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Its early August with 90 odd days till the mid-term election.
I believe our Justice Department has 99,000 ways to go after TFG. Picking the theft of government docs after they gave him a true mulligan to return is brilliant. Anyone who has had access to confidential information knows you dont take it home. This includes everyone in law enforcement, the government and the military. It the first thing they tell you about classified information. To me this is like getting Al Capone on taxes. He did it and good enough to contain the threat.
The J6 committee is getting a digital forensics expert to retrieve text messages various inside agencies had deleted, Alex Jones phone is in their hands. Additionally, the White House attorney (Pat C) is in front of a Federal Grand Jury.
The reaction to Dobbs over turning Row was the drubbing in Kansas.
All the Republicans have hitched their wagons to Trump 2 years after he got beat badly by Joe Biden in 2020. All their eggs are in the Trump basket. They are locked in for the election. Super stable genius work indeed.
Then there is all the good stuff the Democrats are doing to counter this.
GOTV!
Johnny2X2X
(18,742 posts)The timing actually is bad for Dems, Biden and the Dems just gave the country the best few weeks it's had in several years and this knocks that off the headlines.
This was done with 0 regard to political impact, as it should have been. But I do think the justice department dotted their Is and crossed their Ts over and over and over on this, this was not just any warrant.
All that being said, people pretending this helps Trump politically in any way are delusional. It doesn't, all it does is show how extreme his supporters are both in the public and in politics. It's downright disturbing for people to hear their leaders talk about "destroying the FBI." Just shows how crazy the Republican Party has gotten. People still trust the FBI.
I think an indictment will come before the end of the month. And the evidence detailed in it will throw water on the nutty conspiracy theories you're seeing on FOX News right now.
MyMission
(1,845 posts)I just read about it on CNN. Looks like there was a window of time about to close until after the election.
Honig told CNN's Erin Burnett on "OutFront" that the timing of the search held with the longstanding department rule not to execute politically sensitive moves within 90 days of an election.
"Today is just about 90 days out exactly from the midterms, I think maybe 91 or 92 days out. That policy, that may be a reason why they did it today because they want to stay clear of that if they're interpreting that as a 90 day rule," he said.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/08/politics/mar-a-lago-search-warrant-fbi-donald-trump/index.html
Bayard
(21,802 posts)And giving us trump.
You beat me to it with your response.