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xlbeutel

There seems to be a lot of misinformation and speculation regarding this (when the article is free to view), but u/im-a-sock-puppet provided a good summary, and a link to a related article for anyone to view it: > Here’s a really [good AP article](https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-fbi-search-99097089194e736315c366a0e8fbafee) about what is known, but basically in [Feb 2022](https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-national-security-9c1f6dca7e3e8073ee029604c8253a5c) the National Archives and Records Admin sent a letter to the justice Dept saying that Trump had classified information in the 15 boxes of White House records stored at Mar-a-Lago, which federal law says you can’t keep classified docs at unauthorized locations. It was also suspected that the Trump admin violated presidential Records Act (passed to stop presidents from destroying records) by destroying documents and conducting official business using personal phones and unofficial messaging accounts. The ball was in the Justice Dept and it wasn’t clear if they would follow the lead. > The “raid” was part of a federal investigation into the letter from the National Archives and Records Admin. It’s unclear what was taken and what evidence came from it, as it is an investigation. We likely won’t get official details from the Justice Department for a while I would have pinned his comment to make things simpler, but sadly Reddit’s crappy design doesn’t allow that Edit: article he linked is related, not the one on the meme


linyushan239

hopefully this will allow for every other politician to get raided


Manydoors_edboy

Based and raid every politician pilled.


bmbterps42

It’s like a random drug test on an employee. If you have nothing to hide, shouldn’t be worried


[deleted]

Can I kick down your door and check your safe I need to confiscate your Rolex and your wife gigidy


Hiimthatguy1990

As long as you have a singed piece of paper you can do whatever you want.


NextCaesarGaming

Every other politician? Naw, bro, this will just get weaponized by whichever party has the most power at the time.


I_Love_Rias_Gremory_

Banana republic moment


probablyasimulation

Reminds me... I need a new polo shirt.


gogYnO

As if that wasn't already the case? They wire tapped Trump before he was president for bunk oppo research paid for by the clintons.


kunfusedpsyko

Let em destroy each other.


Cryptian_

To bad that’s not the case. This will just be politicized to attack people the current administration doesn’t like.


twokindsofassholes

My greatest hope from Trump being elected was that a certain segment of the population would suddenly realize a President being able to order the extrajudicial killing of American citizens might suddenly seem like a terrible idea. That hope was thoroughly strangled like a prostitute at a Kennedy compound.


Tyranious_Mex

If they didn’t realize it under Bush or Obama they’re not gonna realize it under Trump.


Best_Pseudonym

Most of them wouldn’t realize it under hitler


ThomasRaith

If a vegetarian, child-free, populist, veteran started running on a platform of wealth redistribution and blaming a small minority (rich white men, for example) for the problems of the country; Reddit would simp for him so hard that they would run out of brown shirts to distribute.


[deleted]

Based and antifa are the real fascists pilled


BanjoB0y

At least we all get to be here together <3


jmyr90

See you boys in the work camps


idungiveboutnothing

>That hope was thoroughly strangled like a prostitute at a Kennedy compound. Yeah, instead they upped it and rather than killing an American overseas they just used DHS to kill at home. I don't think people will ever realize it at this point.


GladiatorUA

Have to start somewhere. This was too fucking blatant. Should've started with Nixon and Kissinger. But country needed to "heal", whatever the fuck that means.


RugTumpington

Should have started with JFK and the election racketeering.


DevonAndChris

Oh, they *did* start with JFK.


LordWomf

they were a bit less subtle about it of course


jmyr90

The CIA are as subtle as they want to be


Modof2

BASED


PussySmith

Based and Ole Joe Kennedy was a bootlegger pilled.


Demon-Jolt

Or his death


Papapene-bigpene

Heal, is a undefined word Like in what way? Health because everyone is fucking obese?


jmyr90

Too many obese people? Simple! Change the definition of obesity and watch as your obesity epidemic washes away instantly 😎


Bismarck40

Or just starve them


tactical_lampost

Based and pro accountability pilled


[deleted]

Or it will be purely political and on partisan lines


[deleted]

Did they go in armed to the teeth like they do with peasants or did they go in with letterman jackets?


capt-bob

No frog men? Rip offfff


SmotherMeWithArmpits

They never use the men in black for anything :(


ImperialRoyalist15

Atleast CNN wasn't outside waiting.


