Ep. 1552 - The FBI Raids Trump
The Ben Shapiro Show
The Daily Wire
4.4 • 152.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, I was supposed to take this week off completely for the first time in like five years. |
| 0:04.2 | But due to the breaking news on the FBI rating Marlago, the biggest news in years, I'm now signing |
| 0:09.6 | in to comment reporting live here from Israel. So according to the New York Times, former president |
| 0:15.5 | Donald J. Trump said on Monday that the FBI had searched his Palm Beach, Florida home and had broken |
| 0:20.0 | open a safe and account signaling a major escalation in the various investigations into the FBI had searched his Palm Beach, Florida home and had broken open a safe, |
| 0:24.6 | an account signaling a major escalation in the various investigations into the final stages of his presidency, the search, according to multiple people familiar with the investigation, |
| 0:28.5 | appeared to be focused on material that Trump had brought with him to Mar-a-lawville, his private |
| 0:32.3 | club and residence, when he left at the White House. Those boxes contain many pages of classified |
| 0:36.3 | documents, according to a person familiar with their content. |
| 0:39.1 | Mr. Trump delayed returning 15 boxes of material requested by officials with the National Archives for many months, |
| 0:43.9 | only doing so when there became a threat of action to retrieve them. |
| 0:47.2 | The case was referred to the Justice Department by the archives early this year. |
| 0:51.0 | This is an insane thing. |
| 0:52.6 | It is just an insane thing. |
| 0:53.6 | So here is the bottom line here. |
| 0:56.4 | The FBI is not trusted by many, many Americans. I mean, a majority of Republicans do not trust |
| 1:01.4 | the FBI according to polling data. A majority of independents do not trust the FBI, |
| 1:05.5 | according to polling data. What the FBI just did requires extraordinary institutional trust. |
| 1:13.4 | This is an FBI under the auspices of a current administration rating the home of the leader of the last administration and the |
| 1:19.9 | likelyest potential nominee for the opposition come in 2024. It seems like on the face of it, |
| 1:26.2 | banana republic type stuff. It seems like on the face of it, pretextual, |
| 1:29.8 | especially because if you're going to do something like this, there had damned well better be a crime. |
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