# FBI Search and Seizure at Trump's Mar-A-Lago Residence, August 8, 2022, Case Dismissed July 15, 2024

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
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**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")\
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**Post date:** [August 14, 2022, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/987 "2022-08-14T15:55:13Z")

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> [@Horatius](#):
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> If, after maybe _months_ of hearing all the evidence against Trump, even the most reasonable Trump supporter will still vote to acquit him purely out of partisan spite, then the US is pretty much doomed no matter what you do.

Most crimes do not result in criminal convictions. I’m sure presidents have gotten away with crimes before, and the republic did not fall.

This does not doom us, or anybody.

Now. a false conviction does doom somebody.

I think that punishing someone with years in prison, because they failed to declassify a paper, when that president could have easily done it, is overreaching.

Now, if he stole government property, like presidential signed letters, that would sell for thousands of dollars at auction, that could be an open and shut case. No need for months of trial time.

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