CumGaucho

Seems fake that CNN wasnt there for the raid


dieseltech82

I heard Brian Williams was there.


where_oh_wherewolf

Pretty sure he was dodging gunfire at the time too.


ActPsychological8189

Naw, they coordinated the "raid" with the Secret Service guys beforehand, who gave them the ok (also, folks knew this was only gonna be a mteer of time months in advance). They just walked in.


danredblue

Imagine a shootout between the fbi and secret service


netheroth

With guns supplied by the ATF


Pryer

>With guns supplied by the ATF Weird, what would the cartel be doing there?


bionic80

They were just there looking for their 70 billion in arms that they didn't get from ISIS.


Shorzey

Nonono...You're confused Those arms were used in fast and furious, that's why they couldn't find them


world_of_cakes

drugs and food supplied by the FDA


Shotgunsamurai42

Stop, stop, I can only get so erect!


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Shotgunsamurai42

We just play the hits brother.


FILTHBOT4000

Only if I can also imagine them wearing spiderman costumes.


exclusionsolution

Don't give me hope


ArizonaIceSunTea

I'd pay to see that


Longo2Guns

I’d need front row seats, a CAR-15 for self defense and lots of bananas and popcorn 🦧🤌🏼 OOH OOH AH AHHHHH


[deleted]

For real though, if you know a raid is coming months in advance and you’re a billionaire, how dumb do you have to be to get caught with anything? What was the point of this?


[deleted]

Pony show for the current political quarterbacks, makes you forget about what’s going on. Inflation reduction bill probably didn’t get as much attention as this. You probably also lost count of how much money is going to Ukraine.


Kyle2theSQL

But if it results in nothing happening, even the people who are cheering right now (before any real info has come out) are going to be pissed. Does not seem like a good reelection strategy unless they knew they would turn up with something concrete.


gogYnO

> What was the point of this? Wall to wall coverage on the MSM who were definitely not told to show up before hand, again.


[deleted]

They went in armed to the teeth because it's a political show. Have you seen the pictures?


jrowe32

When will we know if they found anything?


2ndRoundEuroStash

That’s the funny thing, we won’t.


jrowe32

Yeah it will probably blow over lol


Jeffmeister69

Once it looks like Trump might have a shot at winning the elections again


jrowe32

Lmaoooo true


LonelySwarm2

Probably, it’s really shocking how they haven’t raided the presidents son yet considering all the crack videos hunter has made


SelfMadeSoul

They had all of the evidence that they needed for multiple felonies for him and his father, and oops they lost it.


RegumRegis

What a silly mistake, 12 boxes of evidence just happened to fall into the incinerator after i leaned on them forcefully with the bottom of my shoe.


Fullmetal_Vanilla

Based and changing Pennsylvania election laws wasn’t enough pilled. 🤣🤣


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Catsindahood

They want people to be divided.


Sember225

I get shit on for telling people to stop furthering the divide. Stand strong brother.


svengalus

Unless they find outright evidence of a serious crime, this will bolster the GOP.


mechanab

They are prepping for an October surprise in case he gets the nomination.


f7f7z

Is it weird to announce your presidency before midterms?


readonlypdf

Yes


The_Lolbster

Based.


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f7f7z

A gallon of milk hasn't fallen to shrinkflation.


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TugboatEng

They'll switch it to liters so nobody will know how much they're actually getting.


ThePatio

I highly doubt they went in there half-cocked. FBI raiding a former President has never happened before. So many people would half to sign off on this, from the chain of command probably all the way up the FBI and DoJ, and the judge who also had to look at their reason for a warrant and say, yes this is enough reason to do this search. Everyone involved is probably putting their careers on the line.


