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FEDERAL authorities’ persecution of former President Donald Trump did not end with the raid on his Mar-A-Lago residence. In recent days, in fact, it has spread to his allies, strengthening suspicions that the Biden Administration is using his Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI as political weapons.
Following the raid on Trump’s property, allies of the former Republican president have had some curious experiences with the authorities, to say the least. One example is the case of Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who reported that the police had broken into her home two nights in a row for no apparent reason.
Police later clarified that they had responded to two 911 emergency calls allegedly made from Greene’s residence. However, judging from the congresswoman’s statements, the calls appear to have been false alarms.
Raids, subpoenas and seizures against Trump allies
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, one of Trump’s most vocal supporters and who even funded an investigation in an attempt to prove allegations that the 2020 election was rigged, also had the FBI at his residence after receiving a subpoena. Federal authorities, according to Lindell’s complaint, seized his cell phone.
Steve Bannon, former White House strategist for the Trump Administration, was charged with money laundering, conspiracy and fraud in an investigation related to fundraising for the construction of the southern border wall, in what appears to be a far-fetched operation that seeks to put him behind bars.
Bannon also denounced that the FBI had raided the residences of 35 Trump allies and compared the federal authority to the Gestapo.
BOMBSHELL — Steve Bannon broke news that at least 35 Raids were conducted yesterday against Trump allies across the country.
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This was before the New York Times reported that the DOJ had issued about 40 subpoenas against Trump allies and seized the cell phones of two of his advisers, in what the outlet called a “substantial escalation of the investigation into his efforts to subvert the 2020 election.”
“The seizure of the phones, coupled with a widening effort to obtain information from those around Mr. Trump after the 2020 election, represent some of the most aggressive steps the department has taken thus far in its criminal investigation into the actions that led to the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob,” the Times article reads.
After appearing at the Manhattan district attorney’s office, Bannon noted that the charges against him and the FBI raids are part of an intimidation tactic against Trump allies.
All this occurs while the Biden administration increases the aggressiveness of its rhetoric against Republicans, whom it has referred to on multiple occasions, both personally and through its spokespersons, as “extremists”.
Biden has even made a distinction between Trump-supporting Republicans, whom he has practically declared public enemies (and even threatened them with confronting the state’s war power), and “mainstream Republicans.”
With only two months to go before a midterm election in which Republicans could retake control of the House and Senate, with Trumpist candidates vigorously assuming Republican nominations, and amid divisive rhetoric that clearly seeks to intimidate Trump allies and split the GOP in two, coupled with a committee investigation into the events of January 6 on Capitol Hill that has so far yielded no results, it is worth asking: is the Democratic administration using law enforcement like the FBI to minimize the enemy in election season?
