Some of the reactions on social media to last night's search of Mar-A-Lago attempt to be educational. Most were very, very serious, as they recognize the dangerous times we live in:
Trump personally picked the current FBI director pic.twitter.com/EAkCLchRp4
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 8, 2022
.@FrankFigliuzzi1: Here's what the FBI needed to have on Trump to obtain a search warrant to raid Mar-a-Lago. https://t.co/LvCHFZw6w9
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 9, 2022
Trump failed to return classified docs requested by the National Archives. A federal judge issued a search warrant for probable cause of a crime. This is not some rando move by the FBI so you shitforbrains Republicans calling for “defunding the FBI”for once try to be less stupid https://t.co/L9qVLqmwsT
— Michael Steele (@MichaelSteele) August 9, 2022
Trump thought the US government was “his” as president. He thought the military was his. DOJ was his personal law firm. The military was his. The Secret Service. Air Force One. And classified documents. Those things belong to us. We the people. His arrogance will be his downfall.
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) August 9, 2022
I’m sure in coming days reasonable Republicans are going to remind their supporters that they ran an entire Presidential election on the gravity of mishandling official documents/comm and that minimizing what Trump has done would be, um, epic bullshit. https://t.co/xrMVJTDIo1
— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) August 9, 2022
If Trump is charged and convicted, his supporters like those in terrorist groups will try to avenge their leader. It's time to treat MAGA as the terrorist threat that it is.
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) August 9, 2022
NBC News confirms: The FBI search of Trump's home in Florida is tied to classified material that belongs to the National Archives. @NBCNews
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 9, 2022
We talked minutes after the search was public. Later reporting suggests it was because of missing classified documents. They must be important to lead to a judge approving the search warrant and despite claims Trump was cooperating with Archives, he must not have been. https://t.co/b1dXOhyhmQ
— Jill Wine-Banks (@JillWineBanks) August 9, 2022
Some Likely Exacerbating Factors that Would Contribute to a Trump Searchhttps://t.co/BBgTfaOyom
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) August 9, 2022
The news from pre-raid yesterday that Trump is sharing lawyers with Bannon and Navarro and the timing of the raid raises a question about why DOJ didn't, as they did with Navarro, simply sue to get the classified documents Trump stole back. https://t.co/EANduAypU2
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) August 9, 2022
The corporate media has countless articles this AM on how Trump supporters rallied outside Mar a Lago. How many? Every article says the same though when read them: "Dozens of people." That's it. https://t.co/QaUFx911Ne
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) August 9, 2022
It's shit like this that makes me wonder whether Trump didn't steal classified documents about plans for fascism. pic.twitter.com/3ooLi6A1kh
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) August 9, 2022
When you're attacking FBI agents because you're under criminal investigation, you're losing https://t.co/SIoAxatCjp
— Sarah Huckabee Sanders (@SarahHuckabee) November 3, 2016
You know Trump thought that anything in a safe would be off-limits in a search, like calling “Base!” while playing tag.
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) August 9, 2022
A reminder that Donny Trump, and most of the Trumpsters wailing now, demanded that Jim Comey be prosecuted for bringing classified documents home (and then, unlike Trump, returning them). https://t.co/Ohp0HLM0Xu
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) August 9, 2022
The coverage of GOP reaction to the Trump raid is akin to running stories saying “Bank robbers across America outraged as FBI foils another big heist!” Only it’s even worse because it buys into Trumpist assertion that their pro-crime stance is a legitimate political position.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) August 9, 2022
“This may be the very first time in his life that he’s not protected. He’s not protected by the office anymore. He’s not protected by the banks anymore. He’s not protected by his father anymore.”
Mary Trump re Donald Trump
8 August 2022— Dr. Jack Brown (@DrGJackBrown) August 9, 2022
Republicans want average Americans to worry that if they can do it to Trump the Feds can just as easily come and bust into your private golf club resort, negotiate with your secret service agents, to remove top secret classified documents from your giant safe. Very relatable.
— Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger) August 9, 2022
The FBI must be legally and formally dissolved.
What happened to President Trump is positively stunning and a mark of unchecked government power.
I no longer recognize the country I live in. Left or right, we must all come together to fight this evil.— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) August 9, 2022
Republicans are now inventing past conflicts between Garland and Trump that never happened to explain the FBI raid because they live in a fact-proof fantasyland https://t.co/ggBzIMZ8gJ
— Aaron Fritschner (@Fritschner) August 9, 2022
On behalf of defense lawyers everywhere I really appreciate the clarity with which the GOP is expressing that the role of law enforcement is only to police the powerless and that if it polices them it is so illegitimate it should be dissolved.
— DarkTimesHat (@Popehat) August 9, 2022
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— Kurt Bardella (@kurtbardella) August 8, 2022
