There’s been an outbreak of schadenfreude after Trump’s home is raided by the FBI – 29 favourite reactions
On Monday, the author of a new book about Donald Trump shared photos appearing to support allegations that the former president flushed notes and documents down the toilets at the White House.
NEW IN AXIOS: Trump denied flushing documents as president, as I learned during reporting last year for CONFIDENCE MAN. A Trump White House source recently provided PHOTOS of paper with Trump’s handwriting in two different toilets via @mikeallen https://t.co/wv6rrupO1n
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 8, 2022
The photos led to a day of mockery.
Who knew that when Trump lamented 'Americans have to flush the toilet 10 to 15 times, as opposed to once’ he was complaining about his own document cover-up?
— Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger) August 8, 2022
Perhaps in future Trump Library museum, visitors will be encouraged to tear up official documents and flush them down a gold toilet.
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) August 8, 2022
First look at Donald Trump’s official Presidential Portrait. pic.twitter.com/pPRucOLaXe
— Jo 🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) August 8, 2022
Our own watergate.https://t.co/s5zuVyQGH4
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 8, 2022
They probably would have led to a second day of mockery, had they not been trumped by news of an F.B.I. raid on Mar-a-Lago.
The FBI executed a search warrant today at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, the former president confirms to CNN in a lengthy statement.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) August 8, 2022
Eric Trump insisted it was in connection to documents he took for his scrapbook, and that the raid was ordered by the White House.
Eric Trump: My father always saves clippings.. you know press clippings, newspaper articles, pictures, notes from us… pic.twitter.com/Q0evuiI2yy
— Acyn (@Acyn) August 9, 2022
Trump Snr issued a fairly long and petulant statement. There’s a ‘Dog Bites Man’ headline, if ever there was one.
Mar-a-Lago raided by @FBI, says former President Trump in a statement. pic.twitter.com/nhwKXbH4ZM
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) August 8, 2022
His faithful legions responded with indignation.
DEFUND THE FBI!
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) August 9, 2022
Tomorrow is war. Sleep well.
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) August 9, 2022
Biden's out of control DOJ is ripping this country apart with how they're openly targeting their political enemies.
This is what you see happen in 3rd World Banana Republics!!! https://t.co/tNIsinyutr
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August 8, 2022
The reactions of those immune to the Trump cult – not a typo – were far more entertaining.
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FBI raids Mar-a-Lago. Game on!!!
— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) August 8, 2022
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Trump personally picked the current FBI director pic.twitter.com/EAkCLchRp4
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 8, 2022
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(Barron not even looking up from his Xbox)
“Safe’s in the back.”— Mike Scollins (@mikescollins) August 8, 2022
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we’re all gonna dress up in prison jumpsuits and stage a mass cry-in until the feds apologize https://t.co/wQMmUEM8D0
— kilgore trout, death to putiner (@KT_So_It_Goes) August 9, 2022
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Make no mistake: This raid is historic in that for the first time there are people at Mar-a-Lago actually doing work for the federal government.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) August 8, 2022
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It’s not a raid, it’s just a normal FBI-executed tourist visit.
— Randy Rainbow (@RandyRainbow) August 9, 2022
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Hunter Biden has been mentioned at least 46 times on Fox News in the few hours since news of the Mar-a-Lago raid broke
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 9, 2022
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I wonder if the FBI found all of his burner toilets.
— Conan O'Brien (@ConanOBrien) August 9, 2022
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look it was for his scrapbook, people. https://t.co/NzfKv7fMq1
— farhad manjoo (@fmanjoo) August 9, 2022
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"First they came for the criminals and I said nothing…
Then they came for the guy who tried to override a democratically held election & sent an armed mob to break into the Capital & hang the V.P. and I was like… sure. That seems like part of the job, FBI. Good work."— Duncan Jones (@ManMadeMoon) August 9, 2022
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BREAKING: Donald Trump's personal library was destroyed in the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago.
Both books are sadly beyond repair, and he hadn't even finished coloring one in yet.
— Translate Things (@TranslateThings) August 8, 2022
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The right went from saying Biden is a barely sentient old man to a Machiavellian mastermind capable of making a Trump appointed Federalist Society FBI director who served under Bush to take down his future political opponent.
In a single day
— The Serfs (@theserfstv) August 9, 2022
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Right now Trump wants to race back to Mar-a-Lago to find out what all the FBI took, but he's afraid to leave Trump Tower for fear the FBI will also raid it once he leaves. He's totally screwed and it's hilarious.
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) August 9, 2022
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I hope someone's grabbing all of these outraged "this is like a police state" tweets for when we discover Trump was selling state secrets to some police state.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) August 9, 2022