Why Was Mar-a-Lago Raided?

Devin Nunes nailed it this morning with a question every American should be asking: Why was Mar‑a‑Lago raided?

The Left says it would be unprecedented to prosecute Barack Obama, yet they already crossed that line by targeting President Trump, a man who committed no crime.

They… pic.twitter.com/FVH0MkwV5V

— Wesley Hunt (@WesleyHuntTX) July 27, 2025

Obama isn't above the law. He isn't untouchable.

Devin Nunes: Obama Was 'Mastermind' Behind Russia Collusion Lie

Nunes: Obama was the MASTERMIND behind the Russia Collusion lie.
"they lit the fuse, they put out the BS intelligence report [the ICA] right before President Trump came in. They framed Gen Flynn, they framed the entire Trump administration and then they appointed Mueller! pic.twitter.com/y2ltnx1bno

— Svetlana Lokhova (@RealSLokhova) July 20, 2025

FBI Targeting Nunes and Patel During Russia Probe

Probe opened into FBI targeting of House Intelligence committee staffers during Russia probe | Just The News https://t.co/pnKG6q8UUi

— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) July 13, 2023

From Just the News:

The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday opened a formal investigation into why the FBI snooped on two Republican House Intelligence Committee staffers during the height of the Russia collusion probe, suggesting the seizure of their private email and records may have been retaliation for the panel's efforts to expose bureau misconduct.

The letter from Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, to FBI Director Christopher Wray was prompted by reporting in Just the News and the New York Post revealing that Kash Patel, the chief investigator on then-House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes' team, had his email seized from Google back in late 2017 just before the release of a report that identified significant failures and abuses in the Russia collusion scandal.

...The letter, which demands records be turned over by the FBI by the end of this month, comes after Special Counsel John Durham told Congress earlier this summer he corroborated many of the abuses that Patel, Nunes and his team first found in the Russia probe.

The FBI's abuses are shocking.

Defund the FBI.

Twitter Files: The Russiagate Lies

1.THREAD: Twitter Files #14
THE RUSSIAGATE LIES
One: The Fake Tale of Russian Bots and the #ReleaseTheMemo Hashtag

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 12, 2023

3.Twitter officials were aghast, finding no evidence of Russian influence:

“We are feeding congressional trolls.”
“Not any…significant activity connected to Russia.”
“Putting the cart before the horse assuming this is propaganda/bots.” pic.twitter.com/r8O21QacME

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 12, 2023

5.On January 18th, 2018, Republican Devin Nunes submitted a classified memo to the House Intel Committee detailing abuses by the FBI in obtaining FISA surveillance authority against Trump-connected figures, including the crucial role played by the infamous “Steele Dossier”: pic.twitter.com/uhl7TXYsBC

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 12, 2023

7.Nonetheless, national media in January and early February of 2018 denounced the Nunes report in oddly identical language, calling it a “joke”: pic.twitter.com/IkTXRGrfaH

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 12, 2023

9b. Feinstein/Schiff said the Nunes memo "distorts" classified information, but note they didn't call it incorrect. pic.twitter.com/3ZMVM6XH9p

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 12, 2023

11.Feinstein, Schiff, Blumenthal, and media members all pointed to the same source: the Hamilton 68 dashboard created by former FBI counterintelligence official Clint Watts, under the auspices of the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD). pic.twitter.com/sifFJhBTn6

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 12, 2023

13.Inside Twitter, executives panned Watts, Hamilton 68, and the Alliance for Securing Democracy. Two key complaints: Hamilton 68 seemed to be everyone’s only source, and no one was checking with Twitter.

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 12, 2023

15.“All the swirl is based on Hamilton,” said Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth. pic.twitter.com/xqJxVM3knb

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 12, 2023

17.Roth couldn’t find any Russian connection to #ReleaseTheMemo – at all. “I just reviewed the accounts that posted the first 50 tweets with #releasethememo and… none of them show any signs of affiliation to Russia.” pic.twitter.com/wJJ3rmI3Ks

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 12, 2023

19.A staffer for “DiFi” – Feinstein – agreed it would be “helpful to know” how Hamilton 68 goes by “the process by which they decide an account is Russian.”

But, only AFTER Feinstein published her letter about Russian influence. pic.twitter.com/ysPYDuEtOH

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 12, 2023

21.Added another: “It might be worth nudging Blumenthal’s staffer that it could be in his boss’ best interest not to go out there because it could come back to make him look silly.” pic.twitter.com/tP6VZF0PPC

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 12, 2023

23.Blumenthal published his letter anyway.

