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Well, I think, historically, it's a big issue because this is the first time a former president's home has ever been invaded. Secondly, it's important because it looks like there's political bias, and the people, in the people that decided to do it. Because you have a whole opposite of what they did with Hillary Clinton, with her e-mails, and they were compromised, and she destroyed some property, and nothing was done, and they negotiated with her, but they didn't invade her home. So what's different now? – Chuck Grassley	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The idea that a president or former could essentially do whatever they want with our nation's secrets poses an incalculable risk to Alyssa Farah Griffin national security, we would know. – Alyssa Farah Griffin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are confronting a domestic threat that we have never faced before -- and that is a former President who is attempting to unravel the foundations of our constitutional Republic, and he is aided by Republican leaders and elected officials who have made themselves willing hostages to this dangerous and irrational man. – Dick Cheney	Found on CNN 1 year ago
PEN America is reeling from shock and horror at the word of a brutal, premeditated attack on our former President and stalwart ally, Sir Salman Rushdie, who was reportedly stabbed multiple times while on stage speaking at the Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York, we can think of no comparable incident of a public attack on a literary writer on American soil. – Suzanne Nossel	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I don't know whether the individual who sent that letter had personal knowledge of what the actual scenario was, but I do think it indicates that there are more individuals besides just the former President who potentially have legal exposure here. – Carrie Cordero	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Just now, the Justice Department has filed a motion in the Southern District of Florida to unseal a search warrant and property receipt relating to a court-approved search that the FBI conducted earlier this week, that search was a premises located in Florida belonging to the former president. – Merrick Garland	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
What I am looking for is the predicate for the search, was the information provided to the judge sufficient and necessary to authorize a raid on the former president's home within ninety days of the midterm election ? I am urging, actually insisting, the DOJ and the FBI lay their cards on the table as to why this course of action was necessary. – Lindsey Graham	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Scott Perry's telephone is maybe for me an even more extreme example than President Trump, they pick a member of Congress somewhat obscure, perhaps less famous than, say, Jim Jordan or Kevin McCarthy or Jim Banks. And they go and strip him of a cell phone under criminal process a day after they've conducted an unprecedented raid on the former president of the United States over, as far as anybody can tell, kind of weak tea allegations or issues about the Presidential Records Act. – Dan Bishop	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Less than a week ago, I expressed serious concern that what little remains of the FBI’s credibility is on the line following its inconsistent handling of politically sensitive investigations, failure to hold its own employees accountable for misconduct and consistent disregard for congressional oversight, last night’s raid on the home of a former U.S. president without explanation will only further erode confidence in the FBI and the Justice Department. – Chuck Grassley	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I would rather cherish nightmares than dreams in life for at least the former has the power to wake me up from my sleep. – Shayan Das	added by shdpoems 1 year ago
I have never had any personal problems with [ Police Chief Josh ] Gibson, but as a former employee of the town, I know how it works there, i immediately knew, this is someone new. She doesn't know what, I call them, the' off the books rules' are. Basically, when she came and got hired, she poked the bear by making him accountable. – Michelle Dawes	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Former President Donald Trump's still the leader of the America First movement, former President Donald Trump is the biggest name. Former President Donald Trump's the visionary behind many of the policies that got Former President Donald Trump elected to the White House. – Marc Lotter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Former President Donald Trump is the biggest name. Former President Donald Trump's the visionary behind many of the policies that got Former President Donald Trump elected to the White House, and when you look at what's going on in America right now, so many people are clamoring for that kind of policy leadership back. They want cheap gas, growing paychecks, soaring stock markets and not what we have right now. – Marc Lotter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
To give voice to that agenda, to lay it out for the congressional midterms and beyond, I think there is nobody better than the former President to be able to do that, what is going to happen next is entirely up to the voters and the President and any other people who might be getting into the race. – Marc Lotter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
And for three hours, the defeated former President of the United States watched it all happen as he sat in the comfort of the private dining room next to the Oval Office. While he was doing that, brave law enforcement officers were subject to the medieval hell for three hours, dripping in blood, surrounded by carnage. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The committee, through witnesses like Cassidy Hutchinson and through the testimony that it has recorded under oath, has painted an extremely strong picture of someone who... was bound to do anything Cassidy Hutchinson could in order to hold onto power, i think the committee has made it much easier for a prosecution to be brought partly because the people of the United States have been more fully informed. You have to get people ready for something as unusual as the prosecution of a former President. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When you hire the former Acting Solicitor General to handle an appeal, it’s a big deal. – Neama Rahmani	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The former President correctly speculated in 2016 that Saudi Arabia knocked down the towers and now The FBI has released the documents to prove him right. – John Bruce Eagleson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Either come over, or sit your fucking ass back down. To former Gen. Michael Flynn at White House meeting, December 18, 2020. – Eric Herschmann	added by anonymous 1 year ago
Coach Gary Moeller went into Ohio, enemy territory, and snatched up two Heisman Trophy winners in less than 10 years, that's pretty significant and that should be part of Gary Moeller legacy. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Former Michigan football coach Gary Moeller watches the second half of an exhibition NCAA college basketball game against Wayne State in Ann Arbor, Mich., Nov. 4, 2013. Former Michigan, Illinois and Detroit Lions coach Moeller died Monday, July 11, 2022. Gary Moeller was 81. The University of Michigan announced Gary Moeller death, and no cause was provided. ( AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File). – Desmond Howard	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
There is a big distance between having resentment toward our association and killing former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, we struggle to understand why this happened. We will cooperate fully with the police to reveal his motive. – Tomihiro Tanaka	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The race is fairly open, especially here in Iowa, there’s a lot of avid Trump supporters and people thankful for what the former president did, but there are also folks who are ready to turn the page. – Bob Vander Plaats	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I was advised by attorneys that this was necessary in order to preserve the pending legal challenge's longevity, following the former President's refusal to accept the results of the election and allow a peaceful transition of power, my views on this matter have changed significantly from where they were on December 13. – Robert Sinners	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We, as we took over the investigation, made it clear to them that they should not be investigating any of these matters. Secondly, we asked that the commanders reach out to current employees as well as former employees to encourage them to participate. So any efforts to intimidate witnesses or prevent them from doing it would be inconsistent with that. – Roger Goodell	Found on FOX News 1 year ago

