So what just happened at Mar a Lago, President Trump’s Palm Beach residence with Monday’s FBI raid? It’s not what you’re expecting.
The left is terrified, as they should be, of their electoral prospects this coming fall. Even more than that, they are ‘dump in their Depends’ terrified of what they could be facing in 2024 with Biden looking very likely to run. We all know this, notwithstanding that the media on both sides has been making the point regularly over the past month. It’s the foundation for what we’re seeing happening.
Here’s what we know as of Tuesday morning.
The FBI has raided Trump’s Mar a Lago Florida residence, seizing boxes of documents. These are allegedly classified documents that Trump left the White House with - as he is permitted to do, just to be clear on this. They are not J6 documents however.
What many are failing to explain is that Trump, as the former President, has a security clearance and is entitled to possess these documents. Not only that, and the media isn’t going to tell you this, but Trump’s Mar a Lago home has a security station that was installed when he was President, what is known as a SCIF, in which these documents can be both stored and viewed safely, just as in the White House. In other words, these documents aren’t just laying about on Trump’s desk for anyone to view.
It appears that this raid is being conducted under the aegis of the Presidential Records Act. It seems that a group of DC bureaucrats are unhappy with the fact that Trump has thousands of documents under his control instead of theirs I know, you’re truly shocked by this revelation, so was I.
We’ll ignore the fact that they despise Trump in any event. These documents only serve as an excuse for what the left is really up to.
Let’s turn over some rocks here, let’s see what’s lurking underneath. Let’s examine motives and political bias as they pertain to this event.
At the moment, the left is terrified, as they should be, of what they are facing in this fall’s election. Nothing is going right for them. On kitchen table issues that matter most to Americans - the economy, crime and the country’s foreign affairs and immigration issues - Biden has not only dropped the ball, it’s bounced far out of his reach. The country is, to be honest, in crisis: inflation, recession, immigration, crime, Taiwan, Ukraine, the list goes on and on. All of it, out of control.
The Democrats are therefore in serious electoral trouble this fall, and in 2024. They desperately need a distraction. The January 6 hearings served that purpose for a few months, but they are done with. America wasn’t impressed by what was clearly a kangaroo court process. In some corners, Trump’s popularity actually increased. Whoops! That won’t do.
If anything, the J6 hearings have shown many independents that the justice system is badly skewed in favour of the left. The recent “inflation fighting” bill just passed will do no such thing, leaving the Democrats exposed yet again as wildly incompetent.
Add to all this the Hunter Biden issues, where solid evidence of actual criminality by the President’s son, including actions implicating the President himself, have been demonstrated with no action being taken by the DoJ.
Don’t just think of Trump either. What about Roger Stone, what about all the other Trump supporters who have been arrested with little or no basis, and often in a manner more fitting to a serial killer?
People like Peter Navarro, Roger Stone, George Papadopolous and others. And this is not to ignore the illegitimate manner in which the J6 arrested have been held.
Where is the evidence to support all these arrests, not to mention the manner in which they were undertaken, such as the 6 am raid on Roger Stone, the gruesomely public airport arrest of Peter Navarro?
The media doesn’t ask these questions, because the answers would undermine their narrative, along with that of the Democratic party.
Peter Navarro was arrested for contempt of Congress. But what happened to Eric Holder, anyone care to tell me? Both men were charged with the same crime, but only Navarro gets charged?
I don’t need to beat this drum, it’s obvious to anyone who hasn’t blinded themselves to the truth. Justice in America has a significant bias in favour of the left.Thus, it’s now time for the next distraction. Cue the outrage.
Here’s where my cynicism kicks in. The left knows they have no substantive basis for this raid on Trump’s home. Not when you consider how other politicians have been handled for alleged crimes - Hillary Clinton foremost, but certainly many others on the left.
Most pundits on the right are claiming that the goal of these actions is to force Trump out of the running in 2024. They are claiming that the left is terrified not only of Trump, but that they do not have a candidate, presuming Biden doesn’t run for re-election, who can take Trump on and win in, dare I say it, a “fair” election.
That much at least is true. The left is bereft of presidential talent. The current administration is a stark demonstration of that truth.
But that’s not why this action has been taken against former president Donald J. Trump. Not at all. The left knows very well that what they’ve done has enraged the right, and that was their intent all along.
I was listening to and reading various media all night. The right is beyond furious, and I’m only listening to the rational right. The left has stains on the front of their pants from peeing themselves in excitement. They’re worse than untrained puppies about this.
The further right you look, the angrier people are. The further left, the louder the cheering.
On the right are people who will not only vote in 2024, they’ll crawl from their deathbeds to do so if they think they can re-elect Trump, especially in the face of this obvious injustice. But is that enough for Trump to win in 2024? I don’t think it is.
The left has made a very cynical calculation that there are enough independents, enough Never Trumpers, in the Republican mix, people who won’t vote for Trump even if the cognitively challenged Biden does choose to run, that they can win.
In other words, they are betting that the fury of the right over what has happened today will not be enough to put Trump over the line in 2024. Not only that, but far, far worse, their cynicism extends to thinking that this move will solidify support for Trump in the primary, will discourage people like Desantis and others from running.
In their thinking, such will be the anger on the right that conservatives will work to “inflict” Trump on the left as a form of justice. Elect Trump, give him