Trump’s passport taken by FBI.

That is f'ing hilarious. The walls are closing in on him.

He’s such a fucking liar. He probably flushed it down the toilet.

I'm not a lawyer, but this doesn't seem like how it works.

"Ha! Ha!"

Yeah I wish we would stop reporting "things Donald Trump says" as "legitimate news" -- since when can we trust that tub of lard?

Nah, he's lying, if they took the passport it would be on the receipt. They're not going to fuck up their case by doing something stupid like take his passport.

I don't believe a fucking word this lying, fat cunt says.

Flight risk to Russia

If this is true (and given the source, I doubt that it is), the FBI have fucked up massively, and the entire world is going to be incredibly pissed at them for legally fucking up a great opportunity.

The FBI would never risk that. It's got to be another lie.

He's trying so hard not to do something egregiously sleazy and criminal because it would taint his gold-plated brand. He has conveyed such thoughts in private before, until his posse talked him down. But anyone cornered is going to have their breaking point.

I would like to see a Waco-like barricade situation around Mar-a-Lago, with tragic results.

The federal government cannot “steal” a passport. It is considered property of the IS government.

Cunt was president for four years and still doesn’t understand basic civics.

Two of the passports are most likely to be diplomatic ones and he was supposed to surrender those when he left office.

He is most definitely a flight risk. He's probably making arrangements to whisk away to Moscow as we speak.

[quote]He is most definitely a flight risk.

He's a walk risk too if you've ever seen him walking down a platform.

I want him indicted for the murder of Ivana, and whatever is buried on that golf course exhumed. She ain't there.

Oh, you bitch R15!!

🙀🙀🤣

R13 why does he have more than one? Thank you for that detail! I hope they took them all

Sad last days for lard ass.

Don't worry honey I'm still able to take that fabulous European vacation we scheduled at the end of summer. I will take plenty of pictures. Hugs and kisses!!

I wish he would fly far, far away.

All the cash bills in your wallet technically 'belong' to the Government too, r11, and you are only allowed to use it as legal tender. But if FBI agents take it during a search, it has to be mentioned in the warrant and signed off on by a judge. It also has to be noted prominently on the receipt of seized items.

Otherwise it violates the 4th Amendment of the Constitution. If they did that then yes, the defence can argue that the FBI fucked this up and the entire search results could be scrapped.

That's why I'm choosing to believe that the former Liar-in-Chief is merely lying yet again. I mean let's be honest - that's by FAR the most likely scenario here. But if by some bizarre circumstance he's not, the FBI might have fucked up.

Were they OLD, out of date, passports? Is Trump just lying about this? Having your passport taken away from you is not part of a search warrant to look for evidence (or retrieve stolen government documents, in this case). If Trump's passport WAS confiscated, he has almost certainly been indicted or accused of a *very* serious crime. There is something that stinks of horseshit here, based on what has been reported in the news so far. And Donald can be counted on for one thing, and one thing only: LIES.

Honestly the best punishment is to make him work at McDonald's and ask people for the rest of his life if they want fries with that. Shuffle him from restaurant to restaurant, but watch him at all times. They'll need a very strong manager.

Wake me when he goes on a drug fueled rampage and crashes into a MacDonald's before bursting into flames and dying in a grease fire. Grease courtesy of trump's humongous rump.

That’s what HE says.

Hang the fucker

R13 probably has the best explanation.

"Lessee, wudja like extra ketchup with that order?"

So… question. Could Dump’s indictment be sealed? Could the passports be taken under that circumstance? I agree with other posters—if the passports were in the pile of documents seized, they should show up on the list of items. But what if they were taken because he’s under indictment? Any DL legal eagles know?

On the other hand, he might have just misplaced them.

The Orange Turd doesn't need a passport to go visit his boss in Moscow.

^It would NOT have happened like this, R30. He would have been required to hand them over by a Federal Magistrate Judge, in court, if he had been indicted. As others have speculated above, the passports in question (if this is even real) are probably types of governmental, official, passports that Donnie 2-Scoops is no longer authorized to possess, which I'm sure he just FORGOT to hand over in the confusion and uncertainty at the end of his reign.

Well, I guess Dump lied! Shocker!

The FBI did not take the passports, they are not Top Secret or on the receipts. They had no reason to take them and they didn't

If he didn't announce on social media that the FBI was "raiding" his home, we probably wouldn't have known about it for a while.

Then he and his cronies play Twister and tie themselves up in knots trying to come up with an explanation as to why he had those types of documents to begin with.

Now he claims the FBI took his passports.

7+ years of this idiocy and we're still dealing with the daily shit.

