On August 8, 2022 the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s Florida residence. Such an act against any President, past or present, has never been done before. The FBI served their warrant, searched the Trump family home, and even pried his safe open. They found … nothing – not even Ashley Biden’s lost diary.
What was Donald Trump’s supposed crime that justified such an extreme measure?
- Bribery – Nope, that’s a Biden thing
- Treason – Nope
- Assault (perhaps on a secret service agent?) – Nope
- Espionage – Nope, that’s a Swalwell thing
- Cutting the tags off of his pillows – Nope
The feds were looking for classified documents from when Trump occupied the Oval Office, that should have been turned over to the National Archives. That would be the same documents that that have already been declassified and that the Trump people are currently reviewing with the National Archive people to figure out if they should be returned or not.
The Clinton administration provides a good point of comparison. Bill Clinton’s former National Security advisor, Sandy Berger, smuggled documents out of the National Archives in his pants and then destroyed them. It is believed that the documents would have embarrassed President Clinton during the 9/11 investigation. Was Berger’s home searched? Nope. Did he go to jail? Nope, he was sentenced to … community service. Does anybody think Merrick Garland has community service in mind for Donald Trump?
An FBI application for a search warrant requires an affidavit from an agent swearing under oath to the need and circumstances for a warrant. According to Alan Dershowitz, to get a warrant there should be no less intrusive means to obtain the evidence – like asking for it from a subject who is already cooperating with the investigation. Alternatively, there could be an immediate danger of evidence being destroyed – while being reviewed by other federal employees. Sure. But when working with a Magistrate who was formerly employed by Jeffery Epstein, the FBI may have ways to get around those little formalities.
In other words, there was no rational reason to execute a search warrant on Trump’s home. Which also means that the FBI most certainly lied on the affidavit for the warrant – as they have a history of doing. Kevin Clinesmith has forever tainted the FBI’s credibility on such matters.
I suspect that when the search warrant is reviewed by congressional investigators – and it will be – we will see proof of what we already suspect. The raid was an outrageous act, by a rogue federal agency, in service to a corrupt administration.
Putting aside the legality of the whole thing, I have a bunch of questions.
- Did President “Return to Normalcy” approve this, or is America now run by a shadow government? Biden claims he didn’t know about the raid. If true, that’s even scarier than the raid.
- Has Merrick Garland erased any doubt that the deep state is a genuine threat to our republic?
- Is there any need for more evidence to fire Chris Wray and impeach Merrick Garland?
- Has anyone made a stronger argument than Merrick Garland for limited government?
- Does this raid undermine or reinforce the notion that we now have a two-tiered justice system?
- If searches of ex-presidents are now accepted practice, who has more to hide: Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, or Joe “Ten Percent for the Big Guy” Biden? It’s a valid question because they’re all fair game now.
- Is it just a coincidence that Director Wray cut his senate testimony short, and skedaddled out of Washington just days before the raid? Might he have been worried about a leak concerning the raid while he was still seated before Senator Grassley?
- Do we have enough now to at least start talking seriously about disbanding the FBI?
- Is this the “return to normalcy” that the Democrats promised us?
- Has this action “red pilled” any traditional Democrat voters? Has this action shamed any of them similar to how the FBI has shamed former agents?
- Will this raid encourage of discourage Democrat voters from going to the polls in November?
- Has this action gotten any independent voters off of the fence? If so, are they likely to fall left or right after news of the raid?
- Are people suffering through stagflation getting sick of the Democrat Party’s obsession with the last election?
- Will this raid enhance or poison future legislative cooperation?
- Will this be the “crossing of the Rubicon” that actually forces RINOs to take a side?
- Did the Never-Trumpers not see the character of the people they were climbing into bed with? Do they see now that they should have used protection?
- Is this the kind of banana republic bull***t that the Never-Trumpers meant to unleash on America when they sided with the Dems?
- Where do the Never-Trumpers stand on the raid specially? Are they against or in support of the action? Do they have any principles left, or has hatred burned their consciences to ashes?
- What is Liz Cheney’s position on the raid? Does her hatred of Trump outweigh her love of country? I have the same question for Kevin “Real Man” Costner and Senator Pierre Delecto.
- Has this raid increased or decreased the likelihood that the Donald will run again? I’m sure the Dems have contemplated this question a lot.
- Has this raid increased or decreased the likelihood of the Donald being reelected? I’m pretty sure the Dems didn’t spend much time thinking this one out.