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 12, 2023

25.They expressed this explicitly to Blumenthal’s camp, saying “Twitter spent a lot of resources” on this request and the reward from Blumenthal shouldn’t be round after round of requests.”

“We can’t do a user notice each time this happens.” pic.twitter.com/pcixoeYIyH

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 12, 2023

27.Ultimately senior executives talked about “feeding congressional trolls” and compared their situation to the children’s book, “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.” pic.twitter.com/xk6reot1lf

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 12, 2023

29.The metaphor for the endless Russia requests was so perfect, one exec wrote, “I’m legit embarrassed I didn’t think of that first.” pic.twitter.com/MbI6XrnS18

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 12, 2023

31.Outside counsel from DC-connected firms like Debevoise and Plimpton advised Twitter to use language like, “With respect to particular hashtags, we take seriously any activity that may represent an abuse of our platform.” pic.twitter.com/DW5nO9Syh5

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 12, 2023

33.Russians weren’t just blamed for #ReleaseTheMemo but #SchumerShutdown, #ParklandShooting, even #GunControlNow – to “widen the divide,” according to the New York Times. pic.twitter.com/L7qZWwcyON

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 12, 2023

35.NBC, Politico, AP, Times, Business Insider, and other media outlets who played up the “Russian bots” story – even Rolling Stone – all declined to comment for this story.

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 12, 2023

37. Who did comment? Devin Nunes. "Schiff and the Democrats falsely claimed Russians were behind the Release the Memo hashtag, all my investigative work... By spreading the Russia collusion hoax, they instigated one of the greatest outbreaks of mass delusion in U.S. history.”

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 12, 2023

39.For more, watch @ShellenbergerMD, @BariWeiss, @LHFang, @DavidZweig, @AlexBerenson, and more.

Read https://t.co/7BmQRqfy4p for more on why “America Needs Truth and Reconciliation on Russiagate.”

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 12, 2023

40.Twitter had no editorial input on this story. Searches were carried out by third parties, so the documents could be limited.

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 12, 2023

Devin Nunes: VINDICATED

Devin Nunes Leaving Congress to Run Trump Media Group

BREAKING: The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Devin Nunes will leave Congress, Politico reported on Monday. https://t.co/rw7AVQYYG3 pic.twitter.com/g9lXnO7IUM

— Newsmax (@newsmax) December 6, 2021

Devin Nunes To Ask Wray If FBI Informants Used On January 6

Devin Nunes to ask Wray if FBI used informants on January 6th. pic.twitter.com/sOSmA1eGPF

— Justice For Ashli Babbitt (@ForAshli) November 15, 2021

I hope Wray is prepared to answer.

CPAC - Julio Rosas Gets Standing Ovation

My dude @Julio_Rosas11 just got a standing ovation at CPAC after Devin Nunes complimented his reporting on the border pic.twitter.com/9OJoTDilPN

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 11, 2021

Julio Rosas is doing real reporting at the border. He did real reporting at the Black Lives Matter/Antifa riots.

We need more reporters like Julio Rosas.

Democrat Hypocrisy - Adam Schiff Seizes and Leaks Nunes Phone Records

Adam Schiff seized Devin Nunes' phone records without a warrant and then leaked them. https://t.co/MrHFK190HX

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) June 11, 2021

Other than the well-deserved public humiliation he's faced, Adam Schiff has never paid any price for his lawlessness.

Impeachment Hoax

Impeachment Hoax Part 1 pic.twitter.com/6Wtufj5vN3

— Devin Nunes (@DevinNunes) December 19, 2019

Impeachment Hoax part 2 How to make a coup boring... pic.twitter.com/CiOSfrD587

— Devin Nunes (@DevinNunes) December 19, 2019

TIME's Person of the Year: Greta Thunberg

.@GretaThunberg is TIME's 2019 Person of the Year #TIMEPOY https://t.co/YZ7U6Up76v pic.twitter.com/SWALBfeGl6

— TIME (@TIME) December 11, 2019

With all due respect, what a joke!

TIME claims to give the title to the "the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year, for better or for worse."

Sorry, but there's no way that is Greta Thunberg.

The REAL “Person of the Year”:
Devin Nunes 👇🏻👇🏻🚨 https://t.co/rX3uA66q3f

— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) December 11, 2019

Without a doubt.

