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    The raid is part of a “national security investigation in search of classified records,” a person familiar with the matter told NBC News.

    FBI Director Kash Patel tweeted “NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission” at around 7 a.m. ET, the same time his agents reportedly arrived at Bolton’s home in Bethesda, near Washington, D.C.

    Then if someone were to be caught with classified records in the bathrooms and poolside storage rooms at Mar a Lago, they’d be facing some serious legal consequences, right? No one is above the law, right, Kash?

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    Bolton is a massive piece of shit and he deserves to be eaten by the monster he helped create. That said, this is still wrong. Prosecuting critics is not an acceptable fascist escalation just because the target is a fascist. If John Bolton doesn’t have rights, then neither do you.

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      I think we need to call it what it is now - a purge.

      Purges can be both violent and nonviolent. I’d argue that the Trump administration is purging through deportations, litigation, and now raids against detractors. Likely, this style of purging will only escalate towards more violence through the legal system until it reaches an explosive, physically violent moment. We’re not even a year into his term…

      We’ve seen this all before. History doesn’t repeat, but it often rhymes.

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      Perhaps coincidentally, I heard that there have been an unusually large number of rumors of a purge in Russia, from sources who usually don’t comment on such things. I wonder if Trump is just trying to be like his daddy figure?

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    I wonder if the people doing the raiding ever think “hey wait a minute… What’s to stop them from doing this to me in the future”

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    Man

    Trump’s purges of former political allies turned enemies is boring as fuck. Like shit, Heritage Foundation might be the influencers of Nazis, but they certainly are worse than Nazis in every meaning of the word.

    If he’s going to screw us all at least give us a show or get us off you know?

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      Don’t forget the Federalist Society and their decades long campaign to groom law students to be placed in the Supreme Court

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    John Bolton is a staunch imperialist who should’ve been in jail for his role in bush era war crimes and corruption. He collaborated with the first trump regime then had the gall to complain that their actions may not have been entirely above-board.

    If he ends up in jail for running afoul of his ideological proteges it would be as close to poetic justice as we get under fascism.

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      Given how horrible Trump looked the other day, with his drooping eye, I bet the sharks smell the blood in the water.

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    I heard this on the radio this morning and could have sworn they called him Michael Bolton and could not tell if they were doing an office space bit.