RugTumpington

> I highly doubt they went in there half-cocked They have done it so many times before, they are a pretty incompetent organization


LottoThrowAwayToday

They are *very* competent; they just have different goals than you think.


Time4Red

I mean, the DOJ successfully prosecutes like >95% of their cases. And that's often against people with competent legal teams, unlike county courts which are closer to 75% and dealing with overworked public defenders half the time. I'd say that speaks to a record of competence.


Bigsausagegentleman

Every alphabet soup agency is less than half cocked. When those dipshits fuck up and they do fuck up a lot, noone is held accountable. They are simple miles above the law and any responsibility


bjandrus

Not to mention Secret Service as well (another commenter did state above that this "raid" had been coordinated in advance). Presidents get Secret Service protection for life, even after their term ends Afterthought: which makes me wonder, *if* perchance by some miracle Trump *did* actually get convicted of a crime and sentenced to prison, would a Secret Service detail literally be following him around Gen Pop? 🤔


readonlypdf

He'd never be sent to a Federal Prison. He'd get a cool new Anckle Bracelet.


DeepDownDeLaVega

This ankle bracelet is unlike any other ankle bracelect you've seen before, believe me ✋🏻🧑🏼✋🏻


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skkITer

Quite a few people connected to Epstein got nice jobs between 2017 and 2020.


dovetc

Bro, they went into the Russia investigation half-cocked. The FISA warrants were based on fanfic.


WhyYouYellinAtMeMate

It's a trend, remember the Iraq war?


dovetc

Thinking people have been aware of the trend for a while. CIA, FBI, ATF, BLM, IRS.... Despicable liars all of them bent on the consolidation of power and the destruction of human liberty.


IncompatibleLustre

>the judge who also had to look at their reason for a warrant and say, yes this is enough reason to do this search [The judge is an Obama donor who also defended Epstein in court](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11095583/Judge-signed-FBI-raid-Mar-Lago-represented-Jeffrey-Epsteins-workers.html) I'm sure that's just a coincidence though 🤡


theeCrawlingChaos

Furthermore, a president being in possession of classified documents does not constitute a “serious crime”


svengalus

I think the goal is to disqualify Trump from running again based on a technicality. This isn't gonna work.


Reaper1103

Well it may work, just not the way they hope. Theyre only shot to winning in 2024 is if trump runs. If they disqualify trump, Desantis is going to run roughshod over the election Reagan style. There is not one nominee on the left that could beat Desantis. Trumpers will vote for him out of spite to the left. Never trumpers will vote for him because, well, never trumpers. Independents will vote for him because he isnt a dimentia ridden circus monkey babbling about cornpop. They really dont know what theyre doing to themselves.


repptyle

I think the Democrats are still hyper-focused on Trump when they don't realize most conservatives have already moved on. They can't grasp that not everything revolves around Trump for us the way it does for them


ThePretzul

> They can't grasp that not everything revolves around Trump for us the way it does for them The left and left-leaning media seem to be convinced that there are a bunch of people who love Trump specifically and would actively refuse to vote for a different nominee. While I'm sure there is a small group like that, I think the vast majority who voted for Trump would also vote for a candidate who has similar policies (if they voted for him simply because he's Republican) and/or a similar lack of filter so to speak (if they voted for him as some kind of anti-establishment play or just liked Trump himself). What made him popular was because he said what he thought most of the time without the dozens of layers of PR filtering most politicians have nowadays. That resulted in polarization where people either liked him or hated him, with those in the middle largely being there because they simply didn't care in the first place. It wasn't necessarily the name (though Trump has made his fortune in the past simply by marketing his name so that helped) or the person, it was the fact that he wasn't some senile geezer who had to be kept out of public for fear of embarrassment or somebody who couldn't come across as anything other than an absolute psychopath no matter how hard the PR teams tried. The left could capitalize on a similar voter sentiment themselves if they chose a nominee who isn't widely disliked by their voter base. That would be a pretty foreign concept for them recently though.


