Of course, I support it. If you don’t support it, you don’t believe in the rule of law. Remember that they may not have found what they were looking for, and the search may be all for not.
A judge permitted them to do what they did, and NOBODY is above the law, not even an imbecile ex-president who lies about everything.
That’s the “pivot” that everyone talked about but didn’t happen, was it not?
Perhaps the humiliating spectacle of going to prison would be the pivot that brings about a positive change in Trump.
It’s an experiment I’d like to see tried anyway.
It amuses me that one of the strongest rebukes of this that the GOP can muster is, “If the FBI can do this to Trump they can do it to anyone!” My understanding has always been that they already could do it to anyone. It really should be, “If the FBI can do this to anyone they can do it to Trump!”
No one is above the law. Whatever crime this search and seizure is in reference to, whatever suspect the FBI has, let them get their due process and their day in court, just like everyone else. If this turns out to be a political maneuver to embarrass Trump, then he should simply prove he is not guilty in court and move on, just like anyone else would have to.
If you believe that you don’t understand who he truly is. Trump will lie, cheat, and steal with little or no consequences until his last dying breath… and at that point, his children will take up the mantle.
Conservative approval of the FBI started to drop after Clinton wasn’t charged with anything, and dropped steeply during the Mueller investigation. This latest incident is just meat for the wolves at this point. Meanwhile, liberal approval of the FBI has remained mostly unchanged, although there’s been dips and bumps that probably line up with major news stories involving the FBI – the Comey letter, the Mueller investigation, the Kavanaugh investigation.
Trust in our government institutes is oddly fickle. The FBI had a glamorous beginning under J Edgar Hoover taking on interstate and organized crime. When it came out that Hoover was using the power of the FBI to stalk and harass civil rights and anti-war figures, was there a partisan dip in approval? Or a dip at all? I can’t find any data.
If they would have polled me at that young age, I would have stated a lowering of my approval of the FBI.
What I find funny is that they are tacitly admitting Trump’s wrongdoing. They executed a search and found doucments. The only way that harms him is if they prove he did something illegal.
To be this upset about it, they must really think this will harm him.
Whoosh
I don’t think he knows how. And I suspect it’s too late for him to learn (though, as has been pointed out, quite a few seven year olds do know better).
I don’t think going to prison would be likely to improve him any.
I think he belongs there anyway. After due process of trial, of course.
I suspect that they think (or know) this will harm him; but I don’t think that’s good reasoning.
If I came home to discover the FBI had been through my house while I was out, I’d be pretty upset. And I’ve done nothing whatsoever that would give the FBI legitimate reason to be doing such a thing.
I don’t feel like the poll options provide adequate options.
I’m reasonably comfortable that the FBI will prove to have had justification and so, in that respect, I support the action. However, they will still need to prove the matter and that’s not optional.
I don’t support anything the FBI does until I see the evidence.
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Let me just mention that Hilary was advised by one of Bush’s secretaries of state not to depend on the state department’s email server but to use her own.
I guess I had assumed that the OP was asking “Do you support the search (assuming that it has been carried out in proper accordance with legal and protocol requirements)?”
If so, then yes, the FBI should be able to execute any search warrant on anyone in proper accordance with legal and protocol requirements. And no, they don’t need to “justify it” beyond confirming (and proving, if official investigation becomes necessary) that it was indeed properly authorized and carried out.
If the question was actually “Do you support the FBI doing this even if it was unjustified and/or illegal?”, then hell no, of course I don’t.
The FBI justified it to a judge.
I would guess is that the Trump inner circle is mostly upset by this sign that they are losing their ability to prevent the investigation from reaching them.
I think they assumed that their alliance with the conservative movement would protect them. They could sacrifice a few low-level people and not face the consequences themselves. But now they must be starting to suspect that the Republican party may have decided that they’re the low-level people who will be sacrificed to protect the ongoing interests of the party.
I think this issue is a tempest in a teapot.
Classified information? Unfortunately the Federal government massively over-classifies stuff. And it is well know classified information is not infrequently leaked to the Washington Post, New York Times and other media.
Trump took documents from the White House to Mar-A-Lago which should have been turned over to the National Archives? I have very serious doubts that this was the only copy of such information. I expect a significant fraction of the government employees who looked at the documents kept paper or electronic copies.
Lock him up!
And to all the MAGA’s out there: (redacted). Ashamed to have sunk to their level.
Are they upset, really? Some of them would be concerned that the investigation may involve them directly.
But most are just toadies - they know that to be in Trump’s good books you have to display absolute and unswerving loyalty (you know, like Hitler’s Generals), which includes being “outraged” by any perceived slight of The King.
It’s sad theatre, largely.
If this was something innocuous that got classified as a matter of policy, like soybean harvest projections for 2023, why would Trump, of all people, decide to keep it? Do you really think Trump spent any more time thinking about the vast majority of boring crap the US government as a whole deals with every day?
No, if Trump actually paid attention to it, it’s a safe bet it’s important, because that’s the only thing that would catch his attention.
During my military service, I dealt with lot of highly classified material. All of it was handled in accordance with regulations - I didn’t treat any material that I personally thought was “Over classified” any differently. Not my job to make that call. I’m pretty certain that there weren’t copies floating around unaccounted for, and that is how it should be.
So if anyone mishandles classified material, it should not be overlooked or dismissed lightly. Based on the assumption that search warrants must be approved by a judge, my belief is that there was a valid reason for the search…not matter that it involved a former president.