The minute that the FBI says that "they do not comment on ongoing investigations"...

[kentuck]

...it changes the game for the Republicans.

How?

Because if they know there is an "ongoing investigation", they do not know how it is going to turn out.

They do not know if an indictment is coming or when?

Do they want to throw their support behind a candidate who may be soon indicted and tried in a criminal trial? Is that who they want to be the next president?

That is what an "ongoing investigation" means to the Republican Party. I cannot understand how people think this is good news for Trump or the Republicans?

[Walleye]

1. And they don't know how many are going to be indicted in the conspiracy

[kentuck]

2. They are playing their usual bullshit game...

...to see how many people are fooled and freak out.

[Walleye]

3. I keep telling myself that the thousand year Reich only lasted for about 13 years

[Chainfire]

12. Yes, but it was responsible for the deaths of 80 million people..

About 3% of the world's population in 1940. It is not something that I want to try to wait out.

I used to ask myself, "How did the German people let the Nazis gain total power?" Now I am living it.

[Walleye]

14. That's a good point. We have to remain vigilant

[Ohio Joe]

4. Cultists are not rational...

They go all in for Dear Leader. It will not end well for any of them.

[SergeStorms]

5. Except for....

Hillary. Comey stepped all over her candidacy when he told everyone that the investigation into her emails was renewing because of Weiner's laptop.

You'll never hear a good word about Comey come from my mouth. You'll hear plenty of cuss words, though.

[Drum]

6. Yup!

[kentuck]

7. They are trying to get the Justice Dept to fall for the same trick again...

...it appears? "No Comment".

[BigmanPigman]

16. Ditto

[Jarqui]

8. The FBI took painstaking steps to do this quietly.

If it had not been for Trump, we might not know about it.
Or it might have been an uncorroborated rumor.

[gab13by13]

9. A search of this size is not going to be hidden.

The targets always spill the beans, or journalists.

[Jarqui]

10. If DoJ says nothing and Trump & his people say nothing,

you do not have the media firestorm we're seeing.

It is uncorroborated or weakly corroborated rumors.

[kentuck]

11. Democrats need to stick to the facts...

That Donald Trump has an inventory of everything that was taken from his home, if he wants his supporters to see it. He doesn't or he would have already.

[Jarqui]

13. Absolutely.

I've maintained that too.

If they want transparency, let Trump provide the search warrant and transmittal of documents taken.
Apparently, the transmittal is vaguely worded to protect classified material so there is no excuse not to provide it.

[Nevilledog]

15. He did today in Omaha

Link to tweet

Tweet text:

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Speaking for the first time since the FBI searched Former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, FBI Director Christopher Wray told reporters in Omaha, NB he couldn’t get into the details. “Well, as I’m sure you can appreciate that’s not something I can talk about,” he said.

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Wray is the first senior Justice Department official to appear on camera and take questions about the FBI searching Mar-a-lago.
12:52 PM · Aug 10, 2022

Okay.... He didn't say ongoing investigation

[relayerbob]

17. The only explanation the GQP is owed

Is their Miranda Rights being read to them as they are being hauled away.

[Captain Zero]

18. TFGs Supremes ruled Miranda doesn't need to be read

In one of their recent decisions this TFG Supreme Court ruled Miranda rights do not have to be read to an arrested person.

I'm not kidding. The ruling was Miranda Rights are still in effect. We still have our Miranda rights. But no one has to read them to us anymore.

So everyone beware. Don't talk to the police until you have a lawyer. They can lie to you. But you can't lie to them. Get a lawyer if you are arrested and before talking to police. It's better to spend a night in jail than to talk to police without a lawyer.