That speculation came in part amid widening knowledge about how the FBI might have established probable cause that there was a crime being committed at Mar-a-Lago using new or recent information – to prevent the probable cause from going “stale” – through a confidential informant. [More]
Tag: Donald Trump
Straight from the Sources’ Mouths?
DEVELOPING: Sources say the FBI agents and officials who were involved in the raid on former President Trump’s home work in the same CounterIntelligence Division of the FBI that investigated Trump in the Russiagate hoax and are actively under criminal investigation by Special Counsel John Durham for potentially abusing their power investigating Trump in the Russian fraud and therefore have a potential conflict of interest and should have been RECUSED from participating in this supposed “espionage” investigation at Mar-a-Lago. [More]
“Sources”?
Then again, sometimes that’s all you can go with at the start of an exposé.
I tried to find more on this before posting to see what kind of evidence Paul Sperry has, but I don’t see anything on his landing page yet and Twitter has seen fit to “suspend” his account.
Unlike what they do with jihadists who make online threats.
[Via Keith B]
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Tangentially-Related UPDATE
It’s foot-dragging reminiscent of the feds’ hunt for Whitey Bulger, the serial-killing brother of the most powerful Democrat politician in the state. [More]
Hey, go with what you know works…
[Via Michael G]
Mar-a-Lago Search Warrant
Playing for the Cameras?
“Mark my words here: There will be a moment when President Trump is giving one of his big speeches somewhere and the FBI will storm the stage,” Starnes said. “They will arrest the president on national television and drag him away. That’s how all of this will end up.” [More]
Be funny if someone forgets to order the Secret Service detail to stand down…
[Via bondmen]
First Time I’m Hearing of This…
Doing the Job Truthful Americans Won’t Do
A careful review of the official transcripts of its eight long hearings shows the committee repeatedly made connections that weren’t there, took events and quotes out of context, exaggerated the violence of the Capitol rioters, and omitted key exculpatory evidence otherwise absolving former President Donald Trump of guilt. While in some cases, it lied by omission, in others, it lied outright. It also made a number of unsubstantiated charges based on the secondhand accounts—hearsay testimony—of a young witness with serious credibility problems. [More]
So who are you going to heed to form an opinion on Liz Cheney? These guys or Kevin Costner?
[Via bondmen]
Speaking of ‘Deplorable and Dangerous’
FBI Director Wray pushes back on threats following unprecedented raid on Trump [More]
Channeling his inner Hillary, is he?
Why not? He’d channeled his inner Blumenthal before he was even confirmed.
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Be very suspicious of anything you hear in the media attributable to anonymous sources. The supposed leaks from unidentified persons supposedly with knowledge are either FBI/DOJ whispering in the ear of reporter-scribes which may or may not reflect reality, or people who don’t have actual knowledge, or sources who exist only in the imagination of the reporters. It’s all an unreliable web of deception. [More]
The best gaslighting uses coordinated narrative talking points.
[Via Michael G]
Eric Trump tells DailyMail.com what REALLY happened in FBI raid: President’s son says 30 agents REFUSED to hand over warrant… [More]
At that point you notify them on camera you are calling the sheriff.
[Via bondmen]
The only way to fight back is to make the kinds of people who’ve weaponized and undermined the American state suffer for their actions. They’ve arrested their enemies, revived obscure rules as pretexts for partisan attacks, and raided their opponents’ homes, and they won’t be sorry until they’ve felt the same pain. [More]
Or worse.
[Via Michael G]
♫ They Call Him Flipper ♫
Trumpworld is abuzz with speculation about which close aide or aides has “flipped” and provided additional sensitive information to the FBI about what former President Trump was keeping at Mar-a-Lago, sources tell Axios. [More]
That was my very first thought.
What’s in a Name?
Leftists freak out over one word concerning FBI at Trump’s home … It’s a “search,” not a “raid.” [More]
Hence the JBT with the machinegun.
Note how all the major players forego “home” in favor of “compound”:
On Second Thought
They are looking for an excuse to indict him…..and keep him under indictment. While indicted he won’t be able to run for office. If they can get him behind bars that’s just a bonus. It’s a virtual certainty they will have “found” i.e planted evidence during this bullshit raid. The American Gestapo nee FBI will do whatever their masters in the American Communist Party tell them to do. [More]
Yeah, that was my fourth thought after I called it a day. Stealing 2020 wasn’t enough– after seeing his CPAC straw poll results and knowing people will be paying attention next time, stealing 2024 calls for pulling out all the stops. If this fails, some may be deranged enough to want that assassination Bernard Kerik is publicly speculating on, and all I can say to that is if they thought Archduke Ferdinand was a catalyst for something bigger…
What I can’t tell at this point is if this is a long-planned step or if it’s a last-ditch desperation “Hail Mary” by the Dems who know their numbers are up for November. Trust in government is at a low and a significant portion of the country believes the last election was stolen– not just a handful of lunatics in buffalo hats egged on by assorted provocateurs. That also explains why the Dems are so adamant about this J6 business– if legitimacy in their rule is exposed for all to see as fraudulent, they’ve seen what happens when truckers in Canada and farmers in the Netherlands are roused. They know that F-15s and nukes aside, they’re hopelessly outnumbered on the ground– which is why they want our guns.
