US Donald Trump Announces Mar-A-Lago "Raided, Under Siege, And Occupied" By The FBI - "They just left," one source said.

Source: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/donald-trump-says-mar-lago-raided-under-siege-fbi
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Donald Trump Announces Mar-A-Lago "Raided, Under Siege, And Occupied" By The FBI​

BY TYLER DURDEN
MONDAY, AUG 08, 2022 - 04:08 PM
Moments ago, Donald Trump - who is still banned by Twitter - published a statement on Truth Social in which he said that his Florida home, Mar A Lago is “currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents", an assault which according to Trump "could only take place in broken, Third-World Countries." He is probably right. He also claims the Fed's presence was unannounced and the reason was politically motivated.
His full statement posted on his Truth Social account is below:

Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the
United States of America
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. Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before. After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate. It is prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don't want me to run for President in 2024, especially based on recent polls, and who will likewise do anything to stop Republicans and Conservatives in the upcoming Midterm Elections. Such an assault could only take place in broken, Third-World Countries. Sadly, America has now become one of those Countries, corrupt at a level not seen before. 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.
The political persecution of President Donald J. Trump has been going on for years, with the now fully debunked Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2, and so much more, it just never ends. It is political targeting at the highest level!
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.
I stood up to America's bureaucratic corruption, I restored power to the people, and truly delivered for our Country, like we have never seen before. The establishment hated it. Now, as they watch my endorsed candidates win big victories, and see my dominance in all polls, they are trying to stop me, and the Republican Party, once more. The lawlessness, political persecution, and Witch Hunt must be exposed and stopped.

I will continue to fight for the Great American People!

Local reporters confirmed the raid, saying the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago. "They just left," although it isn't clear what the search was about.

While we await more information on what the FBI was doing at Mar-A-Lago or what they may have found, here are some kneejeak reactions.

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Bonus: I shit you not this comment from @SPhobos was at the top of this page when I added the archive link.

 

[Tacitus Kilgore]

This is political harassment. No better than what you would see in some authoritarian state the US government is always whining about.

They won't find anything. They are just doing this so they can say they did it because leftist are morons and don't understand how the legal system works.

Trump is still going to run and win in 2024.

FBI Raids Trumps FOB.

 

[Sicko Hunter]

All you faggots:

Trump dindu nuffin and if he did Hillary did it and also it's okay!

Trump's been out of office for two years yet still makes people blind with anger like this. Trump derangement syndrome is real. You'd think he personally threatened to rape every American with how much anger he generates.

 

[Polystyrene Glioblastoma]

I don't see how anything can be gained from this, Trump has multiple lawyers posted at his multiple abodes. There's not room for sloppiness regarding his security in all avenues, from paper to digital and physical. If anything, this will invigorate not only the right, but independents who have mixed feelings about him closer to casting a vote for him in 2024. I think this basically confirms Trump is running again. The GOP is already attempting to launch a committee probe into why this has happened and punishing those who initiated it.

Biden couldn't manage his way out of a wet paper bag. This administration's handlers behave worse than pothead 14 year olds partying in the manor while Papaw is on vacation. Multiple foreign policy blunders (can't forget the Biden admin botched the Afghanistan withdrawal that killed 13 troops), the dementia gaffs, and detrimental domestic economic policy. This invasion of privacy is just another strong case Trump can make that his orange, narcissist ass is better than sleepy, ice cream grandpa.

 

[Butcher Pete]

But from what I'm gathering, it seems like the best you can hope to do is "not shit up the local community". More than not being a benefit to it, you aren't even in the space to do so, and you'll be relying on those who can to perform the upkeep of said society to continue doing so for your sake. You're at the mercy of the natives, and you also have no recourse if said natives collectively mismanage their country like Americans have mismanaged their own country.

You don't need me to affirm you, surely, but I don't find your decision to leave the States something I should begrudge, especially if you're saying that you do your best to fit in. However, I don't anticipate that a mass exodus of any kind of people who technically still have a place to go back to is going to yield that same kind of person-- as the expat's personality can range from something like "obtrusive" to "conforming", I expect that many will tend towards the former, and will import their "rot" to wherever they emigrate.

If one's country is in increasingly bad shape, then-- like a home in need of cleaning-- I only find it sensible that one work towards the bettering of said country and home, in part because you have the means as part of the "in-group" to do so, and also in part because it's the fault of the American people that America is in its current position, in the first place. Even if you can say that you're deprived of power by whatever degree, you still occupy a workable position that you'll never have when you live as an expat in another country.

Well, I might be being unfair-- many immigrants come to the States without being forced out of their home country by circumstance, instead of doing what they can to ameliorate their own country and home. Some of them mostly or fully become American at heart after they're naturalized, and others still do not. My viewpoint is just that there's only so many places you can run to, and all of those places can decay as your home country does-- in which case, why not just do your best to keep your home country from ruin?

All people are not equal.

Superior people are superior and enjoy being around other superior people. And we don't like being around inferior people who can't do anything but cause problems and shit up everything they touch.