Have we not learned that nothing this POS says is the truth?

The FBI would be legally obligated to turn over the Passports to the relevant agency, so their statement today that they are 'not now in possession' of the documents doesn't mean they didn't seize them, just that they don't have them anymore, r33.

^ THEY WEREN'T ON THE RECEIPT. Taking those passports could destroy their case. IT DIDN'T HAPPEN

I agree, r37, on all points.

passports actually are government documents that belong to them - so maybe they were taking all government documents like the warrant said

@r38, Thank you 🙂

The Trump people are tweeting out this response "email from the FBI" (who knows if it's real) saying that "two filter agents" took three passports and will be returning them at 2 pm today.

Who the fuck knows.

^^^^ Here's the tweet the above image is from:

^ I'll believe it when the FBI confirms it

[quote]He's trying so hard not to do something egregiously sleazy and criminal because it would taint his gold-plated brand.

Since when?

Like tRump does not have his passports at arm’s reach…

Trump lied.

But it is noteworthy that he has passports on his mind.

^ Exactly, why all of a sudden is he worried about his passport 🤔

Tee-hee. In my imagination the FBI now is just fucking with his head and I heartily approve!

My Bad, they were in my other safe.

I'm sure they didn't go through everything but I think sometimes LE will take id (even a bill) to prove these are your records. Then, make a copy and return it.

"He's trying so hard not to do something egregiously sleazy and criminal because it would taint his gold-plated brand."

That is just a day that ends in Y for him.

I hope that lying, loathsome pig gets epsteined.

Per a DOJ official speaking to CBS news, Trump's passports were not taken.

[quote]Honestly the best punishment is to make him work at McDonald's and ask people for the rest of his life if they want fries with that. Shuffle him from restaurant to restaurant, but watch him at all times. They'll need a very strong manager.

Good luck with THAT! He'd eat up all the profits - LITERALLY!!

^. Assuming DOJ is correct, I really don’t understand why djt would lie so outrageously.

He probably was planning on handling over the top secret files to his boss, Putin.

When I was a government employee, I had THREE valid passports at one time. One was my personal (blue) passport; the other two were "official" (brown; one step down from diplomatic passports). I needed two because I was traveling to countries that did not allow entry if you'd been to another country that they didn't approve of (think "Middle East") so you had to play these silly passport games to be able to go there.

This won't bother his supporters; most of them will never leave their own county.

Glenn Kirschner says yeah, they may have had good reason and legal basis to take Donnie’s passports.

Politico is confirming the passports were taken and will be returned along with other unwarranted materials taken

Based on the linked tweet, Politico is simply confirming that Trump's people are releasing a screenshot of what purports to be an email.

Maggie HAberman at the NYT confirmed the DOJ returned the passports today

I know Glenn and have worked with him. I like him and we have had to trust each other on cases. But I do get disappointed when he starts pandering to his followers and is simply telling them what he thinks they want to hear rather than more realistic and honest assessments. He's just wrong on the passports and overlooked simple explanations for more sensational speculation.

I was very disappointed in his Rittenhouse commentaries in which he was way off base and rather dishonest. I thought he was afraid he'd lose subscribers. Of course, I do have to remember he was pretty much a life long prosecutor and that can skew your thinking.

^ I'm sure he'll appreciate the back-handed endorsement of a trusted colleague 🙄

AND THEY RIFLED THROUGH MELANIE'S BEAUTIFUL CLOSET!!! She can't find those crotchless undies that I make her wear when she pisses on me.

r63 Glenn? Who's Glenn?

^^^^ Ignore my question at r66 - Sorry, r63 I just figured out who you mean.

My theory is: he was looking high and low for them, and discovered them missing. But why? Going somewhere, Mr. President?

I always know where my passports are. I lost them once in a fire and ever since then I ALWAYS know where both are, and if they're not with me or near me, they're in a fireproof bag inside a firesafe in my house.

People who do not know where their passports are, or are surprised to find they're missing completely baffle me.

Frank Figliuzzi said Trump shouldn't have the diplomatic passport anymore. He has no need for it.

They're going to have to create a strict protocol for exiting Presidents. Search bags and boxes; tie-up loose ends. If they did none of this would have happened.

R69, they may have been in the safe, which means he knew where they were.

They must think he’s a flight risk, and since they know everything, they must have a good idea where he’s going.

And if he recently repaired his plane, which has sat grounded for years because he didn’t have the funds to repair it, there’s a good chance some of Jared’s two billion in Saudi money went to that cause. Which means it wasn’t all for Jared, he was just the bagman.

