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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFBI SEIZES the phone of Rep. Scott Perry (R) Pa.
The 'Trump always wins' crowd having a bad day today.
Link to tweet
spanone
(135,844 posts)OH YEA
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,355 posts)Sky Jewels
(7,113 posts)and flush em. 🙄
IronLionZion
(45,457 posts)Sky Jewels
(7,113 posts)orthoclad
(2,910 posts)the "It fell into the toilet" excuse? Oops, ruined!
Beetwasher.
(2,977 posts)Game time!!
MyOwnPeace
(16,928 posts)The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)PortTack
(32,778 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Ohio Joe
(21,758 posts)Im enjoying it
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)Focus!
Please Fight to Save Our Democracy💙 in 2022 & 2024!
Jilly_in_VA
(9,983 posts)I can feel him sweating all the way from here!
Torchlight
(3,341 posts)Not that I believe nothing will/would/could happen, but this week has been kinda like the first touch of spring thaw after a long winter for me.
ananda
(28,866 posts)...
Goonch
(3,608 posts)sheshe2
(83,791 posts)It is no wonder the GOP heads have been imploding today.
Nevilledog
(51,122 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,504 posts)durablend
(7,460 posts)blogslug
(38,002 posts)Link to tweet
Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins
Republican Rep. Scott Perry tells Fox the FBI took his phone at the airport today.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-ally-rep-scott-perry-says-fbi-seized-cell-phone-one-day-after-mar-a-lago-raid
BumRushDaShow
(129,097 posts)the story has been spreading on RW media and I'm aiming for a regular MSM source to do it - even if "breaking". CNN needs to put something out there.
Lasher
(27,597 posts)Nothing in the real world about it so far.
BumRushDaShow
(129,097 posts)Didn't want any link to Faux Snooze or the Smashington Times, StoogeMax or the other RW drivel sources that are exploding with it (probably to fundraise with it).
Lasher
(27,597 posts)Good sleuthing.
BumRushDaShow
(129,097 posts)It has been a slog to find a source not dripping with RW slime.
Am guessing the MSM weren't getting any call backs when attempting to contact him for verification. Since he is headng up the teabagger barrel of monkeys in the House, he thinks he is BMOC.
Lasher
(27,597 posts)I wonder if we will have to go into Defcon Mode or whatever it is called.
BumRushDaShow
(129,097 posts)Whatever servers they use nowadays, we haven't had to do that in years!
crickets
(25,981 posts)No paywall link - https://archive.ph/Kj0Dj
BumRushDaShow
(129,097 posts)Don't know if it's my ad blockers or what but haven't been getting a paywall block from the Independent (although it might be one of those "limited" views things and I haven't hit the max). I don't use them as a source much unless I can't find it anywhere else and they have the story.
crickets
(25,981 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,097 posts)Yeah I usually clear cookies for sites that do that and sometimes they have multiple URLs leaving cookies too.
ancianita
(36,095 posts)Perry's lawyer is also on Trump's legal team. His texts were to the DOJ folks in the ramp up to Jan 6 and he ignored Jan 6 Committee subpoenas.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/rep-scott-perry-says-fbi-agents-seized-his-cellphone/
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/09/fbi-seize-gop-scott-perrys-phone-00050737
BumRushDaShow
(129,097 posts)It took them over an hour to do it though.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/rep-scott-perry-top-trump-ally-says-fbi-agents-seized-phone-rcna42322
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/09/us/scott-perry-cellphone-fbi.html
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/09/politics/scott-perry-fbi-seize-cellphone/index.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scott-perry-phone-seized-fbi-donald-trump-today-2022-08-09/
and on and on...
ancianita
(36,095 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)& 12 boxes taken.
Let's
BumRushDaShow
(129,097 posts)Now that other sources are reporting, I saw a NBC News one that mentioned that Perry's issue may be associated with DOJ's OIG investigation where an attempt was made to make a DOJ environmental Asst. AG Jeff Clark (who had no criminal prosecutioni experience), the Acting AG in order to bolster the case of a fraudulent election (since obviously Barr wasn't going to do it and Barr left).
Perry, a Pennsylvania lawmaker who's chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, was subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 committee earlier this year.
Aug. 9, 2022, 8:04 PM EDT
By Dareh Gregorian and Kyle Stewart
(snip)
Perry is not the only Trump ally to have his phone seized by federal agents. Lawyer John Eastman had his phone seized in June on the same day authorities executed a search warrant at Clark's Virginia home.
