'Banana Republic': DeSantis Slams FBI Raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago Home

Glenn Beck: You decide who gets a Badge of Merit
We’ve been looking for people who deserve a George Washington Badge of Merit. Many of you have submitted nominations. From your hundreds of nominations, we have narrowed it down to three finalists. Now, it’s up to you to decide who gets this honor.

Trump disqualified from holding office? Clinton-linked lawyer points to US Code after FBI raid
Marc Elias, the top lawyer for Hillary’s 2016 campaign who had a role in pushing Trump-Russia collusion, claims, pointing to U.S. Code Title 18, Section 2071: "The media is missing the really, really big reason why the raid today is a potential blockbuster in American politics."

Team Biden Claims ‘No Advance Knowledge’ of FBI Raid on Donald Trump’s House at Mar-A-Lago
“No advance knowledge. Some learned from old media, some from social media,” a senior White House official told CBS reporter Ed O’Keefe when asked about the raid.

Trump Supporters Gather Outside Mar-a-Lago After FBI Raid
There are reports that local law enforcement are telling the gathering supporters to leave. However, one Twitter user claimed that Trump’s supporters were still pouring in to show support for the former president despite police requests.

Report: FBI Grabbed Boxes Without Going Through Them or Knowing What’s In Them
“They were not being judicious about what they took,” the source tells Fox News.

Mueller prosecutor on the FBI's Trump raid
"I'd be advising my client to tell their family I'm looking at jail time"

Hollywood Celebrities Cheer as FBI Raids Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
Far-left Hollywood celebrities openly cheered news that the FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home on Monday, hoping it would lead to an arrest.

Leftists, Media Gloat over FBI Raid of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago: ‘No One Is Pardoning Him’
Democrats and the media on Monday gloated on Twitter over the FBI’s reported raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.

Flashback: Why the FBI Didn't Want to Charge Hillary Clinton
For Clinton to be prosecuted, there would have to be more than just an allegation of her mishandling classified information through her use of a private server for her emails.

'Banana Republic': Ron DeSantis slams FBI Mar-a-Lago raid
"The raid of MAL is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves. Now the Regime is getting another 87k IRS agents to wield against its adversaries? Banana Republic."

Top progressive Dem says 'Trump should be in jail' after FBI raid
"Donald Trump should be in jail. I’m glad to see the FBI taking steps towards accountability," Rep. Pramila Jayapal said.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn Blasts FBI for Raiding Trump but Not Obama, Clinton
“Bill and Hillary Clinton took $28,000 worth of furnishings from the White House. Obama violated the Presidential Records Act,” Blackburn tweeted. “Why did the FBI not raid their houses?”

Thomas Massie: A President Just Raided a Former President, His Political Opponent
"There are only three branches of government. The FBI is works for the current President."

Unprecedented political weaponization of the Justice Department: Kristi Noem
"The FBI raid on President Trump’s home is an unprecedented political weaponization of the Justice Department. They’ve been after President Trump as a candidate, as President, and now as a former President. Using the criminal justice system in this manner is un-American."

Nikki Haley Calls on Biden to Answer for Raid on Mar-a-Lago
"The American people must always trust their government. The DOJ and FBI don’t have the luxury of saying 'no comment'. If they won’t comment, then Biden owes it to the American people to answer for his agencies. If Biden doesn’t act, then Congress needs to handle this."

Bernie Kerik: 'If FBI Raid Will Not Stop Donald Trump – Their Next Step Will Be Assassination'
"And just like in other Third World countries, if today’s raid by Biden’s FBI does not stop Donald Trump from running for president in 2024, their next move will be Assassination."

Kevin McCarthy To Merrick Garland: 'Preserve Your Documents and Clear Your Calendar'
"The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization. When Republicans take back the House, we will conduct immediate oversight of this department, follow the facts, and leave no stone unturned."

Marco Rubio: FBI Raids Trump’s Home, Ignores Pro-Abortion Violence
“Using government power to persecute political opponents is something we have seen many times from 3rd world Marxist dictatorships,” he tweeted. “But never before in America”

RedState: After the FBI's Trump Raid, Don't Take the Bait
There is nothing the Biden administration and the left at large want more than another January 6th moment before the mid-terms.

CNN: The vise is tightening around Donald Trump as 2024 decision looms
Trump is far more likely to see a 2024 run for president curtailed by legal problems than political ones.

