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Aug 9, 2022Liked by Aaron Rupar

What I see is a lot of fear. Of course, the cult cannot factor in the obvious - that Trump is not the president and that he obviously has been holding onto documents he has no right to keep - and that the FBI has reason to believe he's stashed them at Mar A Lago. Instead, it's a "raid." The cult feels personally violated. Trump is obviously in trouble, because even the FBI cannot request a warrant without probable cause. He's a life-long criminal anyway, so being outraged here is a little bit silly.

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Aug 9, 2022Liked by Aaron Rupar

My fervent wish/hope is that someone or several someones take TFG to court, win, & he (as well as the family) spend lots of time in prison! Thanks, Aaron for this and for all you do to keep us informed.

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Aug 9, 2022·edited Aug 9, 2022

So let me get this straight. There have been all kinds of stories about the Trump family and admin -- most recently, Peter Navarro -- using personal e-mail addresses for government business, and that fucktard traitor Jesse Watters was on TV yelling about "Hilary's server"?

What I wouldn't do to see Jesse Watters on the street.

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Aug 9, 2022Liked by Aaron Rupar

I cease to be amazed that people like McCarthy and the rest of the Minions can’t wait to come to HIS defense but HE would turn on them in a heartbeat ( if they showed any personal moral fiber and would, god forbid, criticize HIM) as he has done to so many of his former “great” guy/women people he “hardly knew”.

Greene, Bobert, Gaetz, and so on are yes-clowns who are the go to sound bites on all that is insignificant and yet here they are…

Keep it up Aaron, November elections are less than 2 months away

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Aug 9, 2022Liked by Aaron Rupar

I’m waiting for Trump to say he hardly knows Mar-a-Lago.

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Aug 9, 2022Liked by Aaron Rupar

I thought news of the raid was amusing but considering Trump is slippery as an eel, I'll believe he gets punished when I see it. But the sheer outrage... ah, that was delicious. It was like Christmas in August.

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Aug 9, 2022·edited Aug 9, 2022Liked by Aaron Rupar

These emptyheaded mouths are on TV outlets that exist designed just for their ill intentioned content. These lies and whataboutisms pay real money (include the super rich Alex Jones). To those not enthralled, those inured by now hopefully, they are funny, funny ridiculous, even when they reveal themselves. They hear only what they want to hear and make stuff up, deflect deflect deflect. It's the "on our side" people, the dividers that are ludicrously going to Make America Great. It could not possibly be that a crime ( one of many) may have been committed by their savior and is being investigated. That's because they cannot fathom honest government, honest legal process, honest people. It has to be them against us.

Pull out old dogs that don't hunt anymore- Hilary and Benghazi (don't forget her emails)- which was much ado about nothing that the NYTimes fell for too in 2016.

Now they appear more clowns and fools- hopefully out of power for good, one by one. You can wish for the orange suits but out of power for good will be enough regarding Trump and his ilk.

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Aug 9, 2022Liked by Aaron Rupar

Appreciate the special edition. It’s safe to say all of Maga is going thru some things. It’s amusing that Tuckems wasn’t on the air last night and also curious. Daily Beast says he’s “shitting” himself over the Jones texts. If that upset his gastros, news of the FBI must’ve really done a number on him. I hope the LEOs are watching closely this time cause there was a lot of lock and load chatter across the board.

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Aug 9, 2022Liked by Aaron Rupar

Do we know if the RNC is still paying tfg's legal bills?

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Aug 9, 2022Liked by Aaron Rupar

These people are goldfish. You cannot apply any linear thinking to them. I’m old enough to remember the 200 headings into Benghazi plus HRC sitting for 12 hours of them.

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I don't usually wake up in the middle of the night, but last night I did and made the mistake of going on Twitter. Where I proceeded to wallow in schadenfreude for three hours. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. Thanks for the update.

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I don't read much news these days. I am seriously burned out and just don't want to spend my time reading about things I can't do anything about. I canceled my subscription to the Times a year ago. And my subscription to WaPo expired last month. I don't miss them, especially the way reader comments seem to be the same crap I see on social media. I read the New Republic, NPR, HuffPost, and that's all, because I don't like feeling helplessly angry. I read less than an hour of news every day, and prefer to read books.

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