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.

 

[Dr J]

nah everybody knew WWII was inevitable

"This is not peace. It is an armistice for 20 years." - Field Marshall Ferdinand Foch.

'Peace for our time' - Neville Chamberlain

 

[mold]

"This is not peace. It is an armistice for 20 years." - Field Marshall Ferdinand Foch.

It was so obvious war was coming that when you read books set in the interwar period it's impossible to tell from the text whether the author is being prescient or whether the anschluss has already happened. You have to check the publication date.

 

[The Last Stand]

And the Republicans are just as stupid for not being able to make bank in elections on how lunatic infested the democrats have become.

Trump basically took over that market.

 

[KiwiFuzz]

Well, Hillary Clinton should certainly never be president again! LOCK HER UP!

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

Trump basically took over that market.

And he's such a goofy dumb clown that his opponent had to send in some goons to check if his toilet seat was down, because nobody would be that desperate to risk an already negative reputation just to smear said goofy dumb clown.

 

[Trust Me I Know]

btw the supreme court has already ruled multiple times that the qualifications clauses in the constitution are the only legal restrictions for holding the offices those clauses cover

That's why you will never see congressional term limits absent a constitutional amendment, the constitution's qualification clauses for the House and Senate don't mention them so they're not legal. That's why presidential term limits had to be enacted via constitutional amendment

Marc Elias is really stupid lol

I don't think the goal is to actually legally bar Trump from office. The goal is to spend the next two years claiming that he can't hold office, and when the Supreme Court says "No, Congress doesn't have the power to do that." (likely with the 6 Republican appointed justices as the majority), Democrats can then attack SCOTUS as partisan and enabling fascism. Then they hope they'll have enough approval to justify stacking the court. All to save Our Democracy, of course.

 

[Dr J]

And the Republicans are just as stupid for not being able to make bank in elections on how lunatic infested the democrats have become.

They're not stupid. Stop calling them stupid. They know damn well what they're doing, they're just controlled opposition. It's the job of parasites like McConnell to leech energy from the right so that they pose no meaningful opposition to the uniparty agenda.

Take this current midterm election. Should be a blowout. Republicans should easily win 230+ seats in the House and 4+ seats in the Senate. But Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell don't want a blowout. Why? Because a blowout means they get thrown out of power. The last time Republicans had a 230+ majority in the House, McCarthy, who wanted to replace Boehner, didn't get the Speakership. The Republicans nominated Paul Ryan as a compromise candidate (Ryan himself grifting his way into office on the back of the Tea Party and Tea Party enthusiasm). This time, there are no compromise candidates

It was so obvious war was coming that when you read books set in the interwar period it's impossible to tell from the text whether the author is being prescient or whether the anschluss has already happened. You have to check the publication date.

It's easy to say that in hindsight. Of course we know now that another war was inevitable. But people living then didn't see it that way.

 

[mold]

It's easy to say that in hindsight. Of course we know now that another war was inevitable. But people living then didn't see it that way.

can you read? I literally just said it's extremely common in pre-anschluss novels, not even super literary ones, for characters to discuss the coming war. it's also very common in essays and journalism of the era.

 

[The Ugly One]

I don't know I'd go as far as to say the rubicon was crossed, but it was actually certainly touched upon. While I agree its more than likely no one will do shit, today was interesting for a few big reasons.

The biggest in my opinion is that the conservative movement was lured into some kind of mental trap where they adopted this radical librtarian ideal of "As long as they're not coming for me personally, I'm not involved." which is a pretty great trap as it appeals to the conservative value of individuality and allows you to take just about anything that's thrown at you until its too late to resist.

However the thing here today is, the FBI came after someone in what is percieved as their home. They've come for his friends. They've come for his family, and now they've come for his home, and he's the former (and rightful) President of the United States. This should be the moment where every retard chanting "Not until they come to my home" realizes, they're already at that point, they just need a vauge excuse signed off by a shill judge they appointed and no one ran against to execute it.

For a reasonable society, the rubicon should be crossed. For our society that waves "Don't Tread On Me!" Flags while masking up for two years and not leaving their homes? It'll probably be over and done with in two or three weeks time.

