Trump, Republicans Really, Really Upset
As FBI Raids Mar-a-Lago
Aug 10
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Excuse me, I have to vomit. There I feel better now. But the question of the ages is “which side are you on?”
So the FBI raided trump’s castle and took away boxes of papers, imagine that, boxes of papers. But these were no run of the mill papers, they were suspected of being top secret, classified papers that trump’s cronies secreted away from the White House in his final days in office to his castle in West Palm Beach. Of course, the clown prince was self-righteously shocked at how the FBI had the audacity to swoop in without at least telling the clown first but I think he probably knew something would happen as it’s been seven months since headlines screamed, “Trump reportedly packed White House boxes in secret, took ‘top secret’ documents to Mar-a-Lago.”
On Monday, F.B.I. agents searched the trump castle to determine if classified documents were being stored in the former president’s private club and residence rather than following the law and dispatching the documents to the National Archives at the end of his term. If true, trump could be in violation of the Presidential Records Act, the 1978 law enacted after Watergate to prevent presidents from destroying or refusing to share their documents and records once they leave office.
Why didn’t trump turn over the boxes before the FBI had to act? I sense the answer is rhetorical as trump was so brazen as to have routinely tore up documents that should have been saved and flushing the remnants down White House toilets.
“My beautiful home, Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of F.B.I. agents,” the former wannabe dictator whined. In classic trump fashion, he used such explosive words that had no basis in reality. There was no siege, there was a raid by FBI agents, doing what FBI agents are supposed to do.
This coming from a megalomaniac who boasted during his 2016 run for the presidency, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose voters.” He may well have been right.
One thing about trump, he has the scruples of an old athletic supporter while he invented the words brazen and greed. Soon after the evil FBI raid, trump texted his supporters, with a link to his donation page, “The Radical Left is corrupt. Return the power to the people! Will you fight with me? Donate.”
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R- Calif., the House minority leader, is one of trump’s longest running and most unconscionable stooges, so his comments were hardly surprising when he accused the Justice Department of reaching “an intolerable state of weaponized politicization.” I assume McCarthy means that neither he nor his ruler would tolerate anyone enforcing the law when trump is involved.
“I’ve seen enough,” McCarthy said, with the utmost of hypocrisy. I suspect you will be seeing much more very soon.
How dare trump continue this satanic masquerade as he labors to drag the country into the deep, dank hole where he slithers.
I have reached the point beyond exasperation, beyond besetment and beyond any adjective that could fully reflect how I feel. But I will try. Everything that trump gets near turns to rancid poop, he doesn’t even have to touch it, just get near it. When he besmirches the constitution of the United States, I have to vomit. Oh sorry I already vomited once so here goes number two. And he has the unmitigated gall to continue that he is the tragic, Shakespearean victim of the “greatest Witch Hunt.” Here comes upchuck number three.
So trump’s lackeys, of which there are countless many in Congress, responded to the FBI search not with concern over what may be contained in the documents. No, the bootlickers followed their leader and attacked law enforcement officials.
Here’s a smattering of the supreme nerve of some of our fine, elected officials.
McCarthy warned that if the Republicans take back the Congress in the fall elections that they would stop at nothing to attack Attorney General Merrick Garland, warning him to “preserve your documents and clear your calendar.” If the Republicans win the majority in Congress and if they pursue an investigation of the attorney general, they will probably walk away with the same results when Republicans investigated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her alleged role in the 2012 terrorist attacks against the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya. Those results were zilch, Clinton did nothing wrong.
Moving on to that weather vane of hypocrisy, wokeness and mirth, GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida called the raid “another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents.” By this, I assume DeSantis means that enforcement of federal laws is nothing more than a weapon of the government, which it is.
Never one to pass by baseless exaggeration, DeSantis drew a connection between the FBI raid and a recent bill to fund thousands of new IRS agents, health care expansion and fight climate change. These are just subterfuge to mask the government’s battle against all that is trump and Republican. Whatever.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. and the House Judiciary Committee’s Republicans, led by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, issued a joint statement, “Doesn’t the FBI have better things to do than harass the former PRESIDENT?” Since when is it harassment to pursue a criminal investigation into anyone, including a president, because nobody is above the law. By better things, do they mean harassing the son of a current president.