Well, I think, historically, it's a big issue because this is the first time a former president's home has ever been invaded. Secondly, it's important because it looks like there's political bias, and the people, in the people that decided to do it. Because you have a whole opposite of what they did with Hillary Clinton, with her e-mails, and they were compromised, and she destroyed some property, and nothing was done, and they negotiated with her, but they didn't invade her home. So what's different now?

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The idea that a president or former could essentially do whatever they want with our nation's secrets poses an incalculable risk to Alyssa Farah Griffin national security, we would know.

– Alyssa Farah Griffin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are confronting a domestic threat that we have never faced before -- and that is a former President who is attempting to unravel the foundations of our constitutional Republic, and he is aided by Republican leaders and elected officials who have made themselves willing hostages to this dangerous and irrational man.

– Dick Cheney

Found on CNN
1 year ago

PEN America is reeling from shock and horror at the word of a brutal, premeditated attack on our former President and stalwart ally, Sir Salman Rushdie, who was reportedly stabbed multiple times while on stage speaking at the Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York, we can think of no comparable incident of a public attack on a literary writer on American soil.

– Suzanne Nossel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don't know whether the individual who sent that letter had personal knowledge of what the actual scenario was, but I do think it indicates that there are more individuals besides just the former President who potentially have legal exposure here.

– Carrie Cordero

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Just now, the Justice Department has filed a motion in the Southern District of Florida to unseal a search warrant and property receipt relating to a court-approved search that the FBI conducted earlier this week, that search was a premises located in Florida belonging to the former president.

– Merrick Garland

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

What I am looking for is the predicate for the search, was the information provided to the judge sufficient and necessary to authorize a raid on the former president's home within ninety days of the midterm election ? I am urging, actually insisting, the DOJ and the FBI lay their cards on the table as to why this course of action was necessary.

– Lindsey Graham

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Scott Perry's telephone is maybe for me an even more extreme example than President Trump, they pick a member of Congress somewhat obscure, perhaps less famous than, say, Jim Jordan or Kevin McCarthy or Jim Banks. And they go and strip him of a cell phone under criminal process a day after they've conducted an unprecedented raid on the former president of the United States over, as far as anybody can tell, kind of weak tea allegations or issues about the Presidential Records Act.

