# FBI Search and Seizure at Trump's Mar-A-Lago Residence, August 8, 2022, Case Dismissed July 15, 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [August 8, 2022, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329 "2022-08-08T23:18:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 158
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/3141 "2022-09-22T05:00:01Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Guys. > > Dotard, the First of All Individuals, was just on Hannity and he said… Isn’t the key point that Fox is describing him as “Fmr President Trump” ?! That’s it, the Murdoch has spoken. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/3142 "2022-09-22T05:05:27Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Oh, I didn’t even mention the best part, where Dotard suggests the FBI was looking for… > > Hillary’s emails. > > Not even Hannity could keep his composure. Yes, Trump made that same claim when he called into the Bell Radio Show on Sept 1. A smart Doper pointed it out: 😉 > [@JohnT](#): > > I literally guffawed. > > The disgraced ex-President called into what appears to be a infomercial and claimed that the FBI was actually searching for… get this… > > _Hillary’s emails_ ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/3143 "2022-09-22T05:18:17Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > “You can declassify just by thinking about it.” So, it’s even better than Pharaoh. “So let it be thought of, let it be done.” ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/3144 "2022-09-22T05:26:27Z")
He could give Professor Xavier a run for his money, with those awesome Trumpian mental powers! ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/3145 "2022-09-22T05:56:04Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > “You can declassify just by thinking about it.” Joke’s on him, Biden re-classified everything by thinking about it shortly after taking the oath of office. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/3146 "2022-09-22T06:10:37Z")
Just got home and saw the latest. This silmy motherfucker is finally going down. In his entire slimy life he has slimed his way out of everything. Oh, sure he paid a few fines while leaving his his slime trial behind but nothing that really hurt him. This has probably been mentioned in this thread or another, but this ruling comes on the same day that yet another “witch hunt” lawsuit has been filed in New York, against him and his whole fucking slimy family. It is hard to say how many times in the past 6 years I and others have been confident that he would finally pay. Whether or not a jury will ever convict him is still in doubt, but he will spend the rest of his slimy life in court, raging against the Deep State, when even Hannity (speaking of slime) will no longer give him an interview. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/tTF4gN6XhF0/hqdefault.jpg "Snoopy's Happy Dance") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTF4gN6XhF0) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/3147 "2022-09-22T06:53:36Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I read this as ‘ **spanking** with one voice’. Judge Cannon as their opinion is spoken. ![](https://c.tenor.com/8bStJCK3qw8AAAAd/silence-dune.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/3148 "2022-09-22T06:56:51Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > He could give Professor Xavier a run for his money, with those awesome Trumpian mental powers! The X-President, using his “Idiot Control” mutant powers. [![](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRzPrLAhK3JKzmwoaCPFvpfwEr2h_ScnrtEjQx1tNdC_Q&s) ](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRzPrLAhK3JKzmwoaCPFvpfwEr2h_ScnrtEjQx1tNdC_Q&s) ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/3149 "2022-09-22T09:22:40Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Yes, Trump made that same claim when he called into the Bell Radio Show on Sept 1. A smart Doper pointed it out: Lol, I thought this sounded familiar. Well, telling some no-name podcaster this is one thing, going on Hannity and making the same embarrassing claim is quite another. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/3150 "2022-09-22T11:03:16Z")
By the way, I listened to the interview and in that clip above, Trump makes a not-surprising admission… but I’m not seeing that it’s been picked up. “… youre sending it, to Maralago _or wherever you’re sending it_…” Also… did Hannity really call him ‘dude’? “Wait, you’re not saying you had it, dude.” Listen to his response to the Hillary thing, it sounds like it. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/3151 "2022-09-22T11:35:04Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > They slapped her down, hard. In this section, they made a decision based on one factor, saying she _abused_ her discretion, and then continued “but let’s make the record complete in showing JUST HOW wrong you were” I read through the decision last night and that single line was definitely my favorite. That “for the sake of completeness” bit may be the most low-key brutal phrase I’ve read in a long time. The combination of corruption and aggressive incompetence Cannon needed to exercise in order to make this ruling is just mind-boggling. Too corrupt to serve justly, too stupid to even give it a veneer of jurisprudence. