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I imagine Mitch looks at everyone around him in congress and thinks, “You guys realize you get whatever you want and stay here forever if you just shut up and stick to the plan, right?”

 

Like he said previously.

“goofballs.”

 

Well, this does capture the spirit of the thing.

They've been presented an ample amount of evidence. That they continue to double down either shows that we're wrong (not bloody likely) or that they just don't have anyone else on which to leech themselves.

 

When's the next GQP practice of Revel's Bolero?

 

Pence’s response is practically open defiance to Trump compared with most.

 

When does the FBI seize Rupert's phone (and passport)?

 

It's where the money is.
These clowns will be laughed at forever.

 

Who ever is supporting him, and I mean from the higher level, is supporting their own wealth. The others are supporting false "Christian values". And Christian values is in quotes because I don't think they have any values what-so-ever.Sometimes people are just itching for a high.

 

When the FBI breaks into a phone that contains texts through an encrypted messaging app, they need the phone/device, and then three to six months to crack it. That stuff takes time.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/09/trump-fbi-search-mar-a-lago/


Mar-a-Lago search appears focused on whether Trump, aides withheld items


"Officials became suspicious that when Trump gave back items to the National Archives about seven months ago, either the former president or people close to him held on to key records — despite a Justice Department investigation into the handling of 15 boxes of material sent to the former president’s private club and residence in the waning days of his administration.

Over months of discussions on the subject, some officials also came to suspect Trump’s representatives were not truthful at times, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

On Tuesday, a lawyer for Trump said the agents who brought the court-approved warrant to Mar-a-Lago a day earlier took about 12 more boxes after conducting their search.

People familiar with the investigation said that Justice Department and FBI officials traveled to Mar-a-Lago this spring, a meeting first reported by CNN. The officials spoke to Trump’s representatives, inspected the storage space where documents were held, and expressed concern that the former president or people close to him still had items that should be in government custody, these people said.

By that point, officials at the National Archives had been aggressively contacting people in Trump’s orbit to demand the return of documents they believed were covered by the Presidential Records Act, said two people familiar with those inquiries. Like the others, they spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss details of the investigation.

Christina Bobb, a lawyer for Trump, said his lawyers engaged in discussions with the Justice Department this spring over materials held at Mar-a-Lago. At that time, the former president’s legal team searched through two to three dozen boxes in a storage area, hunting for documents that could be considered presidential records, and turned over several items that might meet the definition, she said.

In June, Bobb said, she and Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran met with Jay Bratt, the chief of the counterintelligence and export control section at the Justice Department, along with several investigators. Trump stopped by the meeting as it began to greet the investigators but was not interviewed. The lawyers showed the federal officials the boxes, and Bratt and the others spent some time looking through the material.

Bobb said the Justice Department officials commented that they did not believe the storage unit was properly secured, so Trump officials added a lock to the facility. When FBI agents searched the property Monday, Bobb added, they broke through the lock that had been added to the door.

The FBI removed about a dozen boxes that had been stored in the basement storage area, she said. Bobb did not share the search warrant left by agents but said that it indicated agents were investigating possible violations of laws dealing with the handling of classified material and the Presidential Records Act.

Trump aides also declined to share the search warrant with The Washington Post."