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Originally Posted by Damien
Everyone knew they did? It was reported. What people were saying was that it was the FBI who requested the search and that FBI director, and another Judge who approved it, were Trump appointees.
No, it isn't.
It's the equivalent to the British Attorney General approving a request from the head of the Met Police to raid the home of Keir Starmer and having that request also approved by a High Court Judge.
Biden didn't order the FBI to conduct the search. The FBI wanted the search. Biden didn't approve the search. The U.S Attorney General did.
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I suspect Biden's extremely disappointed by the timing. He's just had some very significant legislative successes which are in danger of being overshadowed by the raid:
- He will shortly sign America’s first serious attempt to tackle global warming. His predecessors tried it and failed.
- He will also sign the “Chips plus” act, America’s first industrial policy since Reagan’s response to the rise of Japan in the 1980s. The bill puts tens of billions of dollars into public science research — the kind of money that in the 1950s resulted eventually in the Internet
- His climate and tax bill also for the first time gives the federal government the power to negotiate lower drugs prices.