F.B.I. Raids Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate

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What a bizarre culture.

What we do share (or should share) is that each of us has the right to their own passions.
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I wouldn't use the word "bizzare" but in the western world I would classify the US as culturally unique.

i agree its unusual to me too . it can appear ott to british and probly most european people .

The Department of Justice has signed off on one of former President Donald Trump's candidates to serve as special master and sift through the thousands of White House documents Trump stored at Mar-a-Lago.

The DOJ said in court filings that it would allow Raymond Dearie, 78, former Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, to act as special master, according to Reuters.

While Trump's team has rejected all of the DOJ's picks, the department's approval of Dearie marks a rare mutual agreement in the ongoing legal battle.

Dearie, 78, was nominated by Ronald Reagan and served in the US District court from 1986 to 2011. In 2012, he was appointed by Supreme Court Justice John Roberts to a 7-year term on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, where he oversaw requests by federal investigators for surveillance warrants against suspected foreign intelligence agents inside the United States.

In his role as a judge in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Dearie was one of five Republican-appointed judges who signed off on FISA warrants to surveil a former Trump advisor, Carter Page, to investigate his ties to the Russian government. Two of the four approved warrants were later declared invalid after the Inspector General found a series of misstatements and omissions in the applications by the FBI to get the court warrants to eavesdrop on Page.

If a special master is indeed chosen, he or she would likely need to have the highest national security clearance level in the US. Ultimately, judges appoint special masters based on their expertise, so in this case, the special master would have to be deeply embedded in the national security realm, experts told Insider.

Know what really scares me? Trump still has many supporters and allies within our government. Think on that.

Makes me wonder how many of them are true cult members and how many are only doing it because they think if they oppose him it’ll be career suicide due to all the magas out there.

And how many of them support him only because they believe they can exploiit the mess he's causing for their own gain.

It will backfire on them though. Just like it did for the Germans who believed they could keep Hitler on a leash.

100% it'll backfire - just that it could go 2 different ways..

1. They could go down with him like all the rest of the people he's thrown under the bus.
2. They could be responsible for enabling trump to really do irreparable damage to the US' democracy - which I'd Also consider a backfire; an unintended consequence of swinging from trump's nuts in order to benefit their political career in the moment.