and her targeting of Trump, Sen. Lindsey Graham, and other Republicans as a sham.In the response brief she filed last Thursday in support of the special purpose grand...

It turns out that the cloth masks that were readily available to the general public and widely mandated during the covid pandemic were (1) unable to block the virus from penetrating in either direction and (2) breeding grounds for bacteria and fungi. A Japanese study published in Scientific Reports found that while most of the bacteria and fungi on the masks were not harmful to humans, some bacteria caused diseases like food poisoning and staph infections, and some fungi caused ringworm, athlete's foot, and jock itch. Washing the masks only temporarily reduced the quantity of bacteria and fungi. People with...

The better question: Are they trying to hand Donald Trump the nomination in 2024? After news of the raid broke and leaks about its purpose began circulating yesterday evening, speculation about an attempt to disqualify Trump started circulating on social media. Attorney Marc Elias called it “a potential blockbuster”:Yes, I recognize the legal challenge that application of this law to a president would garner (since qualifications are set in Constitution). But the idea that a candidate would have to litigate this is during a campaign is in my view a "blockbuster in American politics."— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) August 9,...

Lawyers for Donald Trump mediated with the FBI, Secret Service, and the Department of Justice and struck a deal that gagged the former president from disclosing the raid at Mar-a-Lago as it was underway, Radar has exclusively learned. In the hour after the FBI made the sensational unannounced search of the Florida property on Monday, the two feuding factions – the Trump team and law enforcement — agreed to keep the raid quiet over concerns that pro-Trump supporters would turn violent. It wasn’t until the vast majority of the agents who descended on Mar-a-Lago had left the scene that Trump...

Join RSBN's Christina Bobb and Brian Glenn with special guests Kari Lake and Marjorie Taylor Greene as they breakdown the events that unfolded on Monday August 8th, 2022 where the FBI raided the 45th President Donald J. Trump's Mar-a-Lago home. Broadcast begins at 1PM ET.

Toxic masculinity has been under fire since third-wave feminism in the ‘90s, and for good reason – men have brought nothing but wickedness and dirty laundry into the world from the beginning. Want examples? Here are 9 horrible things brought to you by toxic masculinity: The wheel: It was just an excuse to frame women for running over curbs! Running water: Seems like a technological advance, but it's just another male ploy to keep women in the kitchen where they belong. Disgusting! Sports: NASCAR, WWE, MMA – the oppression runs so deep that even most women's sports are run by...

MOSCOW. Aug 9 (Interfax) - Ukraine's Gas Transport System Operator (GTSOU) has accepted a request from Gazprom for Tuesday to transport 42.1 million cubic meters of gas through the country, up from 41.8 mcm on Monday, data from GTSOU show. Capacity was requested only through one of two entry points into Ukraine's Gas Transport System, the Sudzha metering station. A request was not accepted through the Sokhranivka metering station. "Gazprom is supplying Russian gas for transit through the territory of Ukraine at the volume confirmed by the Ukraine side via the Sudzha metering station at 42.1 million cubic meters on...

Many in the US political sphere seem convinced that we are on the verge of an apocalyptic moment. On the left, outlets like Jacobin like to point out that income inequality is at the highest it’s been since 1917 — the implication, of course, being that 1917 was the year when the Bolsheviks overthrew Nicholas’s Russia and founded the Soviet Union1. On both the left and right, outlets like the Vice2 and The Federalist3 wonder if the highly polarized political environment will boil over into a second civil war. Both the left and right have their own narratives about what...

I live in Miami and a week or so ago I received a mail-in ballot for Precinct 771.0 with the following names. I intend to vote in person. Any information or suggestions would be appreciated: Congress District 27: Frank Polo REP 20 / Maria Elvira Salazr REP 21 Commissioner of Agriculture: James W Shaw REP 43 / Wilton Simpson REP 44 Circuit Judge 11th Judicial Circuit Group 3: TeressaMaria Cervera 90 / Lody Jean 91 Circuit Judge 11th Judicial Circuit Group 20: Brenda Guerrero 92 /Robert Watson 93 Circuit Judge 11th Judicial Circuit Group 34: Mark Blustein 94 / Ariel...

Reports of the death of Myanmar's ambassador to China last Sunday in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming seemed all normal until reporters noted that he is the fourth ambassador to China to die within a year while in office. ... A statement by the Foreign Ministry in Myanmar announced the death of Ambassador U Myo Thant Pe without providing details on the cause of his death, despite media reports in China and Myanmar suggesting it was the result of a heart attack. Even though news of the ambassador's death did not cause major reactions in Myanmar, the country that...

Republican voter registration numbers in Wyoming have grown by a small margin as Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) invited Democrats to change parties to vote in the open Republican primary on August 16, while Democrat voter registration numbers have shrunk. The numbers suggest a slight migration of Democrats to Cheney’s cause, but not nearly at the scale needed for her to overcome the margin by which she currently trails in the primary. According to the data, registered Republicans in Wyoming have increased by 11,495 from January to August this year. The number of registered Democrats, on the other hand, has shrunk...

Joe Scarborough was in all his predictable glory on today's Morning Joe over yesterday's FBI search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago. Inevitably, Scarborough broke out his "fascist" shtick, using the term nine times in one exchange with Michael Steele in describing Trump and his followers. The exchange ended with Scarborough literally screaming at the camera:"You break the law, you go to jail . . . In America—even in the age of Trump! No! Man! Is above the law!"Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Republican Sen. Tim Scott said he was shocked but would not rush to judgment after the FBI searched former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, a major escalation of the Justice Department's probe into potential mishandling of White House records."We need to let this play out and see exactly what happens. But we should have been stunned and surprised and shocked with what happened yesterday," the South Carolina senator said Tuesday on "CBS Mornings."

BREAKING: DC court appeals rules that the House Ways and Means Committee can obtain Trump’s tax returns from the IRS

The traveling ICU nurse who killed six people in a horror crash in Los Angeles on Thursday after plowing her Mercedes 90mph through a busy intersection has a 'profound' history of mental illness and has been involved in 13 prior crashes, but was still somehow subcontracted to work in a hospital and allowed to drive. Nicole Lorraine Linton, 37, is in custody on six murder charges as a result of Thursday's crash. Among those she killed was pregnant Asherey Ryan, 23, her one-year-old son Alonzo and Reynold Lester, the father of Asherey's unborn baby, who also died. On Tuesday, Craig...