Shortly after finishing my earlier blog post, ending it with a sarcastic nod to our police state adding 87,000 members to the IRS Gestapo, I flipped on Cable TV news and heard Donald Trump’s Florida estate had been raided by the FBI.
Is this the Onion? The Babylon Bee? A mass April Fools’ joke?
No. No. And No.
Mark your calendars, ladies and gentlemen. Aug. 8, 2022, the date the United States descended into full Banana Republic status.
Begin with Attorney General Merrick Garland. Know him for his intense hard-on for all Republicans and conservatives because he didn’t get his seat on the Supreme Court bench.
Garland was nominated by Barack Obama in 2016, but the Republican-held Senate never voted on his nomination. They cited the so-called Biden rule, put forth by then-Senator Joe Biden (back when he didn’t need notes to enter a room) in a 1992 Senate floor speech basically declaring that presidents late in their term should not tinker with the Supreme Court until after the next election was finished.
I am sure it is mere coincidence that AG Garland sees noting wrong with Hunter Biden’s videoed illegal conduct, can’t find any reason to pursue legal action against Democrats or liberals, but can’t wait to lower the hammer on Republicans and conservatives, be they parents protesting school boards or ex-presidents not toeing the line quickly enough.
Similarly, the FBI, which has been outed as a partisan organization, continues to attempt to pin some sort of legal charge on Trump.
Note that in the past the FBI’s pursuit of same has led to changing interview records, providing false information to judges in order to get wiretaps, and generally playing fast and loose with the truth and the law, all in the interest of bringing down Trump.
Trump’s sin is to take on the D.C. Swamp. Trump wants to rid our nation’s capital of the elite inner-circle that feels it has the right to run things without ever having to stand for election, or emerge from the shadows.
Trump was warned, by prominent Democrats and Republicans alike, that you don’t mess with the deep state and survive. Trump continues to attempt to prove them wrong.
There was the sham Russian collusion angle. There were allegations of making illicit deals with foreign governments. More recently, the made-for-TV Jan. 6 hearings have attempted to paint Trump as an insurrectionist, relying on such things as hearsay testimony that was refuted by firsthand witnesses.
This raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, presumably to retrieve classified materials that Trump allegedly took with him when he exited the White House, was great theater for the drooling leftists.
Note that Hillary Clinton’s loose handling of classified materials never even raised the suggestion of a light slap on the wrist. Understand that the Clintons helped themselves to some valuable material possessions when they left the White House. Just an honest mistake.
Expect Garland to crawl out from under his rock sometime Tuesday to present weak rationalization for yet another attempt to publicly humiliate Trump and so seek to intimidate his supporters, from the rank-and-file to the upper reaches.
One legal expert, trying to give the FBI the benefit of the doubt for this unprecedented pre-dawn raid, said there would have had to have been a judge who signed off on the search warrant. You mean like the judges who agreed to surveillance of Trump’s campaign and administration based on erroneous FBI documentation? You mean evidence like that?
Anyone who believes in the U.S. Constitution and equal justice should be appalled by this raid.
You need some perspective? You think this was not an example of overkill for the sake of media optics? Try this:
Various reports had the number of FBI agents used to raid Trump as 30. The U.S. military sent just 23 SEALs on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
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