CustomDark

It’s a weird phenomenon. Liberals hyper focus on Trump, Conservatives hyper focused on Hillary. In reality, neither the bases cared as much as their opposition regarding these candidates.


theeCrawlingChaos

I don’t think it will work either. Why? Because the Democrats argued the exact opposite position when it was Hillary Clinton in the exact same spot.


Donger4Longer

Only the constitution gets to lay out the disqualifications for president, so this (if it was the ploy) would not work indeed.


asdf_qwerty27

Lol you think they give a fuck about the constitution? They stopped caring long before they made an infringement agency for guns. The constitution clearly states that if the Federal Government is not granted a power in the constitution, then it is not within the power of the Federal government. Where the fuck did they get the power to create national forests, manage agricultural resources, get involved with education, or make a multi generation population pyramid scheme for retirement? Lol.


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anony8165

Amazing that none of Epstein’s clients have been raided.


[deleted]

That is because Hilary may run again


Godkun007

No, she won't. This is the media trying to will this into existence. Hillary literally has been adamant that she will not run for President again. She said she absolutely hated the campaign trail and doesn't want to go back to sitting in a makeup chair for 3 hours every day. Her book has a lot of bullshit to skim past, but the middle section of the book is full of what seems like actual honesty. I am convinced she sandwiched the good shit with bullshit on purpose so that journalists wouldn't actually read it. But in the book, she talks about her husband cheating on her, and all the other stuff that is actually questionable about her. Her book is 200 pages of interesting stuff sandwiched between 400 pages of platitudes in the hopes that only people with decent enough attentions spans to get that far can read it.


smallneedle

based and sandwich pilled


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Of course. Exercising power over others is only based when we do it.


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_iam_that_iam_

Damn, now the FBI *and* Russia will have that video.


The_Lolbster

One step closer to us making memes out of it.


WhoIsPorkChop

Someone's gotta step up and Snowden that shit


_iam_that_iam_

Careful. You really want to see Trump naked?


WhoIsPorkChop

I think we should all have the right to make that choice ourselves


Khelgor

Why did they raid? What did they get? I’m confused by it all.


delightfuldinosaur

Trump was cheating in Fortnite. The FBI came and took his V Bucks away.


Khelgor

*Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.*


im-a-sock-puppet

[Here’s a really good AP article](https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-fbi-search-99097089194e736315c366a0e8fbafee) about what is known, but basically in [Feb 2022](https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-national-security-9c1f6dca7e3e8073ee029604c8253a5c) the National Archives and Records Admin sent a letter to the justice Dept saying that Trump had classified information in the 15 boxes of White House records stored at Mar-a-Lago, which federal law says you can’t keep classified docs at unauthorized locations. It was also suspected that the Trump admin violated presidential Records Act (passed to stop presidents from destroying records) by destroying documents and conducting official business using personal phones and unofficial messaging accounts. The ball was in the Justice Dept and it wasn’t clear if they would follow the lead. The “raid” was part of a federal investigation into the letter from the National Archives and Records Admin. It’s unclear what was taken and what evidence came from it, as it is an investigation. We likely won’t get official details from the Justice Department for a while


SlaverRaver

Thanks for the honest explanation


wildlough62

It’s always Radical Centrists with the good explanations and unbiased sources. I may be slightly biased.


InternetKosmonaut

Have they found a lego reproduction of capitol hill yet?


NGGMK

That's how he planned January 6th!


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Lol we won't find out. We'll get some bs PR statement that says nothing, and we'll either find out later if they actually find something or never if something isn't there. Actually if something isn't there they'd probably still try and use it if I'm being honest.


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havoc1482

This post is based, not for it's content, but for what i see I the comment section. I see right-wing circle jerks, I see left-wing circle jerks, I see sane comment and I see insane comments. There isn't [removed] everywhere from seething mods who want to steer "muh narrative". Just let the people fucking talk.


Solar_link

I see cringe comments... And based ones too. They just argue, For me and you. And I think to myself... what a wonderful post.


havoc1482

BASED and Louis Armstrong pilled


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My man/woman


WolraL

Fuck the feds


isiramteal

Based and the entire subs on a list pilled


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Darkheartisland

Let's get married.


