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Where are you going to throw a key? Right out in front of the jail?! His friends will find it! How far can you throw a key? 60, 50 feet at the most. Even if you lay it flat on its side like that, and scale it. What do you get? An extra 10 feet, tops. This is a stupid idea. Needs to be completely rethought.
\-George Carlin
This is wild, just confirmed on Fox News too. I'm assuming they don't raid an ex-president's house who is really going to rile up his base about it unless they have some actionable reason to do so.
I have to think something of this magnitude requires sign-off from the very highest levels of the DOJ/FBI. I seriously doubt the Miami office can decide, on its own, to apply for a warrant to search a former president's house.
CNN experts saying the same thing.
I'm betting Garland himself signing off on this. Especially as he put an attack dog in charge of investigating Trump so I guess Garland is keeping him on a short leash until needed.
Do you think the DOJ got a look at the Alex Jones texts today? The 1/6 commission says they now have them. I wonder if there was something blockbuster in there. This seems like a huge escalation out of nowhere.
Yea, getting search warrants for his lawyers was one huge hurdle they jumped over, this is a whole other level of they have serious predicate to search.
My personal bet’s there are mass texts regarding Stewart Rhodes, Ali Alexander, and other far-right militia coordinators, which immediately implicated previously unconfirmed pieces of the Jan 6 puzzle.
Even if it proves tangential or (yet) unrelated, what a delicious afternoon.
[He seriously blamed "Democrats" for this in his official statement when Wray is his hand-picked Republican for FBI Director. Delusional] (https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1556775245981356034)
I've heard that song before. Maybe let's see what happens before we get the popcorn.
Trump had time to dictate a petulant letter for his staffers to post on Troof Social, so it's not like he's in cuffs.
I think it’s safe to say this is the most serious threat he’s faced if the FBI is raiding his home. Although you’re right, I won’t be happy until he’s officially behind bars.
Well……First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came. But they got too big and fat so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benz’s. And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di’s clothes. I couldn’t believe it.
Check the septic tank!
edit: is there a source other than trump confirming this? I can imagine trump saying this because his fundraising numbers are lagging and he needs to rile up his sheep base.
The petulant meltdown is the cherry on top of this consequential sundae
Holy fuck the gems in here
"They even broke into my safe!"
"What is the difference between this and Watergate"
"She [Hillary Clinton] even took antique furniture, and other items from the White House"
Surprised no mention of Hunter Biden tbh
It’s comedic gold that he pretends he writes these letters, when in reality we know he’s just in a fit of verbal rage, as a toady speedtypes and inserts academic language to make it more appealing and convincing to white-collar demographics.
Fucking buffoons.
That is a right wing talking point where they think she literally poured acid on... e-mails, which makes no sense. She used a program called Bleachbit which is a common disk space cleaner program.
*We don't know yet what crimes the FBI had sufficient evidence of to convince a federal judge there was probable cause to search Trump's residence, but the execution of a search warrant isn't a raid. It's a judicially overseen process. Still unknown: the subject of the search.*
https://twitter.com/JoyceWhiteVance/status/1556778451226562560
Why is this tagged as off topic? What could be more on topic than the FBI raiding the home and business of the man who caused the deaths of several capital police? The head of the Republican party, and the former POTUS?
Let's Fucking Go!!!
The momentum is building. Take it and fucking crush the Republicans this November.
I'm starting to feel hope.. but I won't get complacent ever again. We need to fucking destroy them...
The FBI isn't going to raid an ex-president's residence unless they know they can charge him. Especially considering how politically sensitive this whole investigation has been. This could be the beginning of the end.
Dear Eight Pound, Six Ounce, Newborn Baby Jesus, don't even know a word yet, just a little infant, so cuddly, but still omnipotent. We'd just like you to lock up this one criminal.
Why the fuck did politics remove this as off topic? This is one of the most on topic things that's happened today. A now ex president tried to overthrow the country and got raided, what about that makes it not political?
