The opinion of a former Democratic Presidential candidate

[brooklynite]

Link to tweet

[mcar]

1. Yang is an idiot

[skylucy]

19. +100

[HelpImSurrounded]

37. +1000

[Scrivener7]

2. What a tool that guy is.

[2naSalit]

9. Beat me to it!

And, no shit!

He's toast... burnt, soggy toast in water.

C-ya, Andrew!

[underpants]

15. 😀

[2naSalit]

39. LOL

[Bettie]

3. He is showing who he really is

and what his "third party" stand for.

And, as we suspected, both answers are MAGAt culture.

[Ocelot II]

4. Geez, Andrew, stfu.

[Greybnk48]

5. Duh... n/t

[FSogol]

6. The opinion of a "both sides" moron.

Yang is a clown.

[randr]

7. Speaks volumes about Yang

He has no respect for rule of law

[Ritabert]

8. Yang desperately looking for attention

[2naSalit]

12. In all the wrong ways. ...nt

[walkingman]

10. IT only seems political for those that don't believe we are a nation of laws...hopefully ☮

[dalton99a]

11. Useful idiot.

[BlueGreenLady]

13. Wondering if

Yang works for Putin.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

14. Is the second tweet there ... actually true?

If it *IS* I don't have a huge problem with what the guy said.

It's fairly accurate if that part about local offices and judges is factually correct.

[W_HAMILTON]

24. Yang is a dumbass.

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Here is more about the process: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/08/us/politics/federal-search-warrant.html

EDIT: Here are some relevant excerpts since another poster said it was behind a paywall:

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Neither the Justice Department nor the F.B.I. has the authority to act unilaterally. A federal judge or magistrate must approve of the request, and jurists often demand highly specific limitations on the search to protect a person’s Fourth Amendment rights against unlawful search and seizure before granting a warrant.

Law enforcement agencies must meet certain legal benchmarks, litigated over decades, before a judge can sign off.

First, they must prove “probable cause,” evidence that the search is likely to find evidence of illegality; if the warrant is found to lack such proof, the search is considered unlawful under a 2004 precedent.

It's sad that such an ignorant fool was even allowed to run in our primaries.

[brush]

33. There's a paywall.

[W_HAMILTON]

35. I edited my post to add the relevant excerpt.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

29. According to the "Garland will never prosecute Trump" crowd

There's that Barr memo that requires Garland to sign off on investigations. So, no, it wasn't low level.

[PJMcK]

16. Yang has now demonstrated a fundamental fact

He has no idea how the Federal Government works.

It is beyond ignorant to think that the search warrant was not vetted by the Attorney General.

Yang is an idiot.

[Johnny2X2X]

17. This raid will not win Trump even 1 single more vote

HIs cult reacted predictably, but moderate Republicans aren't in the cult and he needs them to be a political threat. This cost him any shot at a lot of moderates.

[Baggies]

18. I can't argue against that

It will appear that way to many people. Doesn’t matter if it was or not.

[Claustrum]

20. So glad I never saw his appeal.

UBI is just an unrealistic dream.

[brush]

34. He was a one-trick-pony. After that, he had nothing else to say...

so no reason to vote for him.

[W_HAMILTON]

21. Fuck that fool.

"It seems like..."

Yang, STFU up and just go back and work a real job already.

[Raven123]

22. "it seems" equals "I have no clue".

Doesn’t know that the judge must be from the jurisdiction that includes the place of search.
Doesn’t know that the DOJ and FBI generally don’t discuss or limit discussions during investigations publicly to avoid prejudicing their case
Doesn’t know that Garland is apolitical.


Clearly Yang has been living in his own world.

[Coventina]

23. STFU. Your opinion means nothing. n/t

[Hortensis]

25. "Seems like," huh? The Forward Party, formed at the end of July,

should denounce scoundrels spouting the same-old "you're stupid enough for us" deceits if they want to avoid joining the debris at the third-party recycling site. Of course with Yang as one of the founders, that's not going to happen.

[CentralMass]

26. Well that's nice Andrew.

[Phoenix61]

27. I didn't realize he was so well connected that he had access to a copy

of the warrant. IMHO, he doubt he is. Just spewing random thoughts across the twitterverse.

[JohnSJ]

28. Go away Yang. You have conned enough people

[brush]

30. Poor, sore loser Yang. He's so bitter toward Dems about losing...

two elections he's now siding with trump. And starting a third party.

Who is this guy?

[childfreebychoice]

31. A thiel, musk knockoff. Nt

[Hav]

36. What an idiot

But he's also playing to his gullible base. I thought he was likable during the primaries but I remember there were polls back then that around half of his supporters would vote for Trump if he didn't win the Dem nomination.
This anti-establishment populist mindset that we've seen since 2016 from both sides is so stupid and boring.

[TheBeam19]

38. A "local judge" signed the warrant? Sure, Andrew.

Sure, it may have been a federal magistrate located in South Florida, but Yang chose the word “local” to downplay the seriousness and legitimacy of the warrant, making it sound like some Palm Beach traffic court judge signed it.

[Hekate]

40. Uh, no. I think Yang is way off base here.

[myohmy2]

41. no Yang...

...this being a legal criminal pursuit takes it OUT of the political arena...

...Justice will take this wherever the law-breaking evidence leads them...

...if trump and the pukes don't want to be scrutinized for illegal behavior they should stop breaking the law...

...the FBI investigating and searching a former president's home is unprecedented...

...but a president trying to thwart the Constitution by overturning the results of a presidential election and then trying to stop the peaceful transition of presidential power is even MORE unprecedented...

...hey pukes, if you can't do the time, don't do the crime...