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ItsjustMe

(11,230 posts)
Thu Aug 18, 2022, 08:40 AM Aug 2022

As Search Shows Trump Had Secret Files, GOP Splits Over Assailing FBI

https://news.yahoo.com/search-shows-trump-had-secret-144031362.html

Republicans struggled to come together on how to respond to the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago as it emerged Friday that federal law enforcement officers had recovered top secret files from former President Donald Trump’s Florida home.

They were divided over whether to attack the nation’s top law enforcement agencies and how aggressive to be in those attacks.

Publicly, Trump’s allies continued an aggressive push to portray the former president as a political target while sending urgent-sounding fundraising appeals to supporters. But privately, some advisers around Trump, unsure about what the FBI might have recovered, began quietly cautioning fellow Republicans to dial down their statements.

On Capitol Hill, a group of conservative Republicans known as the House Freedom Caucus — many of whom dined with Trump at his Bedminster, New Jersey, club Tuesday and denounced the FBI search as a sign that the Biden administration was turning the country into a “banana republic” — canceled a news conference scheduled for Friday morning. They had planned to further attack the Department of Justice.

That decision, publicly attributed to a scheduling conflict, came after a gunman’s attack on an FBI office in Cincinnati on Thursday afternoon and as more details emerged about Trump’s possession of classified documents.

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FBI seized Trump's extortion files too. This Thread looks at that





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As Search Shows Trump Had Secret Files, GOP Splits Over Assailing FBI (Original Post) ItsjustMe Aug 2022 OP
Terrifying. . . . Lovie777 Aug 2022 #1
FBI seized Trump's extortion files too. SWBTATTReg Aug 2022 #2

SWBTATTReg

(22,100 posts)
2. FBI seized Trump's extortion files too.
Thu Aug 18, 2022, 06:14 PM
Aug 2022

Wow. Just like a mobster. When will they RICO djt and the entire racket/group of thugs?

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