- Did the Dems consider that this action might actually help to rehabilitate Trump’s image? They created an America in which victimhood is admired – and they just made Trump public victim number one.
- Has Merrick Garland converted Trump from a mean tweeting ogre to a sympathetic martyr yet?
- Could the Biden administration have possibly done anything more potent to maximize Republican turnout in November?
- Has this angered average Americans? If so, how are they likely to respond? Did the Dems devote even one brain cell to that question?
These are not rhetorical questions. I have suspicions about the answers – but I don’t know for sure. I am pretty sure the Democrats don’t know either – which makes this raid seem all the more desperate. Tell be again how MAGA isn’t winning. If the sun was really setting on MAGA, would the left and its servants in the deep state be acting like this? Desperation is never a sign of strength or confidence.
One thing is certain – Merrick Garland just took a sledge hammer to Pandora’s box. I suspect we’ll learn what the contents are in a few months. I’m guessing that Pandora has a better election day surprise for conservatives than liberals, but we’ll see.
We live in interesting times. Our generation will be witness to either the rebirth or the death of a great nation. The way it goes depends on us.
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With the FBI / DOJ track record concerning President Trump, it should be obvious the raid was illegal ( without factual proof of any notion wrong doing ).
With Congress doing nothing to confront this and the other violations of Federal Law by the Biden Administration / Junta, our system shows the faults inherent in it. That when enough agree to violate the trust they have been entrusted with, Federal Law is what those law breakers say it is, and the People have no recourse whatsoever within that system since there grievances are not even being considered valid ( Re: 2020 Election )
Waiting until such time as decency and sanity return to the Federal government is a poor and dangerous answer. Considering the alternate methods of redress, one of which are elections, fail also if the same group were to employ extraordinary means to alter those elections again.
But, it is clear the framework of our system requires adherence to our system for it to work for all of the People.
Safe and sane / honesty and integrity / decency and respect are at low levels, thus We the People suffer, but We must search our inherent Rights for solutions. Some may be drastic, while others not. But, in any of those cases, it is required that Trust be the Standard Earned or We make something New and try again to form a more perfect Union.
This level of heavy-handed arrogance can only mean that they’re certain in their own minds The Fix Is In–even if the election doesn’t go their way they’ll just reject the results, possibly even refuse to seat new House members as IIRC they did with Hiram Revels after the Civil War.
Don’t ever count the Gestapo out until you’ve backed Himmler into a corner where he thinks the only out he has left is his cyanide pill.
The raid was the ongoing effort to rid the country of Trump, because he was beginning to undermine what the Swamp looks like. They will not stop until Trump is in prison or dead. If either events happen, all it will do is hasten the demise of the USA, and maybe show the left that they need to find another continent to live on, because only then can the USA begin to rebuild what we once had.
He exposed the Swamp, the corporate media and the communist influence on all our institutions. He did an awful lot more than he will ever be given credit for, and it was well past overdue.
If they succeed in assassinating him, or jailing him, which they won’t, the left has no idea what that supposed 81 million votes that they claim got Biden into the White House looks like, when compared to the millions who will be taking them on.
And Congress will do exactly nothing to correct what ails our country. One House member has already said that the first thing the Republican House, under Kevin McCarthy(that’s a joke!) will do is to defund that Inflation Reduction Act. When has anything like that happened in the last fifty or so years? McCarthy has said, himself, for the Democrats to all clear their calendars, concerning that January 6 garbage, and what is related to the raid. Sure he will. He will be a weaker House Speaker that the drunk Boehner, and maybe be about par with Ryan, who was his own kind of joke. They wouldn’t dare take any such bold actions. The Republicans in both branches of Congress are scared of their own shadows. They need to be forced with a pitchfork behind them, to act on anything, no need to bother with what Democrats do.
A CNN reporter just admitted that the name “Inflation Reduction Act” was “all marketing to get Manchin to vote for it. That says about the same for Manchin as it does for the ones who marketed it to him. Both sinister.
We will get some kind of “Fix”, more like another can kicking. That is all. Republicans will have to get their cojones back from Drag Queen Story Hour, where they must have left it.
We are up against a serious evil, and the ones who are supposed to safeguard against this are all scared out of their panties.
I’ve already decided that I will not give another dollar to the Party until they pay me with results in advance, because this in arrears stuff is bankrupting me. That means to those idiots who keep asking me for money, do your job first.
We get what we pay for. We always do.