If the time of search is not negotiated beforehand, and the location is occupied at the time the search warrant is served, then it is legally considered a raid. When right wing media, left wing media, republicans, democrats, independents, law enforcement, and lawyers call it a raid, they are using the term correctly.
Lawyers notes show that Trump was warned about the Mar A Lago action months ahead of time. So if you are arguing the technicality that the precise time was not established, I'll concede the technical point. But this legally technical definition is not how the use of the word is being used by the extremist right wing
You are referring to this story where a lawyer mention that a raid was a possibility, and ABC News did use the word "raid".
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Putin never called me a racist...Alexei Navalny, galvanizing opposition leader and Putin’s fiercest foe, died in prison, Russia says
Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died Friday in the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence, Russia’s prison agency said. The stunning news — less than a month before...www.yahoo.com
Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died Friday in the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence, Russia’s prison agency said. He was 47.
The stunning news of Navalny’s death — less than a month before an election that will give Putin another six years in power — brought renewed criticism and outrage directed at the Kremlin leader who has cracked down on all opposition at home.
MAGA so jealous of russia being able to treat journalists this way.
And the parts of Moscow that the FSB allowed me to see from my limo after I kissed Putin’s ring didn’t have any blacks, Hispanics, or homeless people. So Russia seems pretty nice!
But fish! Millions of Fox News addicts and Trump cultists feel like the Biden family is a great crime family. Many feel like Burisma and Hunter and The Big Guy committed a lots of criming. And many feel like Trump won in 2020. Don’t we have to pander and coddle these people? After all, they might commit more insurrection if they get big angry again.Sean Hannity and right-wing media claimed the ‘Biden crime family’ took millions in bribes. Their narrative just fell apart
Hannity’s program served as the primary vehicle for driving the narrative to the GOP base, but the informant made the whole story up, federal authorities said.
For some time now, Fox News and the broader right-wing media machine have accused Biden and his son Hunter of engaging in an illicit $10 million bribery scheme to enrich themselves and sell out America. The tale, as it goes, claimed that an executive at the Ukrainian energy company Burisma paid for access to then-Vice President Biden to improperly wield his influence and help squash an investigation led by a Ukrainian prosecutor into the company.
Evidence of the bribery scheme has always been thin, at best, But MAGA Media personalities like Sean Hannity quickly shifted into hyperdrive last year when a supposedly “highly credible” FBI informant claimed to have smoking gun evidence of the conspiracy.
The emergence of a confidential FBI informant coursed through right-wing media, where talking heads and outlets spotlighted the claims as damning evidence of criminal wrongdoing. It spawned scores of articles. Hundreds of Fox News segments. Republican lawmakers like James Comer and Jim Jordan, eager to bathe in the media spotlight, appeared on radio and television programs to stoke the conspiracy flames and demand investigations.
Hannity’s program served as the primary vehicle for driving the narrative to the GOP base. On his Fox News program alone, the claims formed the basis for a staggering 85 segments in 2023 alone. Hannity indicated to his millions of nightly viewers that Biden had been “compromised,” using the informant claims to declare the president was “very credibly accused of public corruption on a scale this country has never seen before.”
Meanwhile on Capitol Hill, Comer, who chairs the powerful House Oversight Committee, used the claims being extolled in right-wing media to accuse the FBI of engaging in a coverup and attempted to construct a corruption case against Biden. Those actions were then celebrated in right-wing media. And on and on the feedback loop went.
The problem? The informant, Alexander Smirnov, made the whole story up, federal authorities said Thursday, arresting the 43-year-old at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas.
Special counsel David Weiss, who served as a Donald Trump -appointed U.S. attorney before assuming his current role, charged Smirnov with lying to the FBI and falsifying records. Smirnov, an indictment said, provided “false derogatory information” about Biden to the law enforcement agency. His “story to the FBI was a fabrication, an amalgam of otherwise unremarkable business meetings,” it said.
“In short, the Defendant transformed his routine and unextraordinary business contacts with Burisma in 2017 and later into bribery allegations against [Joe Biden], the presumptive nominee of one of the two major political parties for President, after expressing bias against [Joe Biden] and his candidacy,” the indictment continued.
The charges dealt a blow to the narrative Fox News had championed on its air and Republicans had pressed in Congress. But the same network that had hyped Smirnov’s claims against “the big guy,” suggesting they formed the basis of a monumental scandal that would overshadow Watergate in the history books, suddenly showed little interest in the story.
In the hours after the Weiss indictment, there was scant coverage of the development on Fox News. Most notably, Hannity didn’t bother to mention to his loyal audience that the narrative he had been tirelessly peddling to them had fallen apart. Instead, like the rest of the right-wing network’s dishonest stable of prime time talk hosts, he ignored the story.
The stunning demise of the claim is just the latest in a larger pattern from Fox News and the broader right-wing media ecosystem in which it operates.
Time and time again, MAGA Media figures have hyped dishonest narratives and conspiracy theories to their sizable audiences, only to look away when they later collapse. Just last year, Fox News paid a record $787.5 million for its promotion of election lies. It never ran a retraction on its air and executives have maintained that they are proud of the network’s 2020 coverage.
It’s a record that plays on repeat. By the time the truth can catch up to the bogus claims spreading in right-wing media, the narrative has already been set and the outlets have moved on to the next supposed scandal.
FAKE NEWS!
Wonder why Tucker didn’t talk about this repression in Russia? Russia sucks.Alexei Navalny, galvanizing opposition leader and Putin’s fiercest foe, died in prison, Russia says
Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died Friday in the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence, Russia’s prison agency said. The stunning news — less than a month before...
Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died Friday in the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence, Russia’s prison agency said. He was 47.
The stunning news of Navalny’s death — less than a month before an election that will give Putin another six years in power — brought renewed criticism and outrage directed at the Kremlin leader who has cracked down on all opposition at home.
MAGA so jealous of russia being able to treat journalists this way.
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Grifter gonna grift.
The decline of religion chart is missing numbers on the Y axis. Hard to know if it meaningful without that,This Christian Nationalism stuff is so dumb. Brain rot like the above movie skip right over the inconvenient statistics to show fanatics saying fanatical things. Surprise! There are fanatics saying fanatical things in almost every interest group.
Here are the statistics: The person most likely to be a Christian Nationalist in America today is a Black Woman over the age of 65. The idea is also steadily dying out in America as seen by the steady decline with youth.
None of this should come as even slightly surprising for anyone paying even moderate attention to history. A hundred years ago the Christian Nationalist KKK was a powerful force pounding burning crosses into people's front yards while the US President was showing Birth of a Nation in the White House. Today religion is dying out, and most of the high profile racist episodes end up being hoaxes.
Take the deal! Take the deal! Take the deal!John Oliver offering Clarence Thomas $1M a year to resign from Supreme Court
Comedian and “Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver is urging Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign, offering him $1 million per year to do so. Oliver railed against the conserv…thehill.com
Damn I'd leave so fast they'd see the cartoon dust image of me in my chair for weeks.
It’s also an almost “too good to be true” vehicle to support an Americanized fascism. Fascism always reflects unique aspects of the society in which in grows, and it’s a match made in heaven. Wrapped in a flag, carrying a cross.
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