Both of those warrants appeared to stem from an investigation DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz announced in January 2021, three days after The New York Times first reported the extent to which Clark sought to help Trump use the Justice Department to push his bogus claims of election fraud. The inspector generals website says the office is examining the role and activity of DOJ and its components in preparing for and responding to the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/rep-scott-perry-top-trump-ally-says-fbi-agents-seized-phone-rcna42322
crickets
(25,981 posts)crickets
(25,981 posts)Of course no one was going to give you enough warning to curate the contents of your phone, silly. 🙄
If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about, etc...
Coventina
(27,121 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,391 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,097 posts)They also need to haul in the entire GOP legislative membership of PA!
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)The past 24 hours has been payback for "Fitzmas" and all the other times we had our hopes dashed against the rocks.
I'm thoroughly enjoying this. 😉
iemanja
(53,035 posts)Bev54
(10,053 posts)sweating their asses off, and it will have nothing to do with the weather.
demmiblue
(36,865 posts)Rep. Scott Perry has refused to testify here, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), vice chair of the select committee, said as she opened its case to the American public. As you will see, Representative Perry contacted the White House in the weeks after Jan. 6 to seek a presidential pardon. Multiple other Republican congressmen also sought presidential pardons for their roles in attempting to overturn the 2020 election
The new details surfaced during the panels first public hearing, as the bipartisan committee launched the unveiling of its findings of a yearlong investigation into the insurrection. Its the first of a string of hearings scheduled in the coming weeks that are set to paint a picture of a carefully planned and orchestrated attack on American democracy.
Perry was a major actor in then-President Donald Trumps attempt to overturn the election, connecting Trump with Jeffrey Clark, an official in the Department of Justice who supported Trumps efforts, according to testimony and documents obtained by the committee.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/09/cheney-scott-perry-jan-6-hearing-00038724
Hekate
(90,714 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,743 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,182 posts)badhair77
(4,218 posts)Hes an arrogant piece of work. There are photos of him in the bunker during Jan 6 and hes not concerned at all. No wonder he was calm and smiling, he helped organize it.
haele
(12,660 posts)Washington Times, and now Faux News are covering it, because he's telling them about it before he gets indicted or supoeaned about something.
Trying to influence a potential jury pool before the fact, eh?
Haele
Comfortably_Numb
(3,809 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)Can't wait to see who's next.
Comfortably_Numb
(3,809 posts)Tetrachloride
(7,847 posts)Denouncing the politician of Scott Perry or support.
i know a Scott Perry. I bet hes feeling uncomfortable
orangecrush
(19,572 posts)Botany
(70,516 posts)crickets
(25,981 posts)Link to tweet
What do Scott Perry and trump's trouble with the national archives have in common? MARK MEADOWS. Meadows was a NARA rep for donald, and he was seen incinerating documents after meeting with Perry.
6:15 PM · Aug 9, 2022
Botany
(70,516 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Can't recall what the issue was...
crickets
(25,981 posts)YoshidaYui
(41,832 posts)YAY
Mysterian
(4,588 posts)Not criminal thuggery and mob rule.
The attempted coup was a crime committed against all Americans.
meadowlander
(4,399 posts)Grins
(7,218 posts)
and destroy any backups the day the January 6 Committee was formed? Is he that stupid?
Not sure this is the news we think.
durablend
(7,460 posts)You really want an answer to that?
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Turned up the heat. Let them all sweat.
TeamProg
(6,143 posts)dchill
(38,505 posts)...are still candidates for office come November. And not just from a moral or ethical standpoint, either. We're talking about giving real power to real traitors. I don't want to hear about how these things take time! A year and a half has already gone by while GOP criminals keep laying their treasonous plans. They're not waiting.
Joinfortmill
(14,432 posts)Maraya1969
(22,483 posts)This is from CNN -
"On five occasions, according to text messages reviewed by CNN, Perry texted Meadows to request the conversation move to the encrypted app or to alert Meadows to a message he sent there.
Signal does not collect or save user data, making it more difficult to provide that information to outside entities, including law enforcement and congressional investigators, even under subpoena."
I would love it if there was a way to get the actual texts from these encryptions. He used Signal.
Edit: From Google - A recently discovered FBI training document shows that US law enforcement can gain limited access to the content of encrypted messages from secure messaging services like iMessage, Line, and WhatsApp, but not to messages sent via Signal, Telegram, Threema, Viber, WeChat, or Wickr.
RexLipton
(69 posts)C Moon
(12,213 posts)Never mind, I thought it said Rick Perry.
RANDYWILDMAN
(2,672 posts)and get caught, don't act all surprised
lindysalsagal
(20,692 posts)And I certainly hope speaker P will call for impeachment. He can't be trusted.
slumcamper
(1,606 posts)And we are!
More please!