Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt conceded on Sunday that Donald Trump should have returned the documents he took after leaving office, which led to the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago

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He also questions the timing of the search and why the FBI waited until
right before the midterms when the issue has been ongoing for over two
years now. Pretty sure I know the answer to that question...

He also discusses the fact that many of us will soon have student loan
debt that we did not have before.


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On 29 Aug 2022, Mike Powell said the following...

Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt conceded on Sunday that Donald Trump should have returned the documents he took after leaving office, which led to the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago
He also questions the timing of the search and why the FBI waited until right before the midterms when the issue has been ongoing for over two years now. Pretty sure I know the answer to that question...

Do you, though? When considering how long the FBI waited, have you also considered how long they *didn't* wait? Have you considered that the search
of Mar-a-Lago would have been much more politically effective as an "October surprise?" The issue has been going on for two years now, but that's
irrelevant to the timing of the execution of the search warrant. The
government spent time trying to negotiate with Trump for the return of the documents (all of them), and then a subpoena was issued in the spring of
2022. Failure to respond to the subpoena brought a visit by federal agents in Jnue of 2022 when some, but not all, of the documents were retrieved.

Trump had an opportunity two months before the search warrant was executed to return all of the documents. And you think it was the FBI stretching out the timeline? It was all Trump.

Jeff.

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On 29 Aug 2022, Mike Powell said the following...

Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt conceded on Sunday that Donald Trump should have returned the documents he took after leaving office, which led to the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago
He also questions the timing of the search and why the FBI waited until right before the midterms when the issue has been ongoing for over two years now. Pretty sure I know the answer to that question...

Hmm. Who would do such a thing? Oh, wait...

"So now it comes out, conclusively, that the FBI BURIED THE HUNTER BIDEN
LAPTOP STORY BEFORE THE ELECTION knowing that, if they didn't, 'Trump
would have easily won the 2020 Presidential Election.'" -- Donald Trump

1. The allegation that the FBI buried the Hunter Biden laptop story comes
from the misinformation that the FBI told Facebook to limit the reach of the story. In fact, Facebook independently made that decision because of similarities it bore to known Russian disinformation.

2. Trump was clearly counting on the FBI investigation of the Hunter Biden laptop story to help him in winning the election, since he claims that "burying" it kept him from winning. And this, ironically, is exactly what
he's accusing the FBI and Democrats of doing with regard to the 2022
mid-terms. Do I detect a double standard?

3. Trump could have short-circuited this whole thing 2 months ago by
complying with NARA requests to return all documents that Trump shouldn't
have had. In failing to do so, Trump brought the FBI search on himself.

Jeff.

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