I have thrived here in a manner that was impossible in the states. Not though lack of ability, but through the piles of roadblocks American society throws in the path of any non-wealthy White man who has any ambition whatsoever.

The best gated community to live in is one where your inferiors can't even find the gate.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Don't lose hope guys, trust the plan.

 

[Blasphemian]

Some of the top comments from r/politics

Reddit with the big brain takes as always. Short sighted and retarded . If it happens to someone on their side they'll cry foul at the drop of a hat.

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

The FBI finally found where Elvis was hiding.

 

[Sithis]

Has the FBI conducted a single raid related to the international sex trafficking activities of Maxwell and Epstein against those two individuals who couldn't have possibly orchestrated such an operation by themselves?

 

[Pill Cosby]

Under Siege​

 

[Baroque]

"potential presidential candidate" lmao put up our shut up. We are all potential presidential candidates, that's why there was buzz about if Trump declared early (pre midterm) he would get some level of protection, at least political if not legal. Too late now though. I wonder if it would have been different.

 

[The Ugly One]

We're clearly at a point where to one side, hyperbole, alternative versions of events, hypocrisy, and actions that harm the legal system or against the law are okay with one side of the country's politics. People who can't be reasoned with, who can make excuses for anything, and hand-wave any amount of wrongdoing by those deemed on "their side" with ease. People for whom the concept of being wrong, of being in the wrong, and being in need of introspection are all alien concepts.

We're at a point where the people on 1/6 are somehow worse than the Floyd riots, or the Trump 2016 election riots. Where Hillary did nothing wrong, but Trump deserves an FBI raid. Where you're a cult member for being willing to vote for Donald Trump, and sensible for preferring Biden. Where teachers should be allowed to have private conversations on the topic of sex with children as early as third grade, and wanting that to end makes you "homophobic". Where Kyle Rittenhouse is a murderer, but George Floyd is a saint. I could go on, but I won't belabor that point.

This, the reactions to this from those people, and the way the whores in media cover it, should finally be a wake up call that these people wherever you see or hear them, have no interest whatsoever in morals, or principles. Indeed it could be said they're not interested in justice, in societal wellness, nor really the wellbeing of any particular person or group of persons.

These are people to whom their sole concern is being right. By silencing those who would disagree verbally, by assaulting those who would show up physically to protest, by leveraging the government and financial systems to those who would attempt to build spaces where they can do neither online, and by capturing influence in areas for discussion they do not yet have influence so they can again silence them.

While I know all talk of "healing the divide" is doublespeak horseshit for "putting the people back to sleep, and getting the layman to no longer care about politics", there is a real divide in this country and the reactions to this will be and are a stark reminder of who exactly I'm speaking of in this post. It's not going to "heal", regardless of what is done, for regardless of actions taken such disgusting types will view them and those they view aligned with them as victims regardless of context, and the only response that this can garner should Trump actually win in 2024 will be appropriate retaliation in kind.

So, just saying, this is a good reminder of who exactly supports the modern aristocracy. And hopefully it is a wake-up call to those still under the delusion that these people are reasonable, rational, or even indeed intelligent that you are dealing with the political equivalent of orks. They have no principles, they have no morals, they have no empathy, and their only real concern is either power or the perception of power via proxy.

These are the people who'd sell their own mother to a cartel brothel if they found out she voted for Trump. Keep that fact in mind past this point.

TL;DR - They want you broke and dead, your children raped and brainwashed, and they think it's funny.

They crossed the rubicon in the 1960s, when liberal judges started outright making shit up and claiming it was in the Constitution. That's when the left decided laws, procedures, and systems don't matter. The only thing that matters to them is power, and using it to get whatever you want. Democrat voters are okay with this, by and large. And no, it's not "both sides." If it had turned out that those allegations of Trump being a compromised pedophile on the FSB payroll were true, not only would turnout have been depressed, but your average Republican voter would have said, "Ugh, I can't believe we nominated such a piece of shit, he deserved to lose."

But whenever we get substantial evidence a Democrat is selling us out to our enemies, sexually abusing minors, groping underlings, what have you, let alone abusing power, most Democrats' first instinct is to engage in whataboutism, or attack the evidence, or somehow defend it. It's okay if it's their team, it's always okay as long as their side wins.

 

[Divine right to rule]

I think this was a major blunder, and that Trump will be strengthened by it.

 

[SBG]

Since the FBI just meekly left without (allegedly) even taking anything, and the Democrats haven’t come out with any canned statements while the Republicans have been going OFF, and that the official explanation is about some bullshit that got resolved ages ago and clearly amounted to a nothingburger today, I’m banking on “wasn’t supposed to happen”. If we wanna put on tinfoil hats, perhaps Trump allies or sympathizers in the Bureau set this up to blow up in the Dem’s faces.

If this was an op, they would’ve found something, real or fabricated, and announced it (or at least hinted it) immediately.

My guess is the FBI meant to do some extremely minor task of visiting to find out about some minor documents, but due to how wildly unprofessional they are they went overboard deciding to treat it as a raid. They’re used to creating spectacles like with the Roger Stone raid so may have had some idiots thinking they could do the same here.

