On Friday it was revealed that federal agents seized 11 sets of documents during the raid on former president Donald Trump‘s Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago. The haul includes materials marked as “classified/TS/SCI” documents — shorthand for “top secret/sensitive compartmented information.” Other documents were marked “secret” or “confidential.”
After the Monday search, Trump blasted the action as, “a prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for President in 2024,” which is pretty wild considering that at the time, he was one of the few people who knew exactly what the agents had discovered in his home.
And all week, the former president’s allies parroted his lies, blasting the raid as sham. The Log Cabin Republicans had a particularly cringey take.
Some of Trump’s biggest loyalists in Congress were also among those pushing the false narrative. So how are they speaking about the raid after today’s bombshell?
How about we take this to the next level?
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Let’s have a look at the before-and-after tweets from the House of Representatives’ three stooges themselves, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz:
Marjorie Taylor Greene
On Monday, Greene called for the defunding of the FBI.
DEFUND THE FBI!
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene?? (@RepMTG) August 9, 2022
In another tweet, she said, “The FBI is raiding President Trump’s home in Maralago! This is the rogue behavior of communist countries, NOT the United States of America!!! These are the type of things that happen in countries during civil war. The political persecution MUST STOP!!!”
She also posted an image of an upside-down US flag (whatever dog whistle that might be to her followers).
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene?? (@RepMTG) August 8, 2022
Now that it turns out the FBI’s search for classified documents proved fruitful, Greene has done the responsible thing and posted about…a group of high school football players who saved someone from a locked car?
These young men are true heroes!
Putting others above themselves and setting an example for everyone to follow.
Couldn’t be prouder of this group of Rome High School football players!!https://t.co/Ma5g2BP2JY pic.twitter.com/HGthVuMka7
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene?? (@RepMTG) August 12, 2022
Sounds like a nice story and all, but Greene has said exactly nothing about the raid today.
Lauren Boebert
Okay, if Greene isn’t going to acknowledge the GOP elephant in the room, how about Lauren Boebert?
On Monday, the Colorado rep. told her colleagues: “If you’re a Republican with any kind of voice, and not speaking up for President Trump tonight don’t expect any of us to speak up for you when your time comes. You may not realize it yet, but they’re coming for all of us.”
She later posted a video saying she was “pissed” and calling the raid “totally un-American.”
“This is Gestapo crap and it will not stand … I will make sure these tyrants pay the price.”
This #DepartmentOfInjustice must be held accountable.
It was President Trump today, but it’s you next if we don’t take a stand. pic.twitter.com/z9wqynaikg
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) August 9, 2022
Cut to four days later, and as the news of the recovered documents dominates headlines, Boebert thought it was the perfect time to forget about the story altogether and focus on “Bidenflation”!
Biden saying there was 0% inflation in July is like when stores have liquidation sales, mark everything up 100% and then slap a 25% discount sticker on it.
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) August 12, 2022
You really nailed that one, hun.
Matt Gaetz
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, a man who knows a thing or two about FBI investigations, tweeted: “I stand with President Trump” after the raid.
I stand with President Trump!
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) August 9, 2022
He went on Newsmax the next day and said, “If the FBI and the DOJ are cheating to try to ensnare President Trump in criminality, it wouldn’t be the first time they’ve done it and we caught them redhanded last time.”
.@RepMattGaetz: "If the FBI and the DOJ are cheating to try to ensnare President Trump in criminality, it wouldn't be the first time they've done it and we caught them redhanded last time."
MORE: https://t.co/i4w8cEKbZG pic.twitter.com/bC3gbmjvrm
— Newsmax (@newsmax) August 10, 2022
Gaetz also strongly criticized fellow Republicans who wanted to wait and see how the investigation played out before spouting judgement.
Senator Tim Scott’s reaction to the FBI raid on Mar-A-Lago is we should all “let it play out” and see where it goes…
That's exactly what Weak Republicans were saying during the Mueller Witch Hunt! pic.twitter.com/LzWq5Sl9ez
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) August 10, 2022
Now that it has “played out” a bit, what has the lawmaker posted to his official congressional Twitter account?
Nothing at all. Brave.
abfab
Sludgery Taylor Greeen reminds me of Ramtha from Yelm. One m8ther effing crazy beeotch. They even look insane. Scary eyes. They both speak in tounges too! Fascinating.
whereshouldistart
I’m pretty sure that Neanderthal and Michelle Bachman are Siamese twins separated at birth.
They were probably joined at the feet.
whereshouldistart
I did the HORRAY THAT ASSHOLE IS FINALLY GOING TO PRISON happy dance.