The reason this isn't a Rubicon moment is that Trump is viewed by most of the political world as a special exception. He's the exact kind of guy the system was meant to keep out, so the usual rules and conventions don't apply to him. The Republicans in Washington never accepted him as one of them. They were far more concerned with trying to find a way to either cripple or get rid of Trump without having their own voters revolt than they were with getting anything done, which is why they gladly allied with Democrats on the Mueller investigation and initially stood behind Liz Cheney's J6 antics.

Obama's people kicked around the idea of doing this exact thing to Bush administration, but they never did, because that would have been a Rubicon moment. That would have been declaring war, not on an ex-President that everyone in DC agrees is a greater danger to America than the PRC or fentanyl, but on the entire Republican Party. So Holder et al. backed down. Putting Bush and Cheney in jail would have meant that the next time the GOP establishment took power, they would have gone scorched earth. And if you don't believe me, the last time the Democrats subverted the system to fuck over the GOPe instead of their mutual enemy, the American people, Mitch McConnell took no prisoners and enacted generational change on the judiciary.

 

[Dr J]

can you read? I literally just said it's extremely common in pre-anschluss novels, not even super literary ones, for characters to discuss the coming war.

Cite some examples

it's also very common in essays and journalism of the era.

It's also extremely common in essays and journalism of the era to see people argue that there will be no war, that the First World War was the war to end all wars.

I mean shit, you had people back in the 70s and early 80s saying the Soviet Union was going to collapse, which is extremely fucking obvious now, now that we know what we know. But most people didn't think that way back then. Most people assumed the Soviet Union would be here forever

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

They're not stupid. Stop calling them stupid. They know damn well what they're doing, they're just controlled opposition. It's the job of parasites like McConnell to leech energy from the right so that they pose no meaningful opposition to the uniparty agenda.

Kicking yourself in the nuts ain't smart.

 

[Abbadon's Gate]

The reason this isn't a Rubicon moment is that Trump is viewed by most of the political world as a special exception. He's the exact kind of guy the system was meant to keep out, so the usual rules and conventions don't apply to him. The Republicans in Washington never accepted him as one of them. They were far more concerned with trying to find a way to either cripple or get rid of Trump without having their own voters revolt than they were with getting anything done, which is why they gladly allied with Democrats on the Mueller investigation and initially stood behind Liz Cheney's J6 antics.

Obama's people kicked around the idea of doing this exact thing to Bush administration, but they never did, because that would have been a Rubicon moment. That would have been declaring war, not on an ex-President that everyone in DC agrees is a greater danger to America than the PRC or fentanyl, but on the entire Republican Party. So Holder et al. backed down. Putting Bush and Cheney in jail would have meant that the next time the GOP establishment took power, they would have gone scorched earth. And if you don't believe me, the last time the Democrats subverted the system to fuck over the GOPe instead of their mutual enemy, the American people, Mitch McConnell took no prisoners and enacted generational change on the judiciary.

I think you have a misunderstanding in your very first sentence. Most people don't care what the "Political World" IE The Elites think about someone. In a moment where the rubicon is crossed, it is crossed by the people, and the people very much do care about Trump be it love or hate. If you think the "Cross the Rubicon" moment is going to involve a bunch of Rupblican Lawmakers standing up and declaring succession or whatever, you're not gonna see that ever, because its not gonna go down that way.

Now that's not to say a Rubicon moment can't or won't be kicked off by an Elite doing something stupid, just that they're not gonna be the ones who make it happen. The Rubicon will truly be crossed when a large portion of the country decides "You know what? I'm not paying taxes this year." or some other large scale thing, and I see shit like that getting discussed in more and more places. I wouldn't be surprised if come 2024 you don't actually see some cities or groups attempt it.

I mean clearly the elites are expecting it,there's a reason they just hired like 87,000 new IRS agents and started purchasing hollowpoints.

 

[mold]

Cite some examples

you get one: it's all over Gaudy Night, published in 1935. it's a good example because Sayers was a detective novelist and a medievalist, which means that vis a vis foreign affairs she was just a regular person. It was obvious to regular people.

now you give me an example of someone who wasn't a delusional pacifist saying lol there's not gonna be a war. you will have a hard time.