 

[AnotherPleb]

Almost certainly this will not work, there is a process involved in this kind of stuff. Trump would almost certainly need to be first informed by the National Archives in writing that he is in violation and needs to return the material or face prosecution. We just have to wait and see if this process was followed. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/06/10/crisis_at_the_national_archives_137241.html talks about how Obama's admin was missing well over 10k items and how Hillary Clinton was in direct violation of the law during the handoff. Far as we can determine from early statements is that the FBI came and took away maybe a dozen documents in total.

When it comes to Trump they will persecute first and manufacture permission later. The process doesn't matter when Their Democracy is at stake.

I think this was a major blunder, and that Trump will be strengthened by it.

The Uniparty is one or two steps removed from bloodshed to prevent Trump from returning to office, and after yesterday I am fully confident that is on the table.

SBG said:
My guess is the FBI meant to do some extremely minor task of visiting to find out about some minor documents, but due to how wildly unprofessional they are they went overboard deciding to treat it as a raid. They’re used to creating spectacles like with the Roger Stone raid so may have had some idiots thinking they could do the same here.


It doesn't matter what they meant, if this was a fuckup they'd be recoiling to correct the record. They're being fucking silent on that front. Whoever did this did it with the full backing of the Uniparty and the deep state.

 

[The Ugly One]

The Secretary of State is an original classification authority and can declassify anything they classified, or anything derivatively classified under their guidance. They can only destroy records according to an approved record control schedule and doing official business over a laptop server in the bathroom is insane though.



She didn't just exfiltrate documents and put them on her iMac. I'm not even sure she removed or transmitted any marked, classified documents. She used her private email to discuss classified facts. Some of them belonged to the State Department, but that doesn't mean it was proper to store them on an insecure computer and transmit them over the internet. As an OCA, she had a special responsibility and special training to know what types of State information required protection. Other facts belonged to other government agencies. They had no idea they were compromised until the FBI forwarded HRC's emails to them and asked, "Uh, guys, is anything in here classified?"

If the FBI had been seriously investigating her, they would have had copies of her OCA briefing acknowledgement, classified information nondisclosure agreements, and SCI/SAP indoctrination agreements on hand during her interview. When she tried to play her Arkansaw Meemaw routine, "Shucks, the C inside the parentheses means copyrighted, don't it," they would have brought out the stack of papers where she repeatedly acknowledged she understood how classified information is identified and how it's handled. Then they would've gone through those one by one, confirming she signed them and she understood their contents, and then they'd return to the theme of mishandling classified information. The fact that they didn't do this tells you it was never a real investigation.

OK, so she can declassify things (which she didn't do), but everything else she did - including destroying devices and lying to the FBI - was illegal.

I have never heard a lib address why lying under oath or destroying evidence was okay. I mean, we all know what she was really doing, using the State Dept to solicit and launder bribes through the Clinton Foundation, but as we saw with the Hunter email scandal, libs think it's funny and cool when our enemies bribe our state officials for favorable policy as long as it's their team that gets the cash.

 

[CowPox]

I hate these people.

 

[borsabil]

Has the FBI conducted a single raid related to the international sex trafficking activities of Maxwell and Epstein against those two individuals who couldn't have possibly orchestrated such an operation by themselves?

They raided the Epstein mansion, but that seems only to collect and bury any evidence he was keeping there.

The two principles in the case were arrested. Epstein himself was picked up at the airport, Maxwell was arrested at her home in New Hampshire. Only the Maxwell arrest could be described as a raid, with the FBI leaking to the press that they "smashed down her door" (pressing X to doubt). In neither arrest were the press invited, not even CNN, which is odd for the publicity whores at the bureau. It was claimed that Maxwell was hiding out, which is total bullshit.

Epstein ahem killed himself and Maxwell was tried on downgraded charges with most of her victims not called to testify to limit the scope. She's now serving her time in a women's holiday camp and will likely be out in a few years. All of this only happened because Epstein was such a degenerate that he couldn't stop himself raping kids by the hundreds and it became impossible to keep a lid on it. If he'd shown even the slightest restraint both of them would be walking free and mixing with the elites.

"potential presidential candidate" lmao put up our shut up. We are all potential presidential candidates, that's why there was buzz about if Trump declared early (pre midterm) he would get some level of protection, at least political if not legal. Too late now though. I wonder if it would have been different.

Are you retarded? Trump is polling at 80% among GOP voters and he'd win a generic race against "President" shits his pants.

 

[Dude Snakes]

As angry I am for Trump shilling the clotshots this raid is completely unacceptable, it's making me want to support him again.

 

[Titos]

Way to confirm for alot of the population what many others already suspected. The FBI are just footsoldiers of the worlds largest terrorist organisation, the US government. What a retarded move.

 

[BelUwUga]

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Holy shit, did Biden have a scare and Kamala reverted back to her underhanded DA strats? Do they not understand the precedent this sets? There's, you know, actually evidence that would end with the entire Biden family in prison if this is what's now appropriate behavior. Not in some safe the confounded glowies might find is empty. Literally on this forum, with reporters, and even torrents. I genuinely cannot comprehend why they did this.