– Dan Bishop

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Less than a week ago, I expressed serious concern that what little remains of the FBI’s credibility is on the line following its inconsistent handling of politically sensitive investigations, failure to hold its own employees accountable for misconduct and consistent disregard for congressional oversight, last night’s raid on the home of a former U.S. president without explanation will only further erode confidence in the FBI and the Justice Department.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I would rather cherish nightmares than dreams in life for at least the former has the power to wake me up from my sleep.

– Shayan Das

added by shdpoems
1 year ago

I have never had any personal problems with [ Police Chief Josh ] Gibson, but as a former employee of the town, I know how it works there, i immediately knew, this is someone new. She doesn't know what, I call them, the' off the books rules' are. Basically, when she came and got hired, she poked the bear by making him accountable.

– Michelle Dawes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Former President Donald Trump's still the leader of the America First movement, former President Donald Trump is the biggest name. Former President Donald Trump's the visionary behind many of the policies that got Former President Donald Trump elected to the White House.

– Marc Lotter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Former President Donald Trump is the biggest name. Former President Donald Trump's the visionary behind many of the policies that got Former President Donald Trump elected to the White House, and when you look at what's going on in America right now, so many people are clamoring for that kind of policy leadership back. They want cheap gas, growing paychecks, soaring stock markets and not what we have right now.

– Marc Lotter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

To give voice to that agenda, to lay it out for the congressional midterms and beyond, I think there is nobody better than the former President to be able to do that, what is going to happen next is entirely up to the voters and the President and any other people who might be getting into the race.

– Marc Lotter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And for three hours, the defeated former President of the United States watched it all happen as he sat in the comfort of the private dining room next to the Oval Office. While he was doing that, brave law enforcement officers were subject to the medieval hell for three hours, dripping in blood, surrounded by carnage.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The committee, through witnesses like Cassidy Hutchinson and through the testimony that it has recorded under oath, has painted an extremely strong picture of someone who... was bound to do anything Cassidy Hutchinson could in order to hold onto power, i think the committee has made it much easier for a prosecution to be brought partly because the people of the United States have been more fully informed. You have to get people ready for something as unusual as the prosecution of a former President.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you hire the former Acting Solicitor General to handle an appeal, it’s a big deal.

– Neama Rahmani

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The former President correctly speculated in 2016 that Saudi Arabia knocked down the towers and now The FBI has released the documents to prove him right.

– John Bruce Eagleson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Either come over, or sit your fucking ass back down. To former Gen. Michael Flynn at White House meeting, December 18, 2020.

– Eric Herschmann

added by anonymous
1 year ago

Coach Gary Moeller went into Ohio, enemy territory, and snatched up two Heisman Trophy winners in less than 10 years, that's pretty significant and that should be part of Gary Moeller legacy. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Former Michigan football coach Gary Moeller watches the second half of an exhibition NCAA college basketball game against Wayne State in Ann Arbor, Mich., Nov. 4, 2013. Former Michigan, Illinois and Detroit Lions coach Moeller died Monday, July 11, 2022. Gary Moeller was 81. The University of Michigan announced Gary Moeller death, and no cause was provided. ( AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File).

– Desmond Howard

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There is a big distance between having resentment toward our association and killing former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, we struggle to understand why this happened. We will cooperate fully with the police to reveal his motive.

– Tomihiro Tanaka

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The race is fairly open, especially here in Iowa, there’s a lot of avid Trump supporters and people thankful for what the former president did, but there are also folks who are ready to turn the page.

– Bob Vander Plaats

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I was advised by attorneys that this was necessary in order to preserve the pending legal challenge's longevity, following the former President's refusal to accept the results of the election and allow a peaceful transition of power, my views on this matter have changed significantly from where they were on December 13.

– Robert Sinners

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We, as we took over the investigation, made it clear to them that they should not be investigating any of these matters. Secondly, we asked that the commanders reach out to current employees as well as former employees to encourage them to participate. So any efforts to intimidate witnesses or prevent them from doing it would be inconsistent with that.

– Roger Goodell

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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