On Monday evening, the most brazen weaponization of the FBI ever took place after agents ransacked Donald Trump’s home in Florida, and that’s saying something given the rampant history of corruption and political targeting the bureau has dabbled in over the decades.
Trump was absent from the raid, but it ostensibly involved possible violations of Presidential Records Act. This is a questionable justification, as such matters are usually handled civilly. Which probable cause was there for the FBI to believe that a crime had occurred? Was there a warrant that allowed the FBI to search for and seize the evidence? Those are the questions that gullible “conservatives” believe hold the key to whether the FBI acted improperly or not.
We just have to wait until we get more information.
Trump is winning the FBI-raid caucus going away—we’ll learn more, but this is his best day in pursuit of the 2024 nomination in a long time
— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) August 9, 2022
People are having a hard time thinking tonight because they have not seen the warrant or application for it. The FBI, the former president and others are not above the law. Let us take a deep breath, and then we will see the basis of the warrant. Only then can we judge its merits.
— David French (@DavidAFrench) August 9, 2022
Here’s the thing. You won’t “learn more,” and you aren’t going to be “seeing the warrant.” It is astonishing to me that anyone could observe the behavior of the FBI over the last half decade and come to the conclusion that they are going to be totally transparent in this case. Dir. Christopher Wray was just on Capitol Hill using the “ongoing investigation, can’t comment” excuse about the FBI’s Gretchen Whitmer entrapment scheme. However, he and his DOJ colleagues will turn over the warrant as well as supporting material used to justify the Trump raid.
It’s an active choice to be that gullible. It was difficult for the FBI to make the Carter Page fraudulent FISA warrant public. The only reason it happened was because Republicans controlled Congress at the time. To this day, Wray still won’t even say that the Russian collusion hoax was wrong. The idea that FBI leadership, within a few days of raiding Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, are going to release the warrant to the public is laughable. It’s so naive that the obtuseness has to be purposeful.
FBI/DOJ career lawyers and other officials have been following Trump’s case since 2016 when he was nominated for the GOP nomination. They have found nothing.
This is why I don’t wait for the truth to be revealed before condemning this continuing outrage.
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) August 9, 2022
The FBI falsified FISA warrants and lied about Russian collusion. They also staged Gretchen Whitmer’s kidnapping plot. This information was released right before the election. But we need to wait until the FBI gives us all the facts.
Unbelievable.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) August 9, 2022
The biggest problem with the claim that all we need is more information, as I have already stated, is the fact that it would only be the FBI that provides the information. “Let’s wait for this corrupt organization to say they aren’t corrupt” is not at all a compelling argument. The bureau, from Wray down to the ranks and files, deserves no doubt at all about any aspect of Donald Trump.
It is impossible to excuse what occurred. The FBI could have easily waited for the court battle over the documents to play out, and the National Archives isn’t supposed to just be able to order raids. We know that past experiences have shown us that the FBI wouldn’t treat a Democrat politician in this manner. Hillary Clinton stored 33,000 email messages, some classified, in her personal computer located in a private bathroom. She was not hounded from her house. Instead they phoned her and asked her for the server. Trump wasn’t treated the same way. We all know why, and any “conservative” pretending otherwise is useless.
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