CNN: The extraordinary political storm unleashed by the FBI search of Trump's Florida resort
It also comes with the ex-President itching to launch a 2024 campaign rooted in his false claims of electoral fraud, which his authoritarian rhetoric suggests would present a profound challenge to democracy.

WaPo: The FBI search of Mar-a-Lago instantly became entangled with politics
Politicization was inevitable, given the advantage Trump thinks it offers

WaPo: Top Republicans echo Trump’s evidence-free claims to discredit FBI search
Their quick defense of Trump and combative posture underlined the former president’s status as a standard-bearer in the party, even as he was tainted anew by another investigation.

The Atlantic: The Mar-a-Lago Raid Proves the U.S. Isn’t a Banana Republic
A bedrock principle is that no one—not even the president, much less the former president—is above the law, and if they commit crimes they must answer for them.

Brian Stelter: How the extraordinary FBI search of Mar-a-Lago was covered across the media landscape
The MAGA media message is: The government is corrupt, the FBI is a threat to real Americans, the Democrats are to blame, and the Republicans are going to correct it.

Steve Bannon Reacts To The FBI Raiding Mar-a-Lago
"They're absolutely petrified Trump is going to announce in the next couple of weeks, win the Republican nomination, win the White House. This is so outrageous. It needs to be investigated."

Dershowitz: Trump Raid ‘Improper’ — ‘This Is Misconduct’
“The raid is supposed to be a last resort,” he said. “But this administration has used the weaponization of the justice system against its political enemies."

Alyssa Farah Griffin warns FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago could 'tear the country apart'
The Trump staffer turned critic said on CNN that she worries for the stability of the country in the aftermath of the FBI raid on Trump's Florida resort.

Alex Jones: Deep State Coup Has Begun
"FBI raids have finally reached the former president of the United States as Donald J. Trump’s Mar-A-Lago residence was invaded by an army of Feds under the guise of looking for classified documents."

WaPo: Inside Biden’s hot streak, from the poolside to the Capitol
His challenge now, supporters say, is to turn this moment into a pivot point that reorients his presidency and energizes Democrats.

Biden says ‘inflation’ bill funds health care, ‘God knows what else’ in bizarre speech
“We’ve never done this before, but because of a number of things we got done on a bipartisan basis — like a billion, 200 million-dollar infrastructure project — like what we’re doing today, we passed yesterday, helping take care of everything from health care to God knows what else...”

Biden implies we'll soon control the weather
Biden yells at victims of a tornado, then proceeds to tell them, "The weather may be beyond our control, for now, but it’s not beyond our control."

Dem committee: Gun companies emphasize masculinity and reference white supremacist groups to sell assault rifles
"The [gun] industry is both creating these customers and marketing to them. And therefore, it's propagating more of this radicalization," Ryan Busse said.

Liz Cheney’s Husband Is Partner At Law Firm Representing Hunter Biden
Philip Perry, who is married Liz Cheney, is a partner at the same law firm representing Joe Biden’s scandal-ridden son, Hunter.

Liz Cheney 'would find it very difficult' to back Ron DeSantis for president
"I think that Ron DeSantis has lined himself up almost entirely with Donald Trump, and I think that's very dangerous," Cheney said.

Dem strategist: DeSantis is a "scarier prospect" than Trump
“What’s inexplicable to me is, why — not just Joe Biden — but the entire Democratic establishment isn’t trying to disqualify him now in the governor’s race.”

Pro-Impeachment Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler Loses To Trump-Backed Primary Challenger
Retired Green Beret Joe Kent defeated Republican Washington Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler in a primary challenge stemming from her vote to impeach former President Donald Trump in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Recall of far-left LA DA Gascon threatened by 'failure' to follow law, group claims
Gascon's recall is being undermined by Los Angeles County officials who are not following the law, giving the prosecutor the edge, a campaign to unseat him explosively claims.

Wait and see: U.S. companies curb investment as they await Fed moves
Business investment appears to be an early victim of red-hot U.S. inflation and rising interest rates.

Amid inflation, people desperate for cash are turning to pawn shops
Rick Harrison of 'Pawn Stars' shared his observations amid today's higher prices of food, gas, and more

Groupon cuts over 500 staff
The reduction impacted workers in teams including merchant development, sales, recruiting, engineering, product, and marketing.

