They went after him.
They went after all of us.
There's no family in American history that has taken more
arrows in the back than the Trump family.
Every single time- >> Poor Trump Family.
Now Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago was raided by the FBI.
His residence at Mar-a-Lago, specifically, in Palm Beach and
this was following the FBI obtaining what's referred to as a warrant which
needs to be signed by a federal judge.
And in order to get that warrant, there needs to be probable cause
presented to the judge doing the signing of the warrant.
So this was not some unilateral Biden politically motivated investigation.
It was an investigation, according to what the authorities are telling us, into
Trump's massive mistake in taking home classified documents from the White House.
He is not supposed to do that, that breaks certain laws and so
this investigation is ongoing.
I'm going to speculate here that there might be more to the investigation
than what federal officials are leading on.
We'll get to that in just a moment but, first, the details.
Sources told ABC news the search warrant was related to 15 boxes of documents
trump took from the White House.
Two more Mar-a-Lago resort following the end of his presidency.
During the FBI search, Monday morning, the agency was verifying that no
other documents were still at the resort after the National archives,
retrieved the documents in February.
Now, right wingers have been losing their minds over this.
Because they're arguing, well, they had already gone to Mar-a-Lago in February.
They had already gotten their hands on those 15 boxes of documents.
Why did they have to do this?
Well, there was, according to the authorities, some suspicion that
Trump had additional documents that he was not being forthright about.
And, so, they conducted this raid to see if those documents existed.
And to be clear, back in February, the National Archives asked the Department of
Justice to investigate whether Trump had broken the law.
When he took those classified documents home with him.
There's something known as the Presidential Records Act and
that requires the president to leave these classified documents and
all these documents in the White House to be archived.
Now, what is that act?
In the 1970s, the Presidential Records Act requires presidents and
White House staff to preserve official documents.
And communications including gifts received in office, letters, emails,
text messages.
And social media posts and
turn those items over to the archives at the end of a presidential term.
And, by the way, in the spring, according to sources who spoke to the press,
a small team of agents went to Mar-a-Lago enquiring about the documents he took
with him.
The agents went through and reviewed some documents with Trump's attorneys
present; Trump himself was also present.
Now when he came to this raid, which occurred yesterday, Trump was not there.
He was, actually, in New York at the time.
And a senior official briefed on Monday's events.
Told ABC news that the Secret Service was notified by the FBI
a short time before the agents arrived that they would be coming.
So there was some notice, it's not like this was a surprise.
The Secret Service validated the search warrant and facilitated
entry into the residence in accordance with a court order, the official said.
Secret Service agents were not involved in the search.
Now, why would they need to do this raid?
Well, Trump is known to destroy documents.
You have individuals who worked in his administration who had said as much.
Just recently, Maggie Haberman over at the New York Times had provided evidence of
documents that were put in the toilet.
Which she held onto until she was ready to promote her upcoming book,
which is Par for the Course with the Washington elite.
It's incredibly frustrating but that's what's going on here.
There's a person, former president, who clearly broke the law and
he's being investigated for it.
And I wish that we applied this standard to everyone in positions of power.
>> Yeah, so look, let's talk about what it is and what it isn't.
So the right winger instantly says, it's to target him politically.
And they have all sorts of kooky theories that we'll get to later in the show.
But they never say, no, it's okay to take documents and rip them up.
Well, why are you taking any documents from the White House?
It's not a thing you should be allowed to do and you're not allowed to do it,
it's against the law.
So why are you hiding them in the basement of Mar-a-Lago?
And then when the FBI looks at them, so the documents are ripped.
Is it like, I didn't like that resort or recipe, rip.
Okay, and the FBI's raiding his house because they,
where's the carbonara recipe, okay?
You weren't supposed to take that from the White House?
You took a couple of antique plates.
No, it's, obviously, very serious.
Otherwise, the FBI is not gonna raid the house of a former president.
Our government officials almost never ever hold the elites accountable.
So, it's not like, we're gonna just do it on a whim.
We're gonna do it on irrelevant stuff.
No, think about the underlying reason why they're going in there.
Is it just the documents?
By the way, we don't know that either.
It could be that they were looking for evidence on January 6th.
And it one of the key piece of evidence is the war in itself.
Now here's the interesting part, the government says until our investigation is
over, we're not gonna show you the warrant and
why we actually went in there because we're doing an investigation.
Now Donald Trump says, this is a travesty, it's worse than Watergate all of us.
Acolytes of supporters on the internet are saying,
the FBI is trying to assassinate him, lunatic stuff, right.
But Donald Trump has the warrant?
>> [CROSSTALK] >> No hold on.
>> Yeah.
>> He could just show it right now and then we'll know what it was about.
>> Good point.