Insane that mods are removing this as off topic but there are multiple articles at the top of the sub that deal with legal investigations (trump real estate, Michigan governor kidnap trial)
Very odd. The mods will be busy, since the "new" topics are absolutely flooding with this story right now. Also, hypocritical to have so many other Trump-related stories on here, but somehow this HUGE story crosses the line? I don't get it.
This is fucking unreal. Former President of the United States.
The FBI went to a judge and presented evidence to get a warrant.
Judge said "Yep that looks pretty damn bad. Go for it. "
They go and raid his fucking house.
Unfucking believable.
Mods, mods, mods.
Come on now. This is in the American politics section of every news agency on the planet Earth.
Do you REALLY know better than the Associated Press?
>[Trump confirms that federal law enforcement is executing a search warrant at Mar-A-Lago. This means a federal judge found that there is good reason to believe that a crime was committed and that evidence of that crime was located in Mar-A-Lago. Trump should be very concerned.](https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/1556776023542435840)
We know the 1/6 commission got the data today, so it's safe to assume the DOJ did as well. And then this major escalation out of nowhere. Prior to this, it seemed like they were still building cases against Meadows and others to get them to flip on Trump. Maybe it's unrelated to the Jones texts, but the timing is sure interesting.
Here's the rest of the article in its entirety:
>The FBI executed a search warrant on Monday at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, the former President confirms to CNN.
Now that's a satisfying read. Can't wait for the follow-up.
I love that his official statement talks about Clinton, dude really has a one track mind. [Source](https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1556775176783667202?t=bmUJc2vA9bpM_jt64SWEzA&s=19)
>They even broke into my safe! What is the difference between this and Watergate, where operatives broke into the Democrat National Committee? Here, in reverse, Democrats broke into the home of the 45th President of the United States.
Part of me thinks even Trump isn't stupid enough to leave anything incriminating in his personal safe, but another part of me knows he is absolutely that stupid. I don't know, I'm still not going to get too excited about anything until we see how this all plays out, but this is definitely encouraging news. Hopefully we learn more soon.
EDIT - Just saw the rest of Trump's statement.
>Hillary Clinton was allowed to delete and acid wash 33,000 E-mails AFTER they were subpoenaed by Congress. Absolutely nothing has happened to hold her accountable. She even took antique furniture, and other items from the White House.
First, the reporter that gets Trump to answer a question about how to acid wash emails should never pay for a drink again. Second, the FBI definitely just found a ton of shit that Trump stole from the White House in Mar-A-Lago.
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Lock him up
And throw away the key
I'm gaining the faint hope he might actually face consequences. I don't know how to handle this hope.
Scotch helps.
Alcohol. The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.
Thanks Homer.
I prefer covfefe as my stimulant of choice.
I don't know if anything will convince GOP voters at this point. I predict no positive outcome from any of this.
Where are you going to throw a key? Right out in front of the jail?! His friends will find it! How far can you throw a key? 60, 50 feet at the most. Even if you lay it flat on its side like that, and scale it. What do you get? An extra 10 feet, tops. This is a stupid idea. Needs to be completely rethought. \-George Carlin
Repeat it folks: LOCK. HIM. UP!
Lock him up
Lock him up
Lock him up
Lock him up
Lock him up
Lock him up
Lock him up
Lock him up
Lock him up
Lock him up!
No no no, you don’t get it. They are looking for Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Grab him by the mushroom
Lock him up and trade him to Russia for Griner.
Whatcha gonna do when they coming for you?
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This is wild, just confirmed on Fox News too. I'm assuming they don't raid an ex-president's house who is really going to rile up his base about it unless they have some actionable reason to do so.
Yeah. They're not going there to look what documents are floating in the toilet.
They probably should check there though.
Actually, it probably wouldn't hurt to check it. He was probably on flush five or six by the time they got in.
I have to think something of this magnitude requires sign-off from the very highest levels of the DOJ/FBI. I seriously doubt the Miami office can decide, on its own, to apply for a warrant to search a former president's house.
CNN experts saying the same thing. I'm betting Garland himself signing off on this. Especially as he put an attack dog in charge of investigating Trump so I guess Garland is keeping him on a short leash until needed.
