Dystopian nightmare! FBI obtains warrant, conducts search!

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Dystopian nightmare! FBI obtains warrant, conducts search!
By Alexandra Petri

This is the kind of thing that could only happen in countries run by “tin-pot dictators” conservatives fumed on Twitter upon seeing that the FBI had searched former president Donald Trump’s Florida home. “If this is what they’re able to do to the former president of the United States, think about what they could do to you,” Lara Trump warned on Fox News.

It’s true! If this is what investigators will do to the former president of the United States — follow all the steps to obtain a warrant from a judge to search his home for documents that they (and the judge) believed probable cause suggested were there, then leave without arresting anybody — imagine what they will do to you! You might also have to deal with a search warrant from a judge! You, too, might receive due process when suspected of committing a crime!

Imagine! The next time it appears that you have run afoul of the Presidential Records Act by taking classified documents home, the FBI will obtain a warrant from a judge to come to your combined residence and country club to search your safe — with cooperation from the Secret Service! There are millions of Americans out there right now reasonably saying to themselves, “All this time I have been storing classified materials pertaining to the office of the president, some too classified even to be described (which sounds like a koan), as I thought was my right as an average citizen. And now, I see what kind of hell scape I am living in! One where the former president is subject to laws, just as I, an average citizen, am subject to laws!”...

“No former president is safe,” tweeted Matt Gaetz, (R-Fla.) Too true! Too true! John Adams sitting there on his trove of documents. Benjamin Harrison, inciting all those insurrections. William Henry Harrison, being there! Any one of us could become a former president, if we play our cards wrong, and we must first ask ourselves: If the most powerful are not above the law, who can be? Is anyone? Shouldn’t someone be?

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

[gab13by13]

1. Today, Nicolle Wallace had the perfect response to these Magats,

if you want to hang your hat on Donald Trump, Bring It On.

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2. I wouldn't even have been able

to leave my office that day and make it to my home to have the search warrant served! Had I done that in my old job! Old TFG ought to be grateful he wasn't rousted from his bed in jammies and frog marched out to the front porch, if you asked me.

And I agree with all who said they should have cut the deficit by charging for PPV to stream it live!!!!

[Botany]

3. "FBI obtains warrant, conducts search"

Deep state horror.

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4. "This is the kind of thing that could only happen in countries run by "tin-pot dictators.."

Not quite. We are blessed that it can happen here. I've always hesitated in the "exceptional" label often extolled by others about our nation, but this is an example of the nation living up to the label.

Tin-pot dictators usually end up with a bullet in the head from either an assassin or from a coup leader's firing squad. Here there's a rule of law, a process. The DOJ presents evidence to a judge that crimes were probably committed. He issues a warrant and the residence is searched.

Rule of law.

The process proceeds on to a possible indictment and trial.