US to send Ukraine $5.5 billion in new fiscal, military aid
The United States will send an additional $5.5 billion in aid to Ukraine, made up of $4.5 billion in budgetary support and $1 billion in military assistance, to help it come to grips with the turmoil of this year's Russian invasion.

Fears Of Nuclear Incident Grow As Shells Strike Plant That Dwarfs Chernobyl
Russia seized the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station — Europe’s largest — early in the war.

Anger and anxiety stalk EU’s monkeypox vaccine lottery
Vaccine tourism is back as people seek to protect themselves against illness and stigma.

Claim: Insurance Companies Reported ‘Unexplained’ Spike in Young Adult Deaths in Late 2021
It's a very sketchy claim as it relies on anonymous sources claiming they saw internal data, which is not provided. We do know that deaths from drug overdoses and sucide have spiked and stayed high since early COVID lockdowns.

American schools spent millions on COVID scanners that didn’t work
As stories break regularly about fraudulent use of COVID relief money, a new report has found yet another extensive case of poorly spent funds related to tackling the virus.

Babylon Bee: Biden Invites Group Of Kids To White House To See If His Sense Of Smell Has Returned
After finally testing negative for COVID, President Biden has invited a group of kids back to the White House to see if his sense of smell has returned.

The US made a breakthrough battery discovery — then gave the technology to China
Instead of the batteries becoming the next great American success story, the warehouse is now shuttered and empty. All the employees who worked there were laid off. The Chinese company didn't steal this technology. It was given to them — by the U.S. Department of Energy.

China’s military extends drills near Taiwan after Pelosi trip
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said Monday that the exercises were aimed at "sending a warning" to those seeking Taiwan independence.

Maritime insurance industry sees little elevated risk from China’s exercises
On Feb. 15, maritime insurers decided an invasion was imminent and raised the Russian and Ukrainian waters to the industry’s highest risk category. At the moment, there is no such change with Taiwan.

David McCullough, Award-Winning American Historian, Dies at 89
McCullough was known for writing multiple books on American history and winning two Pulitzer Prizes for his writings on American presidents Harry Truman in 1994 and John Adams in 2001.

American Audiences Flock To Non-Woke Entertainment
Tom Cruise’s "Top Gun: Maverick" became the seventh-highest grossing film domestically, earning a jaw-dropping $662 million in the United States alone. It surpassed "Titanic" as Paramount’s biggest film in the 110-year history of the studio.

Anne Heche in a coma in 'extreme critical condition' following fiery crash, manager says
A representative for Heche had previously said Saturday that the actress was in "stable condition."

Ashton Kutcher ‘Lucky to Be Alive’ After Autoimmune Disease That Left Him Unable to See, Hear, or Walk
Kutcher says he had a “super rare form of vasculitis” that caused him to temporarily lose a few of his core senses

Ezra Miller charged with felony burglary in Vermont
“The Flash” star was charged after the homeowners reported the missing bottles of booze to police on May 1.

Axios agrees to sell to Cox Enterprises for $525 million
Axios was founded in 2016 by the same leaders who built Politico, with a focus on politics, tech and business. In 2020, it began a significant expansion into local news.

Latest MSM Claim: Photos show handwritten notes that Trump apparently ripped up and attempted to flush down toilet
Newly revealed photographs reveal two occasions on which Trump apparently flushed documents down the toilet.

Trump Said Wounded Veterans In Military Parades Didn’t 'Look Good' For Him: Leftist Book Claims
Very believable.

Trump Complained His Generals Did Not Act Enough Like Hitler's: Leftist Book Claims
Very believable.

EPA Agents Are Flying Helicopters Over Texas Oil Fields To Crack Down On Methane Emissions From Drilling
The EPA is conducting helicopter flyovers over the Permian Basin to identify “super-emitters” of methane gas among oil and gas operations, according to an Aug. 1 news release.

Climate Change Is Supercharging Most Infectious Diseases, New Study Claims
“I have to tell you that as this database started to grow, I started to get scared, man,” the lead author said.

UK justice secretary plans to bar men from women's prisons
"It's obvious a woman cannot be born with a penis"

School district apologizes for logo resembling swastika on shirt given to staff at conference
“We are deeply sorry for this mistake and for the emotions that the logo has evoked by its semblance to a swastika. We condemn anything associated with the Nazi regime in the strongest manner possible.”

Amazon’s Roomba Deal Is Really About Mapping Your Home
In buying iRobot, the e-commerce titan gets a data collection machine that comes with a vacuum.