Too soon?
maxdadmark
Dan Tracer, if you are going to try and match wits with MTG, you can’t use snark when you don’t know facts. “Whatever dog whistle that is” actually has an official meaning. An upside down US flag signals dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.
shimmymonster
Which absolutely does not apply in this situation, hence the sarcasm.
kish
Lol match wits
Vince
That’s a pretty low bar if ever there was.
gaym50ish
If all of these investigations are witch hunts, they sure are finding a lot of witches!
abfab
If this POS had any brains he would know it was a WARLOCK hunt. But then again, he has no balls and he does act like a castrated pig so there’s that.
gaym50ish
An upside-down flag is a distress signal. Someone needs to call 911 and have the paramedics take Marjorie Taylor Greene away to the loony bin.
Cam
I love the fact that half the Republicans are screaming that the evidence was planted and the others are saying it was declassified.
How do they declassify planted evidence? LOL
I love it when Republicans don’t get their story straight.
dgsea06
Why does someone have to point out that a legal, properly executed federal search warrant is not a “Raid”?
There was no forced entry, Trump’s lawyer was present, she even said he watched the search on cctv from NJ.
The hyperbole is incorrect, inciteful and unnecessary.
LMG
Boebert, Greene, & Gaetz must be constantly sticking their heads in a toilet since their self- generated excrement always comes out of their mouths. And this trio of turds are actually in Congress?! Add them to Ripley’s “Believe It Or Not”.
johncp56
The three horsemen of boobary, we!! pay these ass hats, there needs to be a movie made of them the three stooges of the GOP rapey, bumbles, and Moose knuckle
LumpyPillows
Defund the police was a horrible idea from the left. It is good to know that the right wing nut jobs are dumb enough to copy it with the defund FBI nonsense.
At some point this will have to exhaust them. Defending Trump must be soul draining on a daily basis. Assuming they have souls. Trump still believes the rules do not apply to him. Please show him how very wrong he is.
TomG
They NEVER said “defund”, the said to reallocated funds for intermediaries in things like family disputes so cops could focus on other crimes.
TomG
What these right wing fascists don’t want to accept is that Trump KNEW an hour before that a warrant was granted and they wanted their stuff back. He also observed the entire process via a CCTV system he has. So most, like usual, of what these people claim, is an outright lie.
Den
The issue really is whether they are lying or are just so stupid they believe anything Trump says, and amend their memory/beliefs/position instantly based on his lies. The right seems unable to hold a thought for more than 15-20 seconds, or actually process information themselves.
Jimmynj
Trump (along with his idiot children and their spouses), Greene, Boebert, Gaetz, Gosar and Jordan are all criminals and deserve to spend the rest of their pathetic lives in prison.
miller2900
AMEN!!
teebird
This is all so exhausting. If that mope didn’t have such an ego and had just gone on about his business after losing the election this country would have healed. Instead he had to be the petty man child that he is and now we have a slew of just plain nuts stirring schitt on a daily basis. I have to wonder what these three would’ve done in Congress without grievance politics. Marge has done nothing at all constructive. These clowns have set our country back decades and Trump just keeps throwing gasoline on the fire. I hope Mitch McConnell is happy with where his party is because he could’ve stopped this at one point but I feel it’s too late for that now.
miller2900
Now that I’m officially an “old white guy” it sickens me to see so many absolutely stupid “old white people” that have crawled so far up Trump’s back side that they probably will never see the “light of day” when it comes to any semblance of common sense or intellect. I realize I live in Los Angeles where we have quite the mixed bag of idiots AND decent common sensed people however, I never realized until the con man Trump rose to the highest office in the US, that we have so many people that might as well be brain dead because they have no ability to think for themselves…. let alone have a shred of common sense. Trump’s con man history goes back to at least the 70’s that I’m aware of. Any semi-intelligent adult over the age of 40 should be aware of or remember Trump’s numerous published antics in just about every major publication. That includes the throw away People Magazine, Time, Wall Street Journal, etc. over the decades. How in the hell anyone actually voted for this carney con man for President to begin with has made me lose any faith in the general public. To think that the Republicans were able to take Hilary down who actually would have been good for the United States…. Even with her own issues…. which I have no doubt the majority were manufactured by the GOP. Until the typical voter becomes at least semi-intelligent, for at least the week leading up to voting day prior to casting their votes, we will never, ever be a fully functioning democracy. That thought scares the hell out of me because with the advent of more highly sophisticated software/electronics, we are losing any ASSYbalance of what is reality and what is total BS manufactured and spewed by nefarious actors every day…. both within AND outside our borders.