Hey everybody, welcome to the Weekender edition of the Muckrake podcast. I'm Jody 8 Sexton. I'm here with Nick Housman. We have a jam-packed show. We're going to be unpacking everything that's been going on with the raid at Mar-a-Lago. And there's a lot that has been going on. Before we do that, though, if you are listening to this and you are not already a patron,

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But right now, Nick, we have to talk about the former president of the United States,

Donald John Trump's, just absolutely stupid home of Mar-a-Lago getting raided and everything

that has come afterwards.

Sure. Well, you know, Merrick Garland didn't say anything in this press conference, really,

besides that he approved, which we already knew. There's no way you're ever going to do what

he did or what they did without an approval by Merrick Garland at the very least,

and Christopher Ray, I'm sure, as well. So, yeah, I mean, listen, we are now left to just sort of wonder and speculate and say things

that are way out of bounds, right? Are we allowed to do that?

Well, I'm sure that there's no danger in doing that, particularly if you're the right wing.

And we'll get to that in a second. To go ahead and reset this story so everyone's on the same page, this week,

dozens of FBI agents conducted a search at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.

Before it was all sudden done, and by the way, violated Donald Trump's beautiful safe, beautiful safe.

It turns out that they removed multiple boxes it it as everyone basically knew

almost immediately the focus of this were documents and materials that trump had um how do i put

this charitably lifted uh pilfered uh from white house chaotic Jared January 6 was very chaotic

or January 21st was very chaotic for him.

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