FBI SEIZES the phone of Rep. Scott Perry (R) Pa.

[Kingofalldems]

The 'Trump always wins' crowd having a bad day today.

Link to tweet

[spanone]

1. ...K&R...

OH YEA

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. Call in the EPA; gonna be lots of phones splashing into rivers, lakes and streams.

[Sky Jewels]

20. Also, some will attempt to do "a Trump"

and flush ‘em. 🙄

[IronLionZion]

61. Trump Dump

[Sky Jewels]

72. massive dumps

[orthoclad]

79. Didn't somebody already use

the "It fell into the toilet" excuse? Oops, ruined!

[Beetwasher.]

3. SNOWBALLING!!!!

Game time!!

[MyOwnPeace]

16. 'Snowballing' - HELL! AVALANCHE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[The Magistrate]

4. Damn, Skippy!

[PortTack]

5. Someone posted earlier, feels like Christmas in August...indeed..it just keeps getting better

[SheltieLover]

48. +1,000,000!!!

[Ohio Joe]

6. Things have gotten mighty hot for the magats...

I’m enjoying it

[Stuart G]

8. So Am I..Lots of us are enjoying it

[Cha]

7. Fucking brain dead Traitor.

Focus!
Please Fight to Save Our Democracy💙 in 2022 & 2024!

[Jilly_in_VA]

9. Tee hee!

I can feel him sweating all the way from here!

[Torchlight]

10. Against my better judgement, I'm thinking there may be consequences

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]

53. Guarded optimism. This is a huge step for me too.

...

[Goonch]

11. 👇

[sheshe2]

12. Game on!

It is no wonder the GOP heads have been imploding today.

[Nevilledog]

13. ...

v

[SheltieLover]

62. Lol

[OAITW r.2.0]

14. It's like an organized crime Party,

[durablend]

15. FUCK YES

[blogslug]

17. For verification purposes, via CNN Reporter Kaitlin Collins

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]

31. Thank you because so far

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]

40. Me too.

Nothing in the real world about it so far.

[BumRushDaShow]

42. I found a story in the UK Independent

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142954008

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]

44. Saw that.

Good sleuthing.

[BumRushDaShow]

50. You're welcome

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]

55. DU is on fire!

I wonder if we will have to go into Defcon Mode or whatever it is called.

[BumRushDaShow]

56. LOL

Whatever servers they use nowadays, we haven't had to do that in years!

[crickets]

45. Thanks for the additional article, BRDS.

No paywall link - https://archive.ph/Kj0Dj

[BumRushDaShow]

52. Thanks!

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]

54. YW - I've hit the limit with them already and clearing cookies didn't help, so... no prob! nt

[BumRushDaShow]

57. Ah okay...

Yeah I usually clear cookies for sites that do that and sometimes they have multiple URLs leaving cookies too.

[ancianita]

69. More from the Seattle Times, Guardian and Politico.

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]

71. All of them have the story now

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]

73. Yep, it's the kind of media delay we'll have to get used to as the FBI makes its moves.

[SheltieLover]

63. MSNBC said to be reporti7ng device sniffing dogs

& 12 boxes taken.

Let's

[BumRushDaShow]

67. LOL

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).

Rep. Scott Perry, a top Trump ally, says FBI agents seized his cellphone
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 general’s 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]

70. 👆👆 Another great find! nt

[crickets]

43. Ha! He's complaining they didn't warn him beforehand.

"This morning, while traveling with my family, 3 FBI agents visited me and seized my cell phone. They made no attempt to contact my lawyer, who would have made arrangements for them to have my phone if that was their wish. I’m outraged — though not surprised — that the FBI under the direction of Merrick Garland’s DOJ, would seize the phone of a sitting Member of Congress," Perry said in his statement. "My phone contains info about my legislative and political activities, and personal/private discussions with my wife, family, constituents, and friends. None of this is the government’s business."

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]

46. LOL! Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

[3Hotdogs]

18. Shit, getting real.

[BumRushDaShow]

19. HOT DAMN!

They also need to haul in the entire GOP legislative membership of PA!

[SergeStorms]

21. Will the hits never end? 🥳

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]

22. What a great week!

[Bev54]

23. I do hope there are a lot of GOP congressional members and staff

sweating their asses off, and it will have nothing to do with the weather.

[demmiblue]

24. FLASHBACK: Cheney: Scott Perry sought pardon for role in trying to overturn 2020 election results

Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, as well as multiple other Republican lawmakers, contacted the White House in the weeks after Jan. 6, 2021, to seek presidential pardons for their roles in attempting to overturn the presidential election results, the Jan. 6 select committee revealed Thursday in its prime-time hearing on the Capitol attack.

“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 panel’s first public hearing, as the bipartisan committee launched the unveiling of its findings of a yearlong investigation into the insurrection. It’s 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 Trump’s attempt to overturn the election, connecting Trump with Jeffrey Clark, an official in the Department of Justice who supported Trump’s 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]

25. Nice

[Evolve Dammit]

26. Did anyone notice the air was a tad fresher today??

[bucolic_frolic]

27. Gangsta Suits

[badhair77]

28. This guy needs to suffer.

He’s an arrogant piece of work. There are photos of him in the bunker during Jan 6 and he’s not concerned at all. No wonder he was calm and smiling, he helped organize it.

[haele]

29. He's screaming about the story before it breaks -

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]

30. Wait till the FBI wades through Alex Jones' treasure trove of texts. Suck it up goperz.

[GoCubsGo]

36. This makes me think they're already on it.

Can't wait to see who's next.

[Comfortably_Numb]

39. Me too. Just speculating. Gym Jordan....come on down!!!!!

[Tetrachloride]

32. There's a lot of Scott Perry's.

Denouncing the politician of Scott Perry or support.

i know a Scott Perry. I bet he’s feeling uncomfortable

[orangecrush]

33. K&R

[Botany]

34. I wonder who that phone connects to? Eastman? Rudy? Stone? Trump?

[crickets]

47. Don't forget Meadows.

Link to tweet

Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote
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]

58. Has Meadows flipped?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217020973

[SheltieLover]

65. Maybe why DOJ declined to prosecute Meadows for something recently

Can't recall what the issue was...

[crickets]

68. Contempt of Congress for not showing for J6C subpoena.

https://news.yahoo.com/former-trump-chief-staff-mark-030124472.html

[YoshidaYui]

35. only one word:

YAY

[Mysterian]

37. The USA is a nation of laws

Not criminal thuggery and mob rule.

The attempted coup was a crime committed against all Americans.

[meadowlander]

38. Ooooo... do Tucker next!

[Grins]

41. I'm lost. He didn't melt that phone...

…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]

51. "Is he that stupid?"

You really want an answer to that?

[BlueIdaho]

49. Somebody done

Turned up the heat. Let them all sweat.

[TeamProg]

59. Keep'em coming ! n/t

[dchill]

60. It would all be so wrong if these insurrectionists...

...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]

64. DOJ is making their move. Hang on.

[Maraya1969]

66. On 5 occasions Perry texted Meadows to ask to move the conversation to an encrypted app

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]

74. So Much

WINNING!

[C Moon]

75. DeSantis next, please.

Never mind, I thought it said Rick Perry.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

76. If you plot to overturn a fair election

and get caught, don't act all surprised

[lindysalsagal]

77. If you have seizure warrants, you should be rejected from government

And I certainly hope speaker P will call for impeachment. He can't be trusted.

[slumcamper]

78. OMG, what in the name of hell is happening to our country??? We need to make it great again.

And we are!

More please!