The exposition of the FBI’s behavior in the month of August has been something to behold. We also learned recently that FBI officials went on Facebook to discuss the Hunter Biden laptop case. This was in response to Russian disinformation. Since 2019, the FBI knew the truth about the story, as they were the ones who had access to the laptop.
Prior to that, the big story has been the raid of Donald Trump’s Florida home, which has led to numerous court clashes as the government has sought to keep the details secret. Much to the dismay of those in power, Friday’s affidavit came out. The affidavit revealed that Trump was being targeted by a politically-armed FBI, working in concert with National Archives partisans over a record dispute partly based upon a CBS News story.
Despite this, former President has still won some victories in the wake of the extraordinary action. Although the entire affidavit had been heavily edited, it still was unusual to order any portion of it released. Trump just scored a major hit with his request to have a special master review the Mar-a-Lago seized items.
The news sent resistance libs into fits of rage, as illustrated below in Marc Caputo’s post.
Legal Twitter quickly condemned the tweets. Below is a sample of QTs & RTs pic.twitter.com/7rME1ZvaLO
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) August 27, 2022
You know you are over the target when the left-wing legal “experts” on the bird site start frothing at the mouth. They should be asked what are they afraid of. Is transparency and accountability in such a process bad? It makes perfect sense, given the controversies over the records that an hopefully neutral third party should be allowed to act as an arbitrator between these two parties. NARA does not have all the power. It does not lord over the executive branch, and just because they say something doesn’t make it true or the law.
While no one knows where it will lead, I suspect that Trump was more concerned with creating bad press than building a criminal case against himself. I actually came to that conclusion very early on following AG Merrick Garland’s presser on the matter. I just don’t see the DOJ ignoring the Hillary Clinton precedent regarding the handling of government records, and even if they tried to go that route, there are people on record saying the declassification order existed. It would lead to total chaos if Trump were charged (and presumably convicted given the DC jury pool) with a crime that the government gave Clinton a pass on, and she didn’t have the use of presidential powers as a defense.
Another part of me believes they should go all that way. It only makes the raid more obvious if the DOJ does not stop there. It has backed itself up, which may lead to some bad decisions.
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