08/16/2022 05:15 CDT

TRUMP SAYS UNPRECEDENTED RAID HAS PUT AMERICA ON EDGE; DOJ REFUSES TO RELEASE JUSTIFICATION FOR WARRANT

TODAY’S TOP TEN

TRUMP URGES CALM AFTER FBI RAID

TRUMP SAYS NATION’S TEMPERATURE has to come down after outrage of FBI raid of his home. Fox News.

DOJ RESISTING RELEASE OF AFFIDAVIT spelling out evidence for Mar-A-Lago raid. Legal Insurrection.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S JAN. 6TH PIPE BOMB story is getting more difficult to believe. revolver.

DID THE FBI RAID ON TRUMP’S HOME increase the chances of a November red wave? The American Spectator.

GIULIANI TOLD HE’S A TARGET OF GEORGIA county DA over “election interference.” ZeroHedge.

14 FBI WHISTLEBLOWERS HAVE COME FORWARD since the Mar-A-Lago raid, Jim Jordan says. Big League Politics.

TODAY IS DAY OF RECKONING for extremely unpopular Liz Cheney in Wyoming. Breitbart.

JENNY BETH MARTIN, ALREADY TARGETED ONCE BY IRS, worries about addition of 87,000 and more political targeting. The Daily Signal.

BIDEN’S CIA DIRECTOR EMPLOYED Chinese Communist Party members while heading DC think tank. Daily Caller.

FORD RAISES ELECTRIC TRUCK PRICE by up to $8,500 after Democrats pass $7,500 EV tax credit. Daily Caller.

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COMMENTARY WORTH READING

• Why Merrick Garland is losing the people. Victor Davis Hanson.
• The green war on clean energy. James Meigs.
• Garland, Wray need to be impeached over raid. Mike Davis.

VIDEO WORTH WATCHING

• Liberal media outlet claims rosary is extremist symbol. Fox News.
• GOP congressman says he’s going to war over DOJ political weaponization. Just the News.
• Tucker Carlson, back from vacation, blisters FBI and DOJ for raid on Trump. The Last Refuge.

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TWEETS OF NOTE

• (@ElectionWiz) The feds let Trump keep America’s most closely guarded secrets on nukes at Mar-a-Largo for more than a year. Then 91 days before midterms and one day before DOJ internal policy calls for no raids, they raided Trump’s home for the secrets. That’s what they want you to believe. Tweet.
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BONGINO REPORT TOP HEADLINE AT TIME OF EMAIL

• "No One Ever Thought a Thing Like This Would Happen" – Trump Speaks Out in First Post-Raid Interview BONGINO REPORT.