They must have seen the plane repairs as evidence of a flight risk. He hasn’t repaired it for years.

If he's a flight risk then I sincerely doubt that the FBI would have rushed the passports back to him today, Rose.

I kept my passport and112 piece place setting of WH China in poosey when raid happened. They no find them, but did smell tuna, he he he

Don't know why Trump is so wound up - he still has his Russian and Saudi passports.

[quote]Could Dump’s indictment be sealed?

Doubtful. The whole "sealed indictment" thing that Louise Mensch started has been one of the most pernicious conspiracy theories in this whole mess, and I would bet anything that Trump said his passport was taken -- when it wasn't -- in part to trigger certain types of people to claim "there must be a sealed indictment."

I suspect, if anything, that his old diplomatic passports were in the safe, like r13 said. Or it could be entirely made up.

Or he's about to flee to another country and thinks saying he doesn't have his passport will throw the FBI off the trail.

Are the MAGAtards chanting “lock him up! Lock him up!”?

Do keep up, r75. The passports were taken, apparently accidentally, and were duly returned to him by the DOJ earlier tonight. Storm in a teacup, and all over now.

Also, Louise Mensch is considered Legendarily Insane in the UK. As in 'Mad As A Box of Hair" levels of insane.

She used to make UK politics so weird and fun. I hope she comes back soon.

A flight risk? That's for defendants. He's not a defendant. Yet.

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Would he even need a passport to take a private plane to Saudi Arabia or Russia?

As of 5 hours ago, it was reported that those passports have been returned to Fatso.

So - what now?

^ It means that Trump is still President and will be moving back to the White House today... 😏

Nothing, today there will be some new Trump outrage to get the deplorables all bent out of shape about. Every time the Right thinks they've got the ultimate "gotcha" and every time it turns out to be a big pile of shit

Oh, thank you for explaining, r83. I think I had it all backwards - I was really hopeful earlier that there was a secret indictment of him and now my hopes feel a little bit dashed. But never mind. I'm sure he'll make another blunder.

The passport thing is another con.

Look over there! Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

OMG! THAT THING ABOUT THE WIZARD OF OZ IN THAT OTHER THREAD WAS RIGHT!

Thank God he got his passport back before his upcoming trip.

"Former US president Donald Trump looks set to visit his golf club and hotel in Doonbeg, Co Clare, at the end of August."

We will see if he actually goes, we will see if he bothers coming back.

I don't really care if he ever comes back, but if he doesn't we get all his stuff 😁

[quote]I don't really care if he ever comes back, but if he doesn't we get all his stuff

Enjoy those gold-plated toilet seats.

Last I heard his Trump jet was Missing an engine. He can’t afford to flee

FBI gave them back! They took three passports; two were expired and the other was current diplomatic.

DT is thinking about taking a trip to his properties in Scotland.

Is there a Scotland, Russia?

@r88, "Enjoy those gold-plated toilet seats. "

I will, they're attached to some pretty nice houses

Ireland is expecting him to visit at the end of August. He has reportedly fixed his plane up.

If he doesn't go you might have to wonder if it's because he's not being allowed to go by the DOJ. I would be fine with him going and never returning. Fugitive from justice is a fitting title for him.

DT has managed to get himself out of tight spots before, but something tells me this time might be different.

He's into things up to his neck, and the noose is tightening.

If things go to court and DT sits up there and pleas 5th amendment time after time, it won't look good. Even if there isn't a conviction damage to DT personal and other reputations will be damaged.

DT has always been a slimy, oily and nasty piece of work. Problem is he's now going to take GOP party and his supporters down with him.

Having already "taken the Fifth" 440 times in that deposition in NYC will be spread out all over media if he runs for President again. It's like a giant confession of criminality without having uttered a word about it. It was a HUGE mistake on his part to have done that. It's fantastic.

Everything you wanted to know about passport revocation.

Anyone know of a good attorney?

The ongoing saga of Donald Trump's passport.

It's all about possession. His passport was in the safe, therefore it's circumstantial evidence of the contents of the safe belonging to him.

He is so screwed. I believe his lawyers were at least able to make him understand this, and that's what the freakout is about.

[quote]Anyone know of a good attorney?

What am I, chopped liver?

Jenna Ellis, Krazy Kraken Kunt Sidney Powell, and Christina Bobb--scraping the bottom of the barrel for Z list attorneys. Dump hires all the best people!

The good attorneys don’t want to have anything to do with him. He lies, doesn’t follow instructions, and he doesn’t pay the their fees.

Trump has lost much of his power now. He is toxic. Rats jumping the ship to save themselves.

We should encourage him to leave and then not let him back in for Treason.