 

[George Lucas]

you get one: it's all over Gaudy Night, published in 1935. it's a good example because Sayers was a detective novelist and a medievalist, which means that vis a vis foreign affairs she was just a regular person. It was obvious to regular people.

now you give me an example of someone who wasn't a delusional pacifist saying lol there's not gonna be a war. you will have a hard time.

wowwhat a very gender-fluid and progressive goalpost.

 

[The Ugly One]

I think you have a misunderstanding in your very first sentence. Most people don't care what the "Political World" IE The Elites think about someone.

The people who control all the actual power in America do. You and I don't care what they think, but you and I can't file multi-million dollar lawsuits. You and I aren't potentially an election cycle away from being able to commandeer federal agencies. You and I aren't being given on a say on which institutions get funded, and which get defunded. You and I can't bring RICO investigations against the thinly-disguised criminal conspiracies that Democrats rely on to win elections. Do you think the inflation reduction act or whatever is stupid? Cool, but guess what, those hundreds of billions will get spent anyway.

In a moment where the rubicon is crossed, it is crossed by the people, and the people very much do care about Trump be it love or hate. If you think the "Cross the Rubicon" moment is going to involve a bunch of Rupblican Lawmakers standing up and declaring succession or whatever, you're not gonna see that ever, because its not gonna go down that way.

Imagine if they'd gone this hard after Bush once he was out of office. If that had happened, every Republican Senator, governor, Congressman, mayor, military officer, and alphabet agent would have realized that no one is safe, that any agency of government is just a tool to strike your enemies with. As gay and retarded as the GOP is, they control far more power than you give them credit for. They don't do anything with it because they have a generational understanding with the Democrats that the purpose of government is to steal money from Americans and keep the trough full, with each party taking turns. That understanding is really, really fragile right now, but going after Trump isn't blowing up Washington the way going after Bush would have.

Now that's not to say a Rubicon moment can't or won't be kicked off by an Elite doing something stupid, just that they're not gonna be the ones who make it happen. The Rubicon will truly be crossed when a large portion of the country decides "You know what? I'm not paying taxes this year." or some other large scale thing, and I see shit like that getting discussed in more and more places. I wouldn't be surprised if come 2024 you don't actually see some cities or groups attempt it.

I mean clearly the elites are expecting it,there's a reason they just hired like 87,000 new IRS agents and started purchasing hollowpoints.

Spontaneously emergent revolts only happen in libertarian children's stories.

 

[WelfareNiggerQueen]

And the Republicans are just as stupid for not being able to make bank in elections on how lunatic infested the democrats have become.

Lmao I know right. All they have to do is promote libs of TikTok specifically the videos of all the weirdos flexing their government jobs.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

That would have been declaring war, not on an ex-President that everyone in DC agrees is a greater danger to America than the PRC or fentanyl

what are you talking about, the creatures in DC love both those things

 

[The handsome tard]

It all reeks of desperation to boycott his presidential campaign before it has even a chance to begin. Im surprised the FBI didnt pull the "opps? *drops drugs* there is the evidence!" tactic (they arent subtle when they are doing it).

It only shows how the democrats know that 1) Biden's second run is doomed because even people that voted for him wont fall for it again, 2) there is NO other major candidate that they can use, at least that isnt as ancient as Biden and 3) They know if Trump comes back, he will do so with a vegeance and they all have a target on their heads, that goes double for the RINOs.

So they are trying to remove him from the scene before he can even start.

 

[Gar For Archer]

And the Republicans are just as stupid for not being able to make bank in elections on how lunatic infested the democrats have become.

The problem is the real lunatics are running in districts that Republicans have no hope of ever winning, while those actually in serious competition with Republicans at least pretend to be moderates.

Spontaneously emergent revolts only happen in libertarian children's stories.

You say that, but China just had its citizens spontaneously decide to stop paying about $300 billion dollar’s worth of mortgages on illusory property investments. Once things get bad enough that the people as a whole lose all hope for the future, revolt will be the only option.

 

[TurdMcdermit]

i like how the press secretary refused to answer any questions about the raid that they organized on trumps house