Schiff Memo: LIES

IG Report Confirms Schiff Memo Media Praised Was Riddled With Lies https://t.co/ygfpx8CBX4

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) December 10, 2019

IG Report Confirms Schiff Memo Media Praised Was Riddled With Lies https://t.co/ygfpx8CBX4

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) December 10, 2019

Schiff memo lies in ruins, while the Nunes report, scoffed at by much of the media, holds up well in light of IG report. https://t.co/22huCb9JtJ

— Brit Hume (@brithume) December 11, 2019

Nunes Sues CNN

Devin Nunes filed a defamation suit against CNN in federal court on Tuesday over the anti-Trump cable network's false claim that he traveled to Vienna in December of 2018 to meet with Viktor Shokin.

"CNN is the mother of fake news," the lawsuit states. https://t.co/pxAMjQLbrH

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) December 3, 2019

This is great. CNN and their crazed media counterparts need to be held accountable for pedaling lies.

Ron Johnson's Firsthand Knowledge

Read Sen. Ron Johnson's letter to Jim Jordan and Devin Nunes.

Low-Rent Ukrainian Sequel

Exactly.

Devin Nunes on Democrats' Sham Impeachment

Rep. @DevinNunes: "First they insisted that the President is a Russian agent. Then they claimed he's a money launderer and a tax cheat and a fraudulent businessman. Now they've decided they don't like the way he talks to foreign leaders." pic.twitter.com/6jMX4fNE5y

— The Hill (@thehill) November 1, 2019

Collusion: Russia and the Democrat Party

Devin Nunes presents the truth, clearly and concisely.

"The conspiracy theory is dead."

ICYMI... surprised this hasn’t been banned from YouTube yet... https://t.co/b5gSDZCC4J

— Devin Nunes (@DevinNunes) July 27, 2019

FBI Spies in Trump Campaign

This post is from May 11, 2018. It's interesting to revisit.

The question today isn't whether or not the FBI was involved in spying on the Trump campaign. We know about the coup attempt.

The discussion today focuses on whether or not "spy" and "surveillance" are synonyms.

They are.

Here's the post from one year ago today, when Robert Mueller was still desperately trying and failing to find some wrongdoing by President Trump.

BREAKING: The FBI had spies working from within the Trump campaign as part of their effort to dig up dirt on President Trump - @SaraCarterDC

— Wired Sources (@WiredSources) May 11, 2018

HOLY BLEEPING BLEEP: About That FBI ‘Source,’ by @KimStrassel https://t.co/T81ZXuAGOt via @WSJOpinion

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 11, 2018

BREAKING: There is serious concern there was an FBI spy within the Trump 2016 campaign - @SaraCarterDC

So Obama likely interfered with the election. 🧐

— Oliver McGee PhD MBA (@OliverMcGee) May 11, 2018

Kimberley Strassel writes:

The Department of Justice lost its latest battle with Congress Thursday when it allowed House Intelligence Committee members to view classified documents about a top-secret intelligence source that was part of the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign. Even without official confirmation of that source’s name, the news so far holds some stunning implications.

Among them is that the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation outright hid critical information from a congressional investigation. In a Thursday press conference, Speaker Paul Ryan bluntly noted that Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes’s request for details on this secret source was “wholly appropriate,” “completely within the scope” of the committee’s long-running FBI investigation, and “something that probably should have been answered a while ago.” Translation: The department knew full well it should have turned this material over to congressional investigators last year, but instead deliberately concealed it.

...The bureau already has some explaining to do. Thanks to the Washington Post’s unnamed law-enforcement leakers, we know Mr. Nunes’s request deals with a “top secret intelligence source” of the FBI and CIA, who is a U.S. citizen and who was involved in the Russia collusion probe. When government agencies refer to sources, they mean people who appear to be average citizens but use their profession or contacts to spy for the agency. Ergo, we might take this to mean that the FBI secretly had a person on the payroll who used his or her non-FBI credentials to interact in some capacity with the Trump campaign.

This would amount to spying, and it is hugely disconcerting. It would also be a major escalation from the electronic surveillance we already knew about, which was bad enough. Obama political appointees rampantly “unmasked” Trump campaign officials to monitor their conversations, while the FBI played dirty with its surveillance warrant against Carter Page, failing to tell the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that its supporting information came from the Hillary Clinton campaign. Now we find it may have also been rolling out human intelligence, John Le Carré style, to infiltrate the Trump campaign.

Remember, Obama said, "We didn't have a scandal that embarrassed us."

That, of course, was ridiculous.