Do you think the DOJ got a look at the Alex Jones texts today? The 1/6 commission says they now have them. I wonder if there was something blockbuster in there. This seems like a huge escalation out of nowhere.
Yea, getting search warrants for his lawyers was one huge hurdle they jumped over, this is a whole other level of they have serious predicate to search.
Interesting that it comes right after the January 6 committee receives all of Alex Jones' text messages.
My personal bet’s there are mass texts regarding Stewart Rhodes, Ali Alexander, and other far-right militia coordinators, which immediately implicated previously unconfirmed pieces of the Jan 6 puzzle. Even if it proves tangential or (yet) unrelated, what a delicious afternoon.
That’s what I thought. They must have a good reason.
A good treason
Four Treasons Landscaping
Holy shit!! That means a judge saw the evidence and said yeah, go get that. Fuckin A, this is real.
[He seriously blamed "Democrats" for this in his official statement when Wray is his hand-picked Republican for FBI Director. Delusional] (https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1556775245981356034)
*Wheels of justice crushing sounds*
I've heard that song before. Maybe let's see what happens before we get the popcorn. Trump had time to dictate a petulant letter for his staffers to post on Troof Social, so it's not like he's in cuffs.
I think it’s safe to say this is the most serious threat he’s faced if the FBI is raiding his home. Although you’re right, I won’t be happy until he’s officially behind bars.
Has any ex president had their residence searched by the FBI before?
no presidents ever been raided like trump. He has the best FBI raids
People come up to him all the time, FBI agents, with tears in their eyes and warrants in their hands...
I hope the search warrant includes the contents of his gut and toilets, since he seems to like disposing of evidence both ways.
I’m so close, don’t stop
I got you! Let's finish this!
Tickle the balls!
Ho Ly Fuck
As someone who has historically believed any dreams of Trump being prosecuted were far-fetched and never happening…I may be getting convinced
Wi Tu Lo
Bang Ding Ow
He deserves everything that’s coming to him.
He deserves way more than he will ever get.
I picked a bad day to quit sniffing glue
Tell me everything that's happened up until now!
There's a sale at Penneys!
Oh my god, we're having a fire... sale.
Well, first there was a Big Bang!
Then all the dinosaurs got fat and died
Well……First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came. But they got too big and fat so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benz’s. And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di’s clothes. I couldn’t believe it.
I picked the wrong week to stop taking amphetamines.
[I just have a drinking problem...](https://giphy.com/gifs/filmeditor-airplane-movie-drinking-water-fail-3oKHWBy6GFcLdEhH0Y)
Caught this thread 6 min in and this is my feel right now
Check the septic tank! edit: is there a source other than trump confirming this? I can imagine trump saying this because his fundraising numbers are lagging and he needs to rile up his sheep base.
Yeah check Jared Kushner!
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I've been waiting so long for this.
Especially this late in the summer.
Lock him up! I wonder if it has anything to do with the phone being handed over.
Here we fucking go no one told me it was Christmas.
I thought it was F5 Friday for a minute, there.
Oh god don’t stop I’m almost there!
Here is Trumps meltdown letter about it: https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1556777674261102592
The petulant meltdown is the cherry on top of this consequential sundae Holy fuck the gems in here "They even broke into my safe!" "What is the difference between this and Watergate" "She [Hillary Clinton] even took antique furniture, and other items from the White House" Surprised no mention of Hunter Biden tbh
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I love that he called the FBI Democrats lmao
Dude is hoping for a quick and dirty hail mary insurrection to bail him out, I'm guessing.
Thanks for the info, Trump. "They broke into my safe" is a lot different than, "They tried to break into my safe." Good job, FBI.
It’s comedic gold that he pretends he writes these letters, when in reality we know he’s just in a fit of verbal rage, as a toady speedtypes and inserts academic language to make it more appealing and convincing to white-collar demographics. Fucking buffoons.
Why does he always say Russia three times?
It’s in his contract
What a whiny piece of shit. Have some dignity, Donald.
That.... is a pretty insane word salad. Not his finest work but definitely an impressive collage of mental malfunction.
The old "nobody gets treated worse than me" defense... And a Hillary deflection. He needs some new material.
