I have to say, I’m kind of enjoying this whole Trump-FBI raid news cycle. It’s so patently absurd, but like a badly written TV show, you just feel like you’ve got to see through until the end.
AG Merrick Garland made a statement on Thursday. However, he didn’t say anything. He did agree to unseal the warrant used for the raid of Trump’s home, but he gave no details about what the FBI was after and what evidence they supposedly had to undergird their actions. This felt like a way to minimize the whole thing. What if the FBI couldn’t find the information it needed?
And then the leaks began. Just hours after Garland had sneered at Americans for questioning the FBI’s integrity, someone inside the department (or the DOJ) ran to The Washington Post to claim the government searched Trump’s home because they were looking for “nuclear documents.”
Merrick Garland: Merrick Garland said this afternoon that “Federal law and longstanding Department rules as well as our ethical obligations forbid me from giving any further information about the basis of this search at this moment.”
Two hours later, leaked details of the Washington Post’s most dangerous secrets were revealed
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) August 12, 2022
Let me clarify. Donald Trump was a holder of nuclear documents which were important enough to warrant an FBI raid. However, the government delayed 18 months and made no arrests. Because the government is known for never arresting anyone for stealing nuclear secrets, you know. It sounds legit.
Naturally, media took it all in, and the resistance went wild. What’s the latest theory? Trump may be being targeted by the Espionage Act. No, I’m not kidding.
You can find more information about this crime here #Espionage Act:
NYT:
“Two people briefed on the classified documents that investigators believe remained at [MAL] indicated that they were so sensitive in nature, and related to national security, that the Justice Department had to act.”— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) August 11, 2022
Espionage is punishable by life in prison and death.
— Brett Meiselas (@BMeiselas) August 12, 2022
In the anti-Trump universe, this is the way the sausage is made. The FBI carries out a partisan witchhunt against the current president’s top political opponent while providing no justification. To cover their tracks, that FBI goes on the run and releases something absurd and unfalsifiable to a left-wing publication. The mainstream media then takes the story as fact, even though it doesn’t make sense. The mainstream left finally comes up with radical ideas about Trump as a Saudi Arabian spy. It all becomes common knowledge, even though there isn’t any supporting evidence.
It’s all just so laughable. Further, the big tell that the FBI didn’t even find anything is that the leaks don’t say they found anything. Although they may have claimed to be looking for nuclear documents in their search, any that they did find would have been immediately leaked.
Trump is likely to emerge from all of this feeling better than he’s ever been in a while. While the resistance still hopes for an FBI Frog March, they feel like they are playing too safe. Trump will not be charged with the Espionage Act. He’s not even going to be charged with anything, in my opinion. This is at most not connected to it (the Jan 6th fishing expedition, however, is another story).
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