From RealClearPolitics:

At an MIT event where attendees were directed not to record, stream, photograph or share anything on social media about former President Barack Obama's speech, Reason was able to obtain an audio recording of his address.

According to Reason, the former president spoke about Google and Facebook, climate change, a junior NBA league and how diversity prevented his administration from having any scandals.

"There were mistakes," Obama acknowledged. "We'd screw up, but there wasn't anything venal during eight years. I know that seems like a low bar, but you look at the presidency. That's no small thing."

Obama and the Democrats thought they could do anything during the 2016 campaign. They believed they were untouchable because Hillary was sure to be elected. Trump had no chance.

It's great the way things worked out.

We're learning more and more about the venality of Obama's administration.

Devin Nunes Sues Twitter

Conservatives used to take it, but they're not taking it anymore.

Devin Nunes' lawsuit against Twitter, @LizMair, and two anonymous Twitter accounts, @DevinNunesMom and @DevinCow: https://t.co/jcplpvc29a

— Byron York (@ByronYork) March 18, 2019

BOOM! Rep. Devin Nunes Sues Twitter for $250 Million in Damages for "Shadow-Banning" Conservatives to Influence Elections https://t.co/fgTD18oeor via @gatewaypundit

— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) March 18, 2019

FISA Docs - Nunes Was Right

FISA Docs: Court Was Misled, Nunes Committee Was Right https://t.co/VeyfHFdCSk

— Sara A. Carter (@SaraCarterDC) July 23, 2018

FBI Spies in Trump Campaign

BREAKING: The FBI had spies working from within the Trump campaign as part of their effort to dig up dirt on President Trump - @SaraCarterDC

— Wired Sources (@WiredSources) May 11, 2018

HOLY BLEEPING BLEEP: About That FBI ‘Source,’ by @KimStrassel https://t.co/T81ZXuAGOt via @WSJOpinion

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 11, 2018

BREAKING: There is serious concern there was an FBI spy within the Trump 2016 campaign - @SaraCarterDC

So Obama likely interfered with the election. 🧐

— Oliver McGee PhD MBA (@OliverMcGee) May 11, 2018

Kimberley Strassel writes:

The Department of Justice lost its latest battle with Congress Thursday when it allowed House Intelligence Committee members to view classified documents about a top-secret intelligence source that was part of the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign. Even without official confirmation of that source’s name, the news so far holds some stunning implications.

Among them is that the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation outright hid critical information from a congressional investigation. In a Thursday press conference, Speaker Paul Ryan bluntly noted that Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes’s request for details on this secret source was “wholly appropriate,” “completely within the scope” of the committee’s long-running FBI investigation, and “something that probably should have been answered a while ago.” Translation: The department knew full well it should have turned this material over to congressional investigators last year, but instead deliberately concealed it.

...The bureau already has some explaining to do. Thanks to the Washington Post’s unnamed law-enforcement leakers, we know Mr. Nunes’s request deals with a “top secret intelligence source” of the FBI and CIA, who is a U.S. citizen and who was involved in the Russia collusion probe. When government agencies refer to sources, they mean people who appear to be average citizens but use their profession or contacts to spy for the agency. Ergo, we might take this to mean that the FBI secretly had a person on the payroll who used his or her non-FBI credentials to interact in some capacity with the Trump campaign.

This would amount to spying, and it is hugely disconcerting. It would also be a major escalation from the electronic surveillance we already knew about, which was bad enough. Obama political appointees rampantly “unmasked” Trump campaign officials to monitor their conversations, while the FBI played dirty with its surveillance warrant against Carter Page, failing to tell the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that its supporting information came from the Hillary Clinton campaign. Now we find it may have also been rolling out human intelligence, John Le Carré style, to infiltrate the Trump campaign.

Remember, Obama said, "We didn't have a scandal that embarrassed us."

That, of course, was ridiculous.

From RealClearPolitics:

At an MIT event where attendees were directed not to record, stream, photograph or share anything on social media about former President Barack Obama's speech, Reason was able to obtain an audio recording of his address.

According to Reason, the former president spoke about Google and Facebook, climate change, a junior NBA league and how diversity prevented his administration from having any scandals.

"There were mistakes," Obama acknowledged. "We'd screw up, but there wasn't anything venal during eight years. I know that seems like a low bar, but you look at the presidency. That's no small thing."

Obama and the Democrats thought they could do anything during the 2016 campaign. They believed they were untouchable because Hillary was sure to be elected. Trump had no chance.

It's great the way things worked out.

We're learning more and more about the venality of Obama's administration.