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   A day after the FBI conducted an unprecedented raid on former President   
   Donald Trump’s home in Palm Beach, Florida, Representative Scott Perry (R-   
   Pa.) reported that the same federal police agency seized his cellphone   
   while the congressman was on vacation with his family.   
      
   Perry, a close ally of Trump, reported that three FBI agents approached   
   him with a warrant and took his personal cellphone. Perry could not say   
   why the FBI wanted the phone, but he registered his outrage in a   
   statement.   
      
   “They made no attempt to contact my lawyer, who would have made   
   arrangements for them to have my phone if that was their wish. I’m   
   outraged — though not surprised — that the FBI under the direction of   
   Merrick Garland’s DOJ, would seize the phone of a sitting Member of   
   Congress,” Perry said. “My phone contains info about my legislative and   
   political activities, and personal/private discussions with my wife,   
   family, constituents, and friends. None of this is the government’s   
   business.”   
      
   Perry decried the FBI’s actions against Trump and himself as “banana   
   republic tactics.”   
      
   “As with President Trump last night, DOJ chose this unnecessary and   
   aggressive action instead of simply contacting my attorneys. These kinds   
   of banana republic tactics should concern every Citizen — especially   
   considering the decision before Congress this week to hire 87,000 new IRS   
   agents to further persecute law-abiding Citizens.”   
      
   Perry, a five-term congressman and retired brigadier general, has been a   
   loyal supporter of Trump and has promoted the idea that the 2020 election   
   was corrupt. He currently sits as the chair of the House Freedom Caucus.   
      
   Perry was subpoenaed to testify by the so-called January 6th Committee in   
   May, but, along with many other GOP members of Congress, refused to attend   
   the show trial.   
      
   “That this illegitimate body leaked their latest charade to the media   
   ahead of contacting targeted Members is proof positive once again that   
   this political witch hunt is about fabricating headlines and distracting   
   Americans from their abysmal record of running America into the ground,”   
   Perry said of the committee’s request.   
      
   Although the FBI claims that the raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound was   
   all about the handling of White House documents, this new attack against a   
   Trump supporter has all the earmarks of the January 6 Committee.   
      
   CNN reports that Perry was in close contact with former Chief of Staff   
   Mark Meadows in the lead-up to the January 6 unrest. Reportedly, Perry had   
   requested that their conversations take place on Signal, an app that   
   encrypts phone calls. If that had occurred, the FBI may be kicking a dead   
   horse as the Signal app doesn’t keep any user data, which makes it almost   
   impossible to determine whether such conversations even took place.   
      
   (Or maybe the wizards at the FBI crime lab can still find whatever they’re   
   looking for.)   
      
   Another reason that the Deep State appears to be out to get Perry might be   
   that in October of 2021, he submitted H. Res. 743, articles of impeachment   
   against Attorney General Merrick Garland.   
      
   Those impeachment articles were quite damning to Garland, of course. Perry   
   accused the attorney general (AG) of presiding “over a reckless and   
   corrosive politicization of the Department of Justice at the expense of   
   our Nation’s children.”   
      
   Perry also called out Garland’s targeting of First Amendment activities   
   that the AG felt contradicted “the teaching of ‘equity’, ‘inclusion’, and   
   ‘critical race theory’ concepts in public school districts.”   
      
   The New American has been warning of the politicization and weaponization   
   of the federal bureaucracy for quite a while now. Never has that concept   
   been so apparent (and so brazen) as in the attacks the FBI has engaged in   
   in the past two days.   
      
   It’s enraging and, worse, fear-inducing. It appears that here in America   
   we now have a federal law-enforcement agency grinding a political ax at   
   the point of a gun. What’s coming next? Gulags for the dissidents?   
      
   https://thenewamerican.com/fbi-seizes-cellphone-of-gop-congressman-a-   
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