It’s Friday. Did something of observe even occur this week? [Looks through papers] Oh, sure. The FBI executed a search warrant, approved by Legal professional Common Merrick Garland, at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago house and eliminated roughly a dozen bins from the premises—a few of which contained categorized paperwork, presumably together with America’s carefully held nuclear secrets and techniques.
The proper-wing response has been grotesquely predictable: Pundits say the paperwork have been planted, that Donald Trump couldn’t presumably know what paperwork he was storing away throughout his retirement, and that we should always defund the FBI for [checks notes] doing their job.
There’s additionally the push from the fascist proper to argue that Donald Trump, by advantage of being Donald Trump, can’t break legal guidelines. (And that the previous president may have declassified these stolen nuke codes with out alerting anybody, which appears completely regular and wonderful, proper?)
And, in fact, they’ve additionally stated that is all a conspiracy by Jews to regulate the world and switch it into Communism with a capital “C.”
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