"The FBI Is Corrupt": Mark Levin Goes Nuclear Over Trump Raid, Slams ‘Silent’ GOP Leadership
Fox News host Mark Levin went nuclear on Monday night in response to the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence on Monday, reportedly in connection with documents that the former president took home after leaving office in 2021.
"This was well orchestrated, so this has been going on for weeks," Levin told host Sean Hannity. "Now, you keep asking your guests, what’s the justification? There is no justification. What’s he going to say tomorrow, the attorney general? Here’s my guess: ‘We’ve been negotiating with Trump and his lawyers since February when we found out they had this information. We were getting nowhere, and then we know or we heard that some documents were being destroyed."
Levin also noted that photos shared by New York Times columnist Maggie Haberman purporting to show official documents with Trump’s handwriting on them in White House toilets.
(Except… it isn’t Trump’s handwriting)
Is there a Toiletgate stenographer out there who’d like to explain this?
"There is no justification for sending 30 friggin’ FBI agents to the former president’s compound in Mar-a-Lago in early morning and conducting themselves this way or in any other cases in which they’ve done exactly the same thing," Levin continued, adding "The FBI is corrupt."
Levin called it "the worst attack on this republic in modern history," before slamming GOP leadership. (h/t Mediaite)
"This is the worst attack on this republic in modern history. Period," he said. "And it’s not just an attack on Donald Trump. It’s an attack on everybody who supports him. It’s an attack on anybody who dares to raise serious questions about Washington, D.C., and the establishment in both parties. I haven’t heard a damn thing from the Republican leadership in the Senate! Have you? Not one of those guys has put out a statement. Because they’re weak. That’s why."
The Great One Mark Levin goes SCORCHED EARTH over FBI Raid of Trump: “This is the worst attack on this Republic in Modern History” ? pic.twitter.com/aR0bd2UfGg
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It didn’t take 24 hours before the Hollywood lefties openly celebrated the FBI raid on Trump’s Mara-Lago resort. Here are some of the worst celebrities cheering a political attack on a former president.
Former canceled comedian Kathy Griffin celebrated the FBI Raid and said conservative commentator Glen Beck needed to get help. Isn’t this the person who pretended to decapitate Trump as a joke?
Um…get help glen. pic.twitter.com/xDyiibAjHE
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) August 9, 2022
Actor and guitarist Stevie Van Zandt supports the crazy idea that DeSantis cooperated with the FBI for this raid. Just when I thought the takes couldn’t get worse, they prove me wrong!
Who’s the happiest dude in America tonight? Little Hitler DeSantis. I’m sure he gave the FBI all the cooperation they needed!
— ?Stevie Van Zandt☮️ (@StevieVanZandt) August 9, 2022
“Conservative” Ana Navarro-Cardenas went to Twitter to portray Trump as an insane insurrectionist and criminal.
For all the hypocrites making an absurd comparison now, 3rd world dictators:
Appoint useless relatives to gvt. jobs
Pardon their criminal cronies
Hold military parades to feed their ego
Treat free press as enemy
Are above the law
Stay in power thru insurrections
Sound familiar?
— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) August 9, 2022
Related: ‘Weaponized Politicization’ Of DOJ : GOP Threatening to Probe Garland Over Trump Raid
Comedian and director Michael Rapaport tweeted a weird video of himself cheerfully laughing to Dan Bongino’s reaction to the raid. Are you sure the conservatives are the crazy ones?
They’re crying & I’m laughing!!
Brand new @iamrapaport podcast is live & breaking it alllllll down!https://t.co/ymVEj6efS8 pic.twitter.com/uXN63CGptO
— MichaelRapaport (@MichaelRapaport) August 9, 2022
Finally, comedian Billy Eichner posted a video of himself feeling awesome after the FBI raid. I wonder where the joke is in this tweet.
The MAR-A-LAGO raid making me feel like…. pic.twitter.com/WeDSUKAKbH
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) August 9, 2022
There’s no surprise that the lunatics in Hollywood are cheering this event. They’ll cheer all attacks on Trump, even at the expense of justice and the constitution.
Cuomo — who stepped down in 2021 in disgrace after being accused of sexual harassment by multiple women — has reportedly claimed that his own run-in with the law that led to his resignation was politically motivated. Cuomo — an outspoken Trump critic — now says that the DOJ risks undermining the January 6 Committee’s investigation into the president’s involvement in the protest that turned into a riot over the results of the 2020 presidential elections without transparency.