I find it significant that, at this writing, there is nothing in the Google News feed about Mitch McConnell weighing in on this. I sense a combination of feckless Republicans not knowing how real hardball is played and some of the old guard rooting for the Swamp because they believe they’ll have a place in it.
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We’ll probably want to check in on Donald Trump’s Truth Social page from time to time for statements. This seems like a point to hammer on:
The FBI And DOJ Criminalizing Opposition To The Regime Is How The Republic Ends [More]
So is that a bug or a feature?
[Via Michael G]
Every American should be frightened and mad as hell by such unprecedented police state thuggery tactics and there must be a complete dismantling and elimination of the FBI. This is too much for our republic to withstand,” concluded Congressman Gosar. [More]
“FBI delenda est.”
[Via Henry Bowman]
This is a provocation. They are trying to get a reaction that allows a further crackdown. Don’t take the bait. [More]
He’s right about deliberate provocation, but this piece feels incomplete. “Be smart” has to include more than “do nothing.”
[Via Michael G]
Remember when Trump said it would be best for armed government agents to raid you and take your property first and then “go through due process second?” [More]
Helluva thing, being hoist with your own petard.
Oh, Well This Proves EVERYTHING
Well, it turns out there are photos. And here they are, published for the first time. [More]
And this made the ever-sold-out Drudge.
Sr. Bedoya, the floor is yours:
Admissible evidence? We ain’t got no admissible evidence. We don’t need no admissible evidence. I don’t have to show you any stinking admissible evidence!
Is this really all they want us to need? What honest man wouldn’t rebel against that?
Funny. They don’t invite comments.
Return of the Swamp Thing
“In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump. He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him,” the elder Cheney says in the ad, which the younger Cheney started running on Thursday, a week and a half before she faces a Trump-endorsed challenger in the Republican congressional primary Wyoming’s single congressional seat. [More]
And by “Trump” he means anyone who supported the agenda he campaigned on and who still doubts the official J6 narrative.
This is what someone the DSM calls a “staunch gun advocate” with ultra-establishment insider loyalties looks like:
“Whether or not there’s some measure there in terms of limiting the size of the magazine that you can buy to go with a semiautomatic weapon — we’ve had that in place before. Maybe it’s appropriate to re-establish that kind of thing…
Hey Dick: Don’t you have somebody to shoot in the face or something?
(This came across the transom after I submitted my latest AmmoLand piece on Liz Cheney getting longtime gun-grabber Kevin Costner’s support, which may be out later today.)
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Here.
Ain’t That a Kick in the Head?
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If you don’t agree with the official FBI narrative that racist white supremacists are the biggest threat our country faces, you are the problem that needs to be ostracized and eliminated.
That’s on Chris Wray and he’s on Donald Trump.
Preventing at All Costs
Media More Than Happy to Help Republicans Blow ‘Red Wave’
“Losses in Ohio, Georgia, and Pennsylvania would almost certainly doom the GOP’s chances of winning the Senate.” [More]
Democrat media megaphones are ready, willing, and able to amplify and exploit self-inflicted wounds as the Stupid Party continues to demoralize its base.
We Don’t Report, You Decide
Fox News Airs Pence’s Speech, Not Trump’s [More]
So much for “conservative” Faux News.
[Via bondmen]
Weapons of War
Democrats claim to want to ban “weapons of war” but then demonstrate their ignorance by exempting actual weapons of war from their bill. pic.twitter.com/0m9uLwcaJ5
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) July 20, 2022
Ready to apologize yet, Mr. Trump?
[Via Jess]
It’s a Big Club and You Know How the Rest of It Goes
Hunter Biden was longtime friends with a well-connected lawyer and lobbyist with deep roots in DC Republican politics — who praised him as a “rock star” and “beacon of hope.” [More]
He “served on former President Trump’s 2016 transition team”?
Proud of his working relationship with Norman Mineta, is he…?
[Via Michael G]
But No One is Talking About Taking Your Guns…
House Democrats are trying to condition Americans to repeal the Second Amendment. pic.twitter.com/MSOdkKbTBO
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) July 13, 2022
Not that that would invalidate the right to keep and bear arms…
Any bets on Donald Trump ever giving Thomas Massie the public apology he owes him?
I’ll have more to say on the foolish and subversive “Active Shooter Alert” — and the foolish and subversive Republicans who appear to be doing their utmost to break up a “red wave — in an article I’m planning to write soon.
[Via Jess]
And This Surprises Who?
Today, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray demanding that they cease their attempts to illegally obtain information from local sheriffs on Missourians who have concealed carry permits. Missouri law specifically prohibits the sharing of information on concealed carry permit holders to any entity – local, state, federal, or otherwise. [More]
What, the Trump pick who agreed with Richard Blumenthal on guns?
[Via WiscoDave]