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/3152 "2022-09-22T12:15:32Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > “You can declassify just by thinking about it.” I caught the Hannity interview clip on the TV news this morning where he said that, but my digital antenna reception blips in and out if there’s more than a gentle breeze, so I didn’t hear all of it, and I thought, “did he _ **really** _ say he could declassify documents just by thinking about it? That can’t be what he actually said…_ **can it** _?!?” That seemed like a cartoonishly ridiculous claim even for trump. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/3153 "2022-09-22T12:20:29Z")
I feel like you can’t be asking that question in earnest 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/3154 "2022-09-22T12:30:34Z")
There was an executive order from 2009 regarding how classified documents should be handled. It even goes over steps needed to declassify them. Trump never rescinded that executive order which probably would have made his life easier in this regard. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/3155 "2022-09-22T12:32:32Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > I feel like you can’t be asking that question in earnest 😉 I know, I know. I guess I have some innate sense of what can be reasonably claimed, beyond which is clear insanity, so I have a hard time believing the crazy shit that he says initially, almost as a reflex. Despite the many, many times I’ve heard him say just as crazy or worse and should know better by now. I also keep thinking there will be a final straw, a “Have You No Sense of Decency?” moment where his house of cards will finally collapse, despite all evidence to the contrary. But I think this is it now! The final straw!! or is it? From the CNN article linked below: > The emergency intervention upends a trial judge’s order over those documents that had blocked federal investigators’ work on the documents, and is a strong rebuke of the Trump team’s attempt to suggest without evidence that materials were somehow declassified. Trump’s options to block the criminal investigation are now dimming with one of his only remaining possibilities being _ **an emergency request to the Supreme Court.** _ (Bolded italics mine). I like that paragraph for the most part, but I’m a little concerned about that last part. [https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/21/politics/appeals-court-mar-a-lago-criminal-classified-documents/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/21/politics/appeals-court-mar-a-lago-criminal-classified-documents/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/3156 "2022-09-22T12:34:08Z")
For those plumbing the depths of boredom and/or masochism … > **[The President Executive Order 13526](https://www.archives.gov/isoo/policy-documents/cnsi-eo.html)** > > Classified National Security Information December 29, 2009 Part 1 - Original Classification Part 2 - Derivative Classification Part 3 - Declassification and Downgrading Part 4 - Safeguarding Part 5 - Implementation and Review Part 6- General... ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/3157 "2022-09-22T13:10:46Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > There was an executive order from 2009 regarding how classified documents should be handled. It even goes over steps needed to declassify them. Trump never rescinded that executive order which probably would have made his life easier in this regard. He rescinded it in his mind, which is a thing presidents can do. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/3158 "2022-09-22T13:37:49Z")
" ‘On my first day in office I reclassified everything you took, just by thinking about it’, President Biden tells Trump." > **['On my first day in office I reclassified everything you took, just by...](https://newsthump.com/2022/09/22/on-my-first-day-in-office-i-reclassified-everything-you-took-just-by-thinking-about-it-president-biden-tells-trump/)** > > Donald Trump's insistence that Presidents can change the classification status of documents just by thinking about it, has spectacularly backfired today. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/3159 "2022-09-22T13:54:16Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > " ‘On my first day in office I reclassified everything you took, just by thinking about it’, President Biden tells Trump." Also: > “And if he’s worried about the nation’s prison system, and how he will get on inside, don’t worry, Hillary says you can have the cell you were keeping warm for her.” ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/3160 "2022-09-22T14:01:20Z")
For his next trick, he’ll say he thought about pardoning himself so that counts as a full pardon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329.md?page=157) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329.md?page=159)