“DOJ must immediately explain the reason for its raid & it must be more than a search for inconsequential archives or it will be viewed as a political tactic and undermine any future credible investigation & legitimacy of January 6 investigations,” Cuomo tweeted.
DOJ must immediately explain the reason for its raid & it must be more than a search for inconsequential archives or it will be viewed as a political tactic and undermine any future credible investigation & legitimacy of January 6 investigations.
There were dozens of more similar tweets in response to Cuomo, but so far, the DOJ and the FBI have refused to comment.
Meanwhile, the White House has claimed that it was completely unaware that the execution of the search warrant would occur.
According to multiple reports, the White House said it learned about the raid on Twitter, at the same time the media did.
New York Times reporter Jonathan Martin tweeted Monday night, “Senior White House officials found out about the FBI’s Mar a Lago raid on Twitter, had no notice, per source familiar.”
CBS News reporter Ed O’Keefe said a top Biden official told him the same thing.
“No advance knowledge. Some learned from old media some from social media,” O’Keefe quoted a senior administration official when asked about the event.
In a lengthy statement, Trump initially announced the dramatic raid decrying what he characterized as a political move.
The investigation is reportedly centered around classified material Trump brought to Mar-a-Lago from the White House.
Liberal attorney Alan Dershowitz condemned the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago Tuesday as "unconstitutional."
The FBI raided Mar-a-Lago on Monday to reportedly retrieve classified documents that former President Donald Trump allegedly took from the White House and stored at his south Florida home.
The raid ignited a political firestorm, and Republicans accused the Justice Department of taking politically motivated retribution against Trump.
What did Dershowitz say?
Speaking with Glenn Beck on the "Glenn Beck Radio Program," Dershowitz — a constitutional scholar and former Harvard Law School professor — described the raid as "absolutely outrageous and unconstitutional."
"I’ve litigated dozens of cases on the Fourth Amendment. And I’m a liberal Democrat, who voted for Biden and against Trump," Dershowitz said. "But this raid is absolutely outrageous and unconstitutional."
According to Dershowitz, law enforcement should not conduct a raid unless they have "exhausted all other possibilities" to retrieve evidence. The most obvious evidentiary retrieval method is a subpoena, Dershowitz explained, but it is not clear whether one was issued in this case.
At any rate, if Trump did remove classified documents from the White House, raiding his residence is not an appropriate retrieval method, Dershowitz told Beck. What if the FBI agents tasked with conducting the raid lacked sufficient security clearance to be in possession of the documents?
"This is exactly the kind of thing that needs a document-by-document analysis — by a judge. Not the FBI coming in and sweeping everything together, breaking into a safe," Dershowitz said.
Even more important, Dershowitz emphasized the government’s action against Trump has the optics of using a different standard of justice against Trump from the standards levied against other individuals — like Hillary Clinton — who have also been accused of possessing classified information outside the proper channels.
"You must have a single standard of justice," Dershowitz said. "I’m a friend of both Sandy Berger, who was the former national security adviser … and a friend of Hillary Clinton. What they were accused of was exactly comparable. And there were no searches of their houses."
"People who have been found guilty of taking classified material improperly have been given fines. I don’t think there’s ever been a search like this based on the allegations made in this case," he added.
\u201cThe FBI’s raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago was "absolutely outrageous and unconstitutional," attorney @AlanDersh tells me. "The most obvious recourse here was a SUBPOENA."\u201d
Speaking with Newsmax in another interview late Monday, Dershowitz said the raid is more evidence the Biden administration has weaponized the DOJ.
"A raid is supposed to be a last resort," Dershowitz explained. "But this administration has used the weaponization of the justice system against its political enemies. It’s arrested people, denied them bail, put them in handcuffs — used all kinds of techniques that are not usually applied to American citizens."
Although the raid itself indicates that a federal judge agreed that investigators had secured probable cause that some crime had been committed, Dershowitz said the government will eventually need to prove the raid was justifiable.
"The government will have to show a court eventually that they exhausted all other possibilities or they had a reasonable basis for believing the evidence would be destroyed if it were sought in the normal legal course of events through subpoena," he said.
"Unless there is evidence that we’re not aware of, this is improper, and it is misconduct," Dershowitz declared. "We have to find out what the facts are. But we have to make sure the shoe fits on the other foot, that we want to make sure what’s being done here is something that Democrats would not oppose if it were being done to Democratic operatives as well. I don’t think it passes the test."
"This is improper, it is misconduct": Alan Dershowitz on the FBI’s raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago www.youtube.com
