# 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:** 66
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/1301 "2022-08-17T18:24:45Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > … habituate to the idea that the GOP is openly supporting folks who’ve been indicted for committing felonies. Let’s not forget that (a) we’re talking _ **multiple** _ potential felonies here – at least four that I know of (Jan 6 insurrection, Georgia election fraud and probably many other instances, Trump Org insurance and tax fraud, and now theft and mishandling of national secrets), and (b) that at least three of these felonies are _ **serious crimes against the United States** _. How anyone could believe that such an individual is fit to run for president is astounding. May as well run Trumpie’s best pal Vladimir Putin for president. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2022, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/1302 "2022-08-17T18:36:43Z")
So the left dislikes it when the Espionage Act is used to squash whistleblowers and prevent government abuses from being made public, but likes it when it’s used to protect national security. What a bunch of hypocrites! ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/1303 "2022-08-17T18:38:43Z")
Yes you’re right. Sorry about that! ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/1304 "2022-08-17T18:39:26Z")
> [@Kron](#): > > I think you mean **PhillyGuy** as the one that brought up how “progressives have long criticized” the Espionage Act. Yes, correct. Sorry to Lightnin’! Too much rushing to post… ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/1305 "2022-08-17T19:17:05Z")
Breathe, dude, breathe! ---
**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:** [August 17, 2022, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/1306 "2022-08-17T19:49:55Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > May as well run Trumpie’s best pal Vladimir Putin for president Never gonna happen. _Vice_-president, maybe but Trump or his sycophants give up the top spot? Never!!1! ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/1307 "2022-08-17T19:53:42Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > How anyone could believe that such an individual is fit to run for president is astounding. It’s easy when you believe all those felony charges are nothing more than a partisan witch hunt. And millions do. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/1308 "2022-08-17T20:03:14Z")
The irony of it all really burns. Vlad of course couldn’t run for president because the Founders were so intensely paranoid of any hint of disloyalty in the person holding the most powerful position in the land that they required any candidate for president to be a natural-born citizen, as well as at least a fourteen-year resident in the country. Yet there is a real possibility that an outright traitor, one who would sell out the country for a few bucks and a hamberder, and who was already president once, may be yet a second time. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/1309 "2022-08-18T00:24:50Z")
Surprise! Trumps having problems finding lawyers. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/dtRfGPtLRKU/maxresdefault.jpg "WaPo: Trump Struggling To Hire Legal Experts Amid Several Investigations") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtRfGPtLRKU) ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/1310 "2022-08-18T00:34:23Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > How anyone could believe that such an individual is fit to run for president is astounding. > > It’s easy when you believe all those felony charges are nothing more than a partisan witch hunt. And millions do. True. The Justice Department is using the standard government corruption investigative strategy of throughly searching to find the greatest crime that the politician under investigation has committed, and charge him with that. Just like he was a corrupt Illinois governor. In this case, I don’t think it will work, because there are too many Trumpers, in the jury pool, who would love a chance to get him off. He’ll win like he won his impeachment trials. If the Justice Department was more partisan, and thus determined to see him punished, they would be looking for a way to get him in jail without going through a jury. Instead they are treating him just like they would a crooked Democrat. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2022, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/1311 "2022-08-18T00:36:58Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > It’s easy when you believe all those felony charges are nothing more than a partisan witch hunt. Witch hunt it may be but we keep finding witches. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/1312 "2022-08-18T00:39:02Z")
I have a certain "willingness to consider” that it’s all a witch hunt. - Pence the Loser. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/1313 "2022-08-18T00:40:07Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > “I’m using E-Verify on just about every job,” Trump told MSNBC host Chris Matthews during a televised “town hall” in March 2016, later adding, “I’m using E-Verify, and I’ll tell you, it works.” “It’s great for finding suckers who I can screw over and sic ICE on them if they complain…” ---
**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:** [August 18, 2022, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/1314 "2022-08-18T00:41:24Z")
Now that they have all that shit back… > ---
**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:** [August 18, 2022, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/1315 "2022-08-18T00:58:47Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Does anyone today argue that Nixon did nothing wrong? There was a book written 30 years ago that argued that it was John Dean in the Watergate with a callgirl: > **[Silent Coup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Coup)** > > Silent Coup is a book written by Len Colodny \[1938 - 2021\] and Robert Gettlin that proposed an alternate explanation for the Watergate scandal that led to the 1974 resignation of US President Richard Nixon. The first edition was published in 1991, followed by an expanded second edition in January 1992. > The prevailing narrative is that Nixon and his high-ranking associates covered up a 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in the Watergate Hotel which had been unde... I have seen the occasional reference to Nixon being the first victim of the Deep State, but don’t have any links. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/1316 "2022-08-18T01:00:02Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > there are too many Trumpers, in the jury pool, who would love a chance to get him off. The women, certainly. The men… They might have a moment of pause. But only a moment. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/1317 "2022-08-18T01:09:17Z")
Dear Penthouse forum, I never thought I’d find myself in a situation like this with the former guy. But there I was. With the chance to get him off… ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/1318 "2022-08-18T01:57:11Z")
> [@dougrb](#): > > Surprise! Trumps having problems finding lawyers. Aren’t there any graduates of trump university available? ---
**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:** [August 18, 2022, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/1319 "2022-08-18T01:58:17Z")
don’t think it had a Trump Law School. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/1320 "2022-08-18T02:04:59Z")
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