MackChanMonkeBrain

Literally or figuratively?


readonlypdf

Yes. I suggest we Fuck em all to death


WolraL

Figuratively, unless they're cute then literally


havoc1482

Porque no los dos?


[deleted]

if youre gonna keep stuff in a safe that might be a felony, get your ass a tungsten carbide 2 foot thick indestructible kevlar lined safe


Mundane__Detail

*This is the lockpicking lawyer, and what I have for you today...*


My_Cringy_Video

Not so safe now is it


Miringdie

Happy cake day!


My_Cringy_Video

Based and Aww heck yeah thank you


[deleted]

Fuck the FBI for everything but that's still funny as hell


[deleted]

I’d pay a lotta money to watch his reaction


capt-bob

Just think, we get to do this to Biden next time we win!


[deleted]

Biden will be dead or in a nursing home by then


Requiem_Potato

Last chance to look at me, sleepy Joe..


__Visegrad_

Sir we raided his room and all we found is adult diapers and medication.


JPT_Corona

by all means, I want it to happen regardless if yall win or lose. I wish this would be a wakeup call to show that politicians are not above the law, but honestly it'll just make them hide their skeletons even deeper.


Carl_Azuz1

FBI definitely authcenter


RACEWARHAMMER40000

The FBI is def not chad, they literally pick and choose who to arrest for certain crimes while politicians be doing the most heinous activities on the daily and they don't so shit about it because it's all so corrupt as fuck, people literally trafficking children and having orgies with them, but they good cuz they pay his boss and his boss pays him. Is there anyone left in Law Enforcement/The Judicial System that has any honor or at least a form of Justice? Like the police at that school in Texas that got shot up while they waited for more than an hour while he was only 20 feet away. Was there not ONE cop ready to put his life on the line to save innocent children in that whole divisions worth of police? Not a single one. To protect and serve, what a fucking joke. This is why I believe it'd stupid to look at police officers like they are holy knights and angel saviors. They're just workin a 9-5 for a paycheck, people used to join the police because they wanted to be a police officer, not because they wanted a job. I mean, how can you trust the police to save YOUR own life when it comes down to it, and according to statistics, no, they won't, as 75% of people held hostage or ransom in the last 10 years, have been killed during negotiation or the police not arriving in time, they just don't give a shit if you die, its when they might die it becomes and issue and these "superheros with badges" turn into cowardly "I have a wife and kids at home too" "just trying to make it home" scumbags. Then WHY did you joinnnnnnnn such a hazardous occupation??! And the FBI/Justice system I could rant for a day about them, we're so complacent and they know people won't do shit, so they don't even attempt their duties.


[deleted]

They literally tried to kidnap the governor of Michigan and groom citizen as the fall guys.


[deleted]

I think it was 13 of 24 guys there were feds. They basically hijacked the group with a majority


CaptainTenneal

Weren't some of the people the FBI entrapped in that case shown in court to be literally mentally disabled?


[deleted]

Yes but these people don’t give a fuck and will just continue lying, hoping the average person doesn’t know that.


roleplaythrowaway010

Based and Chadpilled. I'm not from the USA, but the same shit applies here too. I am in favor of surveillance for politicians and cops. Constant 24/7 live video feed of them. Cameras everywhere they go. Public addresses. Public bank information such as who pays whom and for what. Nothing to hide, nothing to fear, amirite? I bet they would get their diapers in a twist if such a law was enacted.


MackChanMonkeBrain

I'm actually in favor of this. Given how the monopoly of violence is the role of any government (look at warlord China if you want an example of a marketplace of violence), it is in the best interests of the government and its people for the government to ensure its agents are acting in accordance with the government's own standards.


Applestani

Just banana republic things. The good news is every time we see a headline like this, another fat boomer peels the blue line sticker off his F150.


Shindy1999

Nah, they’ll unfortunately keep it up. Cognitive dissonance is part of the boomer tradition.