If turns out that it's nothing and they were looking for the risotto recipe,
it'll be in the warrant.
And then he could humiliate the FBI.
And then, right.
We will celebrate.
Why isn't trump showing the warrant?
Maybe because the warrant because maybe the warrant is about super serious
crimes and he's embarrassed and wants to hide that.
Show the goddamn warrant.
>> The long form version of it.
>> Yeah.
>> Okay. >> [CROSSTALK]
>> Why won't he show it?
>> But you're right.
Look, for me, I have no loyalty to any political
official from any political group, okay.
So, if you had former President Barack Obama taking boxes of
classified documents home with him, then he should be investigated.
But that is not what happened.
That's what Donald Trump did.
And there was evidence in the form of testimony,
in the form of pictures that we just recently saw from Maggie Haberman.
Indicating that Trump likes to destroy documents.
He likes to flush him down the toilet.
Which, by the way, it really does put new meaning behind his complaints about
toilets not flushing appropriately in the White House, just saying.
>> I called that from day one.
You heard it on the air.
I said, why is he randomly talking about toilets flushing the white house in
the middle of a press conference, having nothing to do with that?
Cuz the idiot's been trying to destroy evidence the entire time.
Guys look, I don't understand the right wing at all.
And I know mainstream media does the same thing.
They pick a side and then they're completely blind to their own side.
So, if you said to me, hey Bernie's president and he's randomly ripping
up national archives and he's stuffing him in the toilet and flushing it.
I'd be like, whoa, what the hell is Bernie hiding?
Jesus Christ, that sounds like what somebody who's guilty would do.
And I'd be really worried about what Bernie did.
The right wing looks out there, you should,
you gotta rip up the classified documents.
You gotta flush and if they're really incriminating but they're not,
they're perfectly innocent then you forced them down the toilet.
Of course you do.
And the right wing media, you turn to Hillary Clinton and they're,
well the emails.
Well, to be fair, they hit her a lot on the emails but if they had raided
Hillary Clinton's at home, would the mainstream media be outraged?
My guess is they would have been fuming, right.
Cuz they're all blinded to their own side.
I don't care.
Yeah, would you want Hillary Clinton's emails?
Since she deleted emails for the FBI to raid and try to get those emails.
Yeah. >> Yeah, do the raid.
I don't care.
>> Why not?
>> [CROSSTALK] >> People in positions of power like this?
Look, take a step back for a second because I wanna to make a broader point.
What's troubling to me about the reaction that we're seeing by
ordinary right wing voters is that they are willingly providing cover for
the potential criminality of powerful people.
And they see everything through the lens of left versus right, okay?
The right needs to own the libs, own the Libs, I don't care.
But what you're doing is, again, providing cover for
people in positions of power and their potential criminality.
So, to me, the important thing is it's not just about Trump,
it's about actually pushing for a system that fairly and
accurately targets individuals with probable cause in mind, of course.
Who have potentially committed crimes.
That includes individuals in the executive branch who have committed war crimes, for
instance.
And I think it should extend to people in the financial sector who are in incredibly
powerful.
So if they trigger an economic collapse through their greed and
their fraud, they should suffer consequences.
The idea that we should provide cover or protection for
a powerful member of the executive branch or
someone in politics just because we happen to agree with them.
Generally speaking, policy wise, whatever it is that they like about Trump,
it's just wrong, right.
Because you have to have a justice system that treats everyone equally, okay?
For the longest time, and still today,
we still have this justice system that targets the powerless and
allows the elite to get by with any type of criminal act they wanna commit.
And it's unacceptable.
>> Every bribe that every politician takes, seven Democratic senators
just totally utterly sold you out by creating a $35 billion loophole for
Wall Street because they got paid $1.4 million.
And I was like, you have that investigative?
Goddamn right I do.
And mainstream media goes, don't!
Those are beloved Democratic Senators, they're wonderful people.
Those are not bribes.
Those are just contributions out of the goodness of the private equity
bankers hearts.
So, yeah, both are nuts.
Mainstream media defending Democrats and elites overall are nuts.
They live in an alternate reality where criminality is totally acceptable as long
as someone in the establishment does it.
And the right wing guys, you guys are, how many crimes does Trump
have to commit before you go, hey, maybe I don't want a criminal as my leader.
But they see, they're, the FBI raided his home.
I love him more.
Warrants don't get put out unless a judge okays it.
A warrant against the former president has got to be a very serious issue for
the FBI to pursue it and for the judge to say okay to it.
I know you live in an alternate reality.
There, Newt Gingrich said today, they're there to plant the evidence.
>> Come on.
>> You guys are lunatics, you've lost your goddamn minds.
Honestly, we're the only ones telling the truth.
Mainstream media and right wing media they've picked their sides and
they tell ridiculous stories to protect their own elites.