Over the past 6-plus years, we have said over and over and over again, until we’re nearly blue in the face, that the GOP and its followers is no longer simply a political party — it’s a cult. This is a cult with such deep, blinding devotion and admiration and obsession with Donald Trump that it is truly, absolutely, to your core terrifying.
And while it’s true that the number of followers in that cult has begun to wane now that we are finally almost two years post the Trump presidency and some have finally begun to see the real truth behind this sorry excuse for a man, there’s simply no denying the fact that the cult numbers are still far too high. High enough, in fact, to truly present a credible threat to this nation.
News broke this evening that Donald Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida, Mar-a-Lago resort was raided by officials with the Federal Bureau of Investigation as they executed a federal search warrant against the country club that the scandal-ridden former president calls home. Following this explosive news, a crowd of Donald Trump’s most loyal, devout followers gathered outside the Palm Beach complex, where they donned their flags and signs and expressed their outrage with the same thin blue line that they’re so protective of when one of them has killed a black kid.
Cristian Benavides, a local reporter with NBC 6 News in Miami, was the first to report on the unsettling scene.
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In the various clips outside the Mar-a-Lago resort, Trump’s supporters can be heard shouting from inside their vehicles, many of them using obscene language. In one clip, a woman can be heard screaming, “God bless America!” In a different clip, a passerby of the makeshift convoy screams, “Fuck Trump!” prompting a woman in the group to shout back, “Fuck you!”
In addition to the convoy of decked-out vehicles, a number of the scandal-ridden ex-president’s followers can be seen gathered on the side of the road, proudly waving their Trump flags in the air in support of the man who was just raided by the FBI.
It remains unclear as to what the FBI was searching for during the raid of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Palm Beach resort. However, multiple recent reports have indicated that the Justice Department’s investigation into the corrupt former president and his attempts to overthrow the 2020 presidential election has gained an enormous amount of steam as of late while speculations and educated theories regarding National Archive documents have already begun to spread like wildfire.
See the viral clips of the scene outside Mar-a-Lago here:
The scene outside Mar-A-Lago where a search warrant was conducted earlier today
Trump supporters have gathered in front of Mar-A-Lago as well@nbc6 @NBCNewsNow pic.twitter.com/giugzoCYCU
— Cristian Benavides (@cbenavidesTV) August 9, 2022
This group of Trump supporters is located near Mar-A-Lago about a half mile away at the entrance of the bridge into Palm Beach
There are multiple vehicles with Trump flags driving back and forth between this group and Mar-A-Lago@nbc6 @NBCNewsNow pic.twitter.com/F4tzWrVAaZ
— Cristian Benavides (@cbenavidesTV) August 9, 2022
The crowd near Mar-A-Lago continues to grow into the night following that search warrant earlier today @nbc6 @NBCNewsNow pic.twitter.com/FQqppzeXYQ
— Cristian Benavides (@cbenavidesTV) August 9, 2022
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