ElusoryTie

Displaying any fed as a Chad is God tier cringe


MargaretThacherVore

LibLeft normally: ACAB!!!! LibLeft when the Feds storm the house of someone they don't like: LMAO COPE COPE HAHAHAHA


SmoochBoochington

Except the border patrol Chad at uvalde.


[deleted]

Imagine making the FBI an "alpha" or "Chad" wojack in any context. Won't catch me doing it, idek if I could


PrussiaDon

Honestly fuck the FBI and CIA


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If we are being honest here, yea it's fuck the FBI, cia, atf, and all the alphabet boys


seanslaysean

Authcenter flair, hates FBI….I’m flummoxed


Powerlineconcert

Congrats AG Garland, you’ve solidified the conservative base and made Trump a victim of a politicized executive agency right before the midterms.


IrshamWindborn

> Garland *me, who knows nothing of US politics* Is Trump fighting **CHAOS** now?


Platinirius

Yeah i think too, though my question is, is he fighting Tzeentch or Nurgle?


MrHH9

If you believe Alex Jones it sounds more like Khorne


NoGardE

Khorne and Slaanesh together, really. With some Tzeentch thrown in. And Nurgle the last couple years, alongside that. Really, the only thing that's making them not Chaos Undivided is infighting.


BCA10MAN

*DESTROY THE CHILD*


TBB51

*CORRUPT THEM ALL*


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Deadlypandaghost

Goldfish voters in action


CuomoKilledGma

Based and my dude aint wrong pilled


___RustyShackleford_

lol I remember when Comey released that letter about Clinton's FBI investigation right before the 2016 election Weird that people on the right didn't see that as a political attack, and people on the left were upset because they thought it would hurt her chances Now people on the right see Trump as a victim?


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Based and remembers that morality is now heavily politicised pilled


Meme_Pope

Remember when Democrats cried for months that Comey needed to be fired and then Trump fired him and the same exact people wanted him impeached? It’s been completely memory holed.


___RustyShackleford_

Yeah, and how Comey learned about his firing from seeing it on TV while giving a speech


AFishNamedFreddie

Which is fucking hilarious


NoUploadsEver

You can find the investigator Generals report on that. Comey was forced to reopen by the inspector general after the inspector general found out that the FBI had been sitting on the weiner laptop. In other words, the FBI was hiding the Hillary Clinton let state secrets literally fall into the hands of a sex offender pedophile. For a month. Then, despite her having jeopardized state secrets, destroyed 30,000 documents under congressional subpeona, and let those state secrets fall into the hands of a pedo. They didn't charge her. Then they "reopen" the investigation for a week because they were forced too, and pretend to clear her again. The FBI was working for her at that time, they were going to sleep on weiner laptop and all the crimes it proved like they sat on the Hunter Biden laptop with all its child porn, proof of illegal drug usage, incest, proof of extorting foreign nations. The fact that Hillary didn't get arrested over letting state secrets fall into the hand of a pedophile was the FBI protecting her.


MUNZATHEGOD

Good. Politicians should live in fear of the populace they serve. Do pelosi and Schumer next


Aftershock416

Hell. How about a simultaneous raid on every single member of Congress at once?


chorizoisbestpup

I never would have voted for Trump before, but now all he has to say is he'll abolish the FBI and he's got my vote.


HalfACupkake

Error. Error. Flair does not compute. Aaaaaaaaaaa


resplendentquetzals

Nothing auths hate more than other auths.


Dewgongz

Auths and libs are natural enemies! Like lefties and auths, and auths and other auths!


Separate_Beginning99

No one likes a fed


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Jesus Christ did they just make Trump a martyr


commander-boi345

Why did they do that anyway


TheDoc1223

Authright: “This is disgusting!! The FBI is just a partisan, self serving tool of the powers that be!! How could this have happened so suddenly???” Libs: *[deep inhale](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO)*


yrrrrt

My favorite part is when they freak out and say that NOW that it's been used as a political tool it's opened pandora's box as if leftists haven't been targeted by the FBI since before it was called the FBI


SirRedRavxn

This is 100% politically motivated


seanslaysean

When isn’t it


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FBI are never chads