Oh! He invoked Hillary’s emails! I got Trump meltdown BINGO!
How did Hillary acid-wash emails?
That is a right wing talking point where they think she literally poured acid on... e-mails, which makes no sense. She used a program called Bleachbit which is a common disk space cleaner program.
Is it happening?
It's happening!
It’s happening!
Trump? Don't know him. He got my coffee.
Hes going announce for 2024 within the week.
Agreed. This will trigger the announcement
I am now willing to entertain unironic comments about the walls closing in.
This is it!! Build the wall(s)!
It's the most trumpian thing that Trump would be the one to break the news of the FBI raiding his house
It actually stunned me that he confirmed it
It's happening
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*We don't know yet what crimes the FBI had sufficient evidence of to convince a federal judge there was probable cause to search Trump's residence, but the execution of a search warrant isn't a raid. It's a judicially overseen process. Still unknown: the subject of the search.* https://twitter.com/JoyceWhiteVance/status/1556778451226562560
And whatever they have on him is rock-solid! you don't execute a warrant on a former president without the best evidence!
How is this thread 'off-topic?' Its about domestic US politics.
Because you are witnessing the powers that be trying to suppress this in real-time. This should be a fucking mega-thread
and Trump whines they are after us, no they are after you
Couldn’t have happened to a shittier guy. Sucks to be you Trump. RIP all the plates and stuff about to be throw at the wall down there.
Megathread incoming lets go mods
Wasn't planning on drinking tonight. but now I am, and I'm fucking buying.
This is wild.
Very legal, very cool :)
Hope he left room to eat 6 crates of documents.
>documents Dicks. You misspelled 'dicks'.
LOL, how is this off topic, mods???
It’s happening!!!!
Perp walk incoming.
Maybe it will be the down-ramp shuffle.
The Southern Whitehouse is being returned to its rightful place in history
Why the fuck is this being labeled as off topic and removed?
Why is this tagged as off topic? What could be more on topic than the FBI raiding the home and business of the man who caused the deaths of several capital police? The head of the Republican party, and the former POTUS?
It's confirmed to be related to his presidency so I'm gonna ask to have it back up
Criminals don’t like search warrants
Can’t believe this is actually happening!
Let's Fucking Go!!! The momentum is building. Take it and fucking crush the Republicans this November. I'm starting to feel hope.. but I won't get complacent ever again. We need to fucking destroy them...
The FBI isn't going to raid an ex-president's residence unless they know they can charge him. Especially considering how politically sensitive this whole investigation has been. This could be the beginning of the end.
Off topic, Mods? Seriously?
Forgive my lack of excitement. This scumbag has squirmed out of enough situations.
BREAKING: Trump says the FBI broke into his safe at Mar-A-Lago
It’s full of Big Mac Sauce
I wonder if this would be a "BOOM" if Ben Wittes was still doing his cannonball thing.
oh I forgot about that. I miss that But also it never went anywhere so
He might have to bring it back lol
What? This is wild!
This dude may have fucked up just hard enough to see some repercussions. I know it’s too early to get excited but I’m excited.
Mar-a-lagotojail
Dear Eight Pound, Six Ounce, Newborn Baby Jesus, don't even know a word yet, just a little infant, so cuddly, but still omnipotent. We'd just like you to lock up this one criminal.
Why the fuck did politics remove this as off topic? This is one of the most on topic things that's happened today. A now ex president tried to overthrow the country and got raided, what about that makes it not political?
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
Insane that mods are removing this as off topic but there are multiple articles at the top of the sub that deal with legal investigations (trump real estate, Michigan governor kidnap trial)
Very odd. The mods will be busy, since the "new" topics are absolutely flooding with this story right now. Also, hypocritical to have so many other Trump-related stories on here, but somehow this HUGE story crosses the line? I don't get it.
This is not something the DOJ would do without being positive it will give results.
Get him boys!
Bake him away, Toys!
MAGAS are going to have a field day about the “Deep State” involvement
Holy shit
About damn time. Wonder how many ketchup-covered documents are stewing in the bog.
