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GOP Reacts To FBI Mar-A-Lago Raid, Legal Experts Suggest Trump ‘Will Be Re-Elected Hands Down’

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As the Democrats pop champagne over the FBI Mar-A-Lago raid, little do they know just how disastrous their manufactured stunt could be for their political careers. As a matter of fact, if anything, Trump is now more popular than ever according to how quickly millions have rallied on social media to defend the former President. Slowly, the Democrats will start to realize that their plan is about to backfire, but for now, we’ll let them have their moment.

And for those Republican voters who were unsure, prior to the FBI raid, whether they wanted Trump to run, are now convinced without a shadow of a doubt, that the former President’s got their vote now should he run again.

As far as the GOP is concerned, they have now launched their own hit piece on the FBI while praising Donald Trump. Some are going as far as to suggest that “he will be re-elected President in 2024, hands down” if all the FBI did was raid Mar-a-Lago over a few pieces of classified documents.

According to the Politico Playbook, the immediate political impact in the GOP was a rally to Trump’s defense. “Trump is winning the FBI-raid caucus going away,” Rich Lowry tweeted, “we’ll learn more, but this is his best day in pursuit of the 2024 nomination in a long time.” CBS’ Robert Costa reported, “Some allies are urging him to speed up his decision on 2024 in the wake of this, that no one in [the] GOP will challenge him now … others are telling him to stay cool, wait.” On Fox News, ERIC TRUMP, who said he informed his father of the search, said publicly for the first time that he now wanted his father to run for president again.

WATCH: Eric Trump alerted his dad to FBI raid, said agents ‘ransacked’ the ex-president’s office

House members, senators, 2022 nominees, and potential 2024 GOP presidential candidates flooded social media with condemnation of President JOE BIDEN, A.G. MERRICK GARLAND and the FBI and in solidarity with Trump.

But there was one corner of the GOP establishment notable for its restraint: Senate Republican leadership.

Minority Leader MITCH MCCONNELL, Minority Whip JOHN THUNE (R-S.D.), Republican Conference Chair JOHN BARRASSO (R-Wyo.), Republican Policy Committee Chair ROY BLUNT (R-Mo.) and Republican Conference Vice Chair JONI ERNST (R-Iowa) all refrained from tweeting about the search as of early this morning.

MARK LEVIN was quick to attack the Senate leadership for not speaking out on Fox News Monday Night.

There was one leadership exception: National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair RICK SCOTT (R-Fla.) tweeted, “The @FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago is incredibly concerning, especially given the Biden admin’s history of going after parents & other political opponents. This is 3rd World country stuff. We need answers NOW. The FBI must explain what they were doing today & why.”

Many other GOP senators echoed Scott, including Kentucky’s RAND PAUL (“outrageous and unjust”), Tennessee’s MARSHA BLACKBURN (“I stand with President Trump”), Florida’s MARCO RUBIO (like “3rd world Marxist dictatorships”), South Carolina’s LINDSEY GRAHAM (“launching such an investigation of a former President this close to an election is beyond problematic”) and Kansas’ ROGER MARSHALL (“no one is safe from political persecution”).

As for 2024 aspirants, Sens. TOM COTTON (R-Ark.) and JOSH HAWLEY (R-Mo.) didn’t tweet. But Sen. TED CRUZ (R-Texas), Florida Gov. RON DESANTIS, and South Dakota Gov. KRISTI NOEM did. DeSantis called the search “another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents.” Noem said it was “un-American.” Cruz hit all of these notes and many more in a thread that ended with “4/x,” suggesting he may pick things up this morning.

Most GOP House members commenting about the search took it as a given that it was politically motivated.

The tone was set from the top. “I’ve seen enough,” House Minority Leader KEVIN MCCARTHY tweeted. “The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization. When Republicans take back the House, we will conduct immediate oversight of this department, follow the facts, and leave no stone unturned. Attorney General Garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar.”

Minority Whip STEVE SCALISE (R-La.) called the search “a brazen weaponization of the FBI by Biden’s DOJ against his political opponent.”

Republican Conference Chair ELISE STEFANIK (R-N.Y.) said, “The FBI’s raid on President Trump’s Florida home is a dark day in American history. The political weaponization of the FBI and Department of Justice is an actual threat to democracy.” The FBI, she said, is a “corrupt agency.”

Rep. JIM BANKS (R-Ind.), the Republican Study Committee chair who wants to be majority whip if the GOP takes the House, spoke for many of his colleagues by dragging the president’s son into the drama: “HUNTER BIDEN skates free while DOJ executes a political plot to destroy lives of political opponents.”

Rep. ANDY BIGGS (R-Ariz.) compared Biden to MUAMMAR GADDAFI. Rep. GREG STEUBE (R-Fla.) said America “has become a totalitarian state.” Rep. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R-Ga.) tweeted, “DEFUND THE FBI.” Rep. PAUL GOSAR (R-Ariz.) tweeted, “We must destroy the FBI.”

Texas Rep. LOUIE GOHMERT, perhaps aware of the surge of violent rhetoric emanating from online Trump forums — “as violent as I’ve seen them since before January 6th,” per NBC’s Ben Collins — appealed for calm. “Do not let this lawless government provoke violence,” he tweeted. “They will use it to declare more emergencies, perhaps even take more of our liberties, and attempt to steal the upcoming election, and make this the totalitarian, Orwellian police state toward which they have been moving us.”

Republican candidates and groups, such as the RNC and J.D. VANCE, immediately used the search to raise money last night.

After firing off his own FBI-themed fundraising appeals, Trump ended Monday by calling into an Alaska rally for SARAH PALIN. “This was a strange day,” he told the crowd.

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