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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Mar-a-Lago Raid => Topic started by: mystery-ak on August 12, 2022, 03:34:56 pm
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Chris Wallace: Calling Mar-a-Lago FBI Raid ‘Gestapo’ Tactic ‘Out of Touch with the Reality’
Pam Key 12 Aug 2022
CNN anchor Chris Wallace said Friday on “New Day” that Republicans characterizing the FBI’s action at Mar-a-Lago as a “raid” using “Gestapo” tactics are out of touch with reality.
Partial transcript as follows:
KEILAR: He sort of put out his new talking points. I think if these documents are to be released, which lays the groundwork for this being planted evidence asking, “well, why wouldn’t the FBI allow the inspection areas with our lawyers or others present,” the idea being, “oh, we didn’t have eyeballs on what they were doing, what were they up to?” Do you think, Chris, Republicans who have come out so vociferously, and in some extreme language, supporting Donald Trump, talking about how this is the DOJ being weaponized against him, do you think they’re going to take this leap?
WALLACE: Well, yeah. You know, there’s every indication that some of them will. You know, I mean, look at what happened yesterday, where you have this person who goes to attack, if he’d been able to get in, perhaps to kill FBI agents. And, you know, the thing that was, to quote Simon and Garfunkel, the Sound of Silence. You heard precious little condemnation from people on the right. I read one newsletter. I don’t know if it is literally true, about how few top Republican officeholders in Ohio, this took place in Cincinnati, how few of them condemned the action of Ricky Schiffer, the man who was killed by the FBI after the attack. So do I think that there are a number of Trump supporters who will continue to follow Donald Trump in whatever course he decides to take? Of course.
BERMAN: You know, attorney general, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was earlier and said the same thing. He said, where are the Republicans? At this morning saying, you know, no violence, saying this is wrong, saying what happened in Cincinnati was wrong. He, too, was stunned by the silence there.
WALLACE: Well, I mean, again, we’re talking about a party that is, has hit Democrats for not supporting, backing the blue, for not supporting law enforcement. Here we have people doing their job. And, you know, let’s make it clear again, this was not a raid. This was a very carefully-vetted search. They went to a judge. They got a search warrant. They went in. They apparently had notified the Secret Service at least an hour ahead of time. They specifically, reportedly, were concerned to do it when the former president was not on the premises, and went in and did it. They basically did it by the book. You can argue as to whether they should have done it at all, but they did it by the book. And the idea that this is being seen as some huge, and the word has literally been used, Gestapo tactic by the FBI is just so out of touch with the reality of what happened.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/08/12/chris-wallace-calling-mar-a-lago-fbi-raid-gestapo-tactic-out-of-touch-with-the-reality/
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Good thing there is a news outlet like Brietbart.
Otherwise all 5 CNN+ viewers might hide it from us.
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It was indeed a raid using Gestapo tactics!
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Chris Wallace is out of touch with reality.
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Chris Wallace is out of touch with reality.
Chrissy is the ultimate practioner of nepotistic opportunism.
My bulldog has a better screen presence, and makes more sense too when she speaks.
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Chrissy is the ultimate practioner of nepotistic opportunism.
My bulldog has a better screen presence, and makes more sense too when she speaks.
He has also managed to work himself into complete irrelevance!
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Well the guy who attacked the FBI office was an idiot and probably mentally disturbed IMO, so there's that.
We need to still see exactly what it was Trump was accused of taking because I still haven't seen anything official. The Wa po story doesn't cut it.
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Chris Wallace is out of touch with reality.
Also out of touch with an actual audience, or so I've heard.
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Also out of touch with an actual audience, or so I've heard.
I wonder why we give him one. :pondering:
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I wonder why we give him one. :pondering:
It's fun to watch him say stupid stuff and think people believe him.
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It's fun to watch him say stupid stuff and think people believe him.
OTOH....
Chrissy, single handedly may have altered the election more than anyone else by moderation deflection of the Hunter Biden scandal during the last POTUS debate.
We can not let him off the hook for that.
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His CNN+ audience will lap that up. /s
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Also out of touch with an actual audience, or so I've heard.
:silly:
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His CNN+ audience will lap that up. /s
All dozen or so of them.
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Well the guy who attacked the FBI office was an idiot and probably mentally disturbed IMO, so there's that.
We need to still see exactly what it was Trump was accused of taking because I still haven't seen anything official. The Wa po story doesn't cut it.
While I strongly suspect (given the Dems aptitude for doing stupid things) the raid won't amount to much of anything terribly incriminating, yes, let's wait and see.
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...it's obvious to the smart people...like Chris Wallace.
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It was indeed a raid using Gestapo tactics!
Or KGB tactics
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C'mon Man! Wallace was probably dancing with glee when he heard about the raid, the only reason he is publicly calling it gestapo tactics is to try and curry favor with people on the right that he thought he didn't need anymore.