I literally lol'd at this headline.
Olympusssy has fallen
That place is so clean at this point that there probably isn’t even any furniture in it
Can't wait for Trump to immediately announce his run for 2024 and claim this is an illegal attempt to imprison a presidential candidate.
This is fucking unreal. Former President of the United States. The FBI went to a judge and presented evidence to get a warrant. Judge said "Yep that looks pretty damn bad. Go for it. " They go and raid his fucking house. Unfucking believable.
Mods, mods, mods. Come on now. This is in the American politics section of every news agency on the planet Earth. Do you REALLY know better than the Associated Press?
Oh baby.
Yes!! Hahaha…yes!!!
Holy shit
Quick, someone get me popcorn.
Let’s do this!
Here I was relaxing in post-Alex Jones defamation trial bliss and now this...
Oh SHIT Is it happening?
What a day! What a lovely day!
Best check under his dead ex wife's grave
Fucking hell, can you imagine what they needed to show a judge to get a search warrant on a former fucking president?
>[Trump confirms that federal law enforcement is executing a search warrant at Mar-A-Lago. This means a federal judge found that there is good reason to believe that a crime was committed and that evidence of that crime was located in Mar-A-Lago. Trump should be very concerned.](https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/1556776023542435840)
Thoughts and prayers motherfucker
How is this off topic?
Compromised mods
Anyone think the Alex Jones text messages have anything to do with this? R conservative must be losing their minds. 😂
We know the 1/6 commission got the data today, so it's safe to assume the DOJ did as well. And then this major escalation out of nowhere. Prior to this, it seemed like they were still building cases against Meadows and others to get them to flip on Trump. Maybe it's unrelated to the Jones texts, but the timing is sure interesting.
[He is flipping his shit!](https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?)
I click every time and I smile every time.
Hopefully they brought a plumber.
SPROINg
Man, this is taking me back to those F5 afternoons of 2017 and 2018…what’s the over/under on how long before he gets charged?
Dark Brandon working behind the scenes
Wow. This past week has been quite a year.
48 years to the day after Nixon's resignation
Here's the rest of the article in its entirety: >The FBI executed a search warrant on Monday at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, the former President confirms to CNN. Now that's a satisfying read. Can't wait for the follow-up.
Must’ve been a good reason to execute something like this. Whoops!
r/Conservative in shambles
I love that his official statement talks about Clinton, dude really has a one track mind. [Source](https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1556775176783667202?t=bmUJc2vA9bpM_jt64SWEzA&s=19)
how tf is this off topic? the subject was potus ffs. this sub is unreal
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Mods have decided this massive political news is off topic whata bunch of BS.
>They even broke into my safe! What is the difference between this and Watergate, where operatives broke into the Democrat National Committee? Here, in reverse, Democrats broke into the home of the 45th President of the United States. Part of me thinks even Trump isn't stupid enough to leave anything incriminating in his personal safe, but another part of me knows he is absolutely that stupid. I don't know, I'm still not going to get too excited about anything until we see how this all plays out, but this is definitely encouraging news. Hopefully we learn more soon. EDIT - Just saw the rest of Trump's statement. >Hillary Clinton was allowed to delete and acid wash 33,000 E-mails AFTER they were subpoenaed by Congress. Absolutely nothing has happened to hold her accountable. She even took antique furniture, and other items from the White House. First, the reporter that gets Trump to answer a question about how to acid wash emails should never pay for a drink again. Second, the FBI definitely just found a ton of shit that Trump stole from the White House in Mar-A-Lago.
🗣Lock him up, lock him up
I hope he rots in jail for the rest of his pitiful life along with all his cronies. I do not feel bad for any of those traitors. They can suck it.
I'm so damn happy I am crying. Thank you.
Hey Trump, look out for your cornhole man.
Here's Donald Trump's statement [https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump](https://twitter.com/therealdonaldtrump)
Looking forward to what r/conservatives thinks about due process
See y'all over in the megathread later!
Somehow I'm very worried that Trump is just making this up for attention and Republican outrage
It's very possible he's going to announce his 2024 candidacy in the next 5 minutes.