The Quiet One

• So the context obviously: Trump's main residence, his home at Mar-A-Lago resort, was raided by the FBI for documents that he shouldn't possess. The FBI raiding a former president's home is completely unprecedented.
• This is NOT an easy task. It requires substantial levels of support from a judicial system that is primarily owned by Trump's appointees and significant evidence to suggest that a law was broken and a raid was the only remaining option to prove it.
• Trump and his supporters' first complaints were that "This is completely unnecessary!" and they demanded the FBI release the warrant details--despite Trump being capable of releasing the warrant details himself. They just preferred the publicity of being able to blame the FBI for it
• The FBI released the warrant details to Trump's request on Friday, revealing that, holy shit, they retrieved top-secret files including among them information on US nuclear weapons, some of which I've seen implied to be the highest level of classified possible
• Trump is being investigated for 3 potential crimes, which are (in summary) concealment or mutilation of government records, destruction of evidence, and violations of the Espionage act. That could be interpreted as spying, but at the very least, it suggests the distribution of fragile government information to other countries
• The question now is not whether a law was broken. We know for a fact that he illegally possessed documents. The question now is what law(s) were broken, and who to blame (whether Trump himself or those that were handling documents for him)
• Generally, complaints by his followers have transitioned to "Okay so he broke the law--but why was a raid necessary to prove it" and they're demanding to see the evidence that led up to it. They will never be satisfied
• Something they like to keep claiming is that a raid wasn't necessary because Trump was being "cooperative" with the FBI because he handed over some documents earlier this year. For context, the FBI subpoenaed documents Trump possessed, and he handed over some of them. Some. His supporters like to use this to claim that he was being cooperative even though it literally shows that he was being untrustworthy in his negligence to hand over everything he should have.
• They often demand that the FBI could have retrieved the documents more peacefully... even though they literally did issue a subpoena for them and he didn't fulfill it. They could not have done more. This was the last option.
• Trump has complained about corruption in the Judicial branch... despite the Court being majorly his appointees, and the fact that he himself appointed the FBI director who approved the raid
• He illegally possessed files on US nuclear weapons. Some of his followers have gone so far as to claim "but not all nuclear information is that bad! He could have had things that were harmless!"
• Trump has simultaneously baselessly implied that the FBI planted evidence while also claiming that he had legal right to possess those files and demanding they be returned. You can't have it both ways chap
• The only way the FBI could've known about the documents was if someone very close to Trump disclosed it to them. I've seen a lot of estimates that only 4-8 people have that kind of information. This means Trump has to be paranoid about a traitor very close to him which is hilarious and fun to see
• Many of his supporters have claimed that the Judicial system is rigged and that the FBI should be defunded and arrested... ignoring the fact that, you know, he illegally possessed top-secret government files. Police brutality against people of color is fine, but God forbid the FBI stops someone from carelessly possessing classified nuclear weapons documents!
• i cant stress enough how absolutely bizarre it is to see people admitting that he did break a law but they somehow think it's "political" for the FBI to catch him for it
• He likes to claim that Barack Obama had possessed millions of government files as if it's some kind of gatcha argument when the documents in question were actually in the safe possession of a National Archives facility... not Obama's house
• He had top-secret nuclear weapons documents in his house?????
• Generally, Trump's supporters have either polarized in his defense or are just at a loss for words. Many have gone silent and quietly withdrawn their support. Some have admitted they're concerned about the FBI's findings. Others are blindly following his weird claims to the point of violent extremism (which looks great for someone who's already being investigated for organizing a coup!)
• A dumbass with a gun tried to break into an FBI office and it ended with his death after a standoff with police

“They asked me to tell you what it was like to be twenty and pregnant in 1950 and when you tell your boyfriend you’re pregnant, he tells you about a friend of his in the army whose girl told him she was pregnant, so he got all his buddies to come and say, “We all fucked her, so who knows who the father is?” And he laughs at the good joke…. What was it like, if you were planning to go to graduate school and get a degree and earn a living so you could support yourself and do the work you loved—what it was like to be a senior at Radcliffe and pregnant and if you bore this child, this child which the law demanded you bear and would then call “unlawful,” “illegitimate,” this child whose father denied it … What was it like? […] It’s like this: if I had dropped out of college, thrown away my education, depended on my parents … if I had done all that, which is what the anti-abortion people want me to have done, I would have borne a child for them, … the authorities, the theorists, the fundamentalists; I would have born a child for them, their child. But I would not have born my own first child, or second child, or third child. My children. The life of that fetus would have prevented, would have aborted, three other fetuses … the three wanted children, the three I had with my husband—whom, if I had not aborted the unwanted one, I would never have met … I would have been an “unwed mother” of a three-year-old in California, without work, with half an education, living off her parents…. But it is the children I have to come back to, my children Elisabeth, Caroline, Theodore, my joy, my pride, my loves. If I had not broken the law and aborted that life nobody wanted, they would have been aborted by a cruel, bigoted, and senseless law. They would never have been born. This thought I cannot bear. What was it like, in the Dark Ages when abortion was a crime, for the girl whose dad couldn’t borrow cash, as my dad could? What was it like for the girl who couldn’t even tell her dad, because he would go crazy with shame and rage? Who couldn’t tell her mother? Who had to go alone to that filthy room and put herself body and soul into the hands of a professional criminal? – because that is what every doctor who did an abortion was, whether he was an extortionist or an idealist. You know what it was like for her. You know and I know; that is why we are here. We are not going back to the Dark Ages. We are not going to let anybody in this country have that kind of power over any girl or woman. There are great powers, outside the government and in it, trying to legislate the return of darkness. We are not great powers. But we are the light. Nobody can put us out. May all of you shine very bright and steady, today and always.”

“You know things are getting bad when you spend all day in bed again and don’t want to leave your room. Your room is slowly becoming a mess. Losing interest in everything that used to make you happy, or distract you. Only eating one meal a day seems normal. Ending it all starts crossing your mind once again.”