Chess Pieces: Taiwan and the Great Game – The Epoch Times
"Lets be clear: This is a brazen weaponization of the FBI by Bidens DOJ against his political opponentwhile giving their political allies free passes."
Steve Scalise
U.S. House Minority Whip
"We've got a job as the Oversight Committee to push back on this and to really get to the bottom of what's going on and to help bring sunlight to the bad corrupt actions that are going on and then to work to get it out."
Michael Cloud
Member, House Committee on Oversight and Reform
"I didnt actually get to oversee the search, they wouldnt let anybody see what they were doing."
Christina Bobb
Attorney to Trump
"No person is above the law. Not even the president of the United States. Not even a former president of the United States."
Nancy Pelosi
U.S. House Speaker
"Because we're in a revolutionary cycle, or the left has now said, under the pretext that Donald Trump is so extraordinarily threatening to the Republic, that it requires any means necessary to end him."
Victor Davis Hanson
Classicist and Military Historian
"Theyre using the full powerillegally, I think, unconstitutionallyof the law to harass, intimidate, and try to push Trump out of the picture."
Louie Gohmert
U.S. Representative
"If theres anything negative about Trump or his allies, that gets accelerated, leaked, and used for political purposes."
Matt Gaetz
Member, U.S. House Judiciary Committee
"They see the support that he has all over the country. His rallies terrify them."
Marjorie Taylor Greene
U.S. Representative
"When Republicans take back the House, we will conduct immediate oversight of [the DOJ]."
Kevin McCarthy
U.S. House Minority Leader
"The security state complex and the complexity of the security state ... is now overtaking our system of government and our rule of law."
Michael Flynn
Retired lieutenant general
"[The raid] was the latest link a long series of operations starting six years ago with absurd claims that Donald Trump was the asset of a foreign country. That operation was called Russia gate."
Lee Smith
Author, The Plot Against the President
"This is the modern day version of Watergate. Except the only difference is it wasn't political operatives breaking in to their opponents headquarters. It was the FBI and DOJ."
Kash Patel
Former Chief of Staff to the Acting Secretary of Defense
"These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents."
Donald Trump
Former President
"[The] 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
Ranking Member, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee
"[Russia hoaxers] have now been promoted into the Biden administration. ... Theyre definitely targeting [former] president Trump because they dont want him to run for president."
Devin Nunes
Former U.S. Representative
"DOJ must immediately explain the reason for its raid ... or it will be viewed as a political tactic and undermine any future credible investigation."
Andrew Cuomo
Former New York Governor
"[The raid represents] another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regimes political opponent."
Ron DeSantis
Florida Governor
"AG must explain why 250 yrs of practice was upended with this raid."
Mike Pompeo
Former Secretary of State
"Beginning in 2016, Americans began to have doubts when we began to unravel the Russia collusion reporting. ... Those doubts kept growing and you started to hear people say we have a dual justice system in America."
John Solomon
Editor-in-Chief, Just the News
"It seems like this was ... without buy-in or notification of higher levels of government. But literally no one will believe that."
Andrew Yang
Former Democratic presidential candidate
"Its all a coordinated attack with the FBI. Do you think that the FBI director is going to raid the former presidents house without getting the approval of President [Biden]?"
Eric Trump
Son of former President Donald Trump
"[Democrat Party attorney] Marc Elias is saying that the criminal statute could result in President Trump being barred from future office. And I think its clearly part of his plan."
Jeff Clark
Former lawyer, Justice Department
"I think for anyone who doubted that there was a swamp when Donald Trump was saying drain the swamp now I think theres true believers."
Warren Davidson
U.S. Representative
"Three FBI agents visited me and seized my cell phone. Im outraged ... [that the FBI] would seize the phone of a sitting Member of Congress."
Scott Perry
U.S. Representative
"Half the country believes that when it comes to President Trump there are no rules. They have lost faith in the system."
Lindsey Graham
Chairman, US. Senate Judiciary Committee
"The country deserves a thorough and immediate explanation of what led to the events."
Mitch McConnell
U.S. Senate Minority Leader
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Chess Pieces: Taiwan and the Great Game - The Epoch Times
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