Sentiment of McCarthy and DeSantis is wimpy compared with the warnings issued by Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., who said the country ain’t seen nothing yet and that if Democrats retain power they’ll legalize abortions up to 52 weeks, will pack the courts, give D.C. statehood and the Republicans will never win again. Scott may not know that human pregnancies last 40 weeks. BTW, the scalawag FBI also seized Scott’s cell phone records today, no doubt in another effort to destroy the opposition.
McCarthy, DeSantis and the rest, have you no shame? Was it really all that long ago when you and other Republicans mounted a vicious attack against Hillary Clinton because she used a private email server during the 2016 presidential campaign. She was never charged with a crime but “Lock her up” became the mantra, music to the ears of trump and all of his sycophants and Kool Aid drinkers. Would you lock up trump for far worse? I doubt it.
Trump has long attempted to discredit and pummel the FBI, from the report of Russian influence to help trump with the 2016 presidential race; to trump’s impeachment for attempting to strong arm Ukraine into providing dirt on Biden’s son, Hunter; to the numerous state and federal investigations into trump and his kingdom.
Trump’s strategy has worked as his complete disregard for the law continues to pollute the soul of Republican politics. Kari Lake, who won the GOP nomination for governor of Arizona, has long backed trump’s unfounded claims that widespread voter fraud cost him the 2020 presidential election. In true absurdist fashion, last week Lake claimed fraud during the recent primary, even though she won.
And there’s Michigan’s Matthew DePerno , a Republican backer of trump’s big lie who allegedly was involved in a scheme to undermine the 2020 election, in favor of trump. DePerno is expected to clinch the GOP nomination for state attorney general
For more, there’s the words from Ryan Kelley, a Republican who has been charged with crimes related to the Jan.6, 2021, riot by trump supporters and who lost his bid for the GOP nod for governor in Michigan.
“As I travel around the state, I’m an insurrectionist to some people,” Kelley said. “You know, to other people, it’s like, ‘That’s why I’m voting for you. Because you walk the walk and you were out there fighting for us.’”
It gets worse, much worse.
Anthony Sabatini, a member of the Florida State House of Representatives, who is running for congress, said the state has to “sever all ties with DOJ (Department of Justice) immediately. Any FBI agent conducting law enforcement functions outside the purview of our State should be arrested upon sight.”
The House Republican caucus asked Americans to just use their imagination in this dire moment of legitimate FBI actions.
“If they can do it to a former President, imagine what they can do to you,” was posted on the Twitter account for the House Republican caucus. I suppose this is a warning that the FBI may soon seize all of your top secret documents.
Of course, Fox News was busy stirring the pot of violence as the cash registers keep clicking away. Host Jesse Watters said it was “insane” to search trump’s property and that FBI Director Christopher A. Wray should be booted out for being “corrupt.”
Not to be outdone, dire comments flowed from Joel B. Pollak, a senior editor at the right-wing outlet Breitbart News, once led by Steve Bannon, the unshaven conspiracist who was convicted recently of refusing a Justice Department subpoena.
“There is suddenly a very real risk of violent political instability in this country for the first time in more than 150 years,” Pollak tweeted.
I suppose Pollak agreed with Republicans that the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was not “violent political instability” but merely Americans expressing their political views.
Does anybody remember how trump once insisted that innocent people don’t need to plead the fifth amendment against self-incrimination? Well, that was then and now, trump has pleaded the fifth for all questions brought last week by lawyers with the office of N.J. Attorney General Letitia James
“I once asked, ‘If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?’ Now I know the answer to that question,” trump posted on his website on Wednesday. “When your family, your company, and all the people in your orbit have become the targets of an unfounded, politically motivated Witch Hunt supported by lawyers, prosecutors, and the Fake News Media, you have no choice.”
James’s office is investigating whether the former president misled investors and tax authorities by inflating the property value of his Trump Organization to get investments and subsequently deflating them to get tax and loan benefits.
The Trump family fought the New York attorney general’s subpoenas and efforts to obtain related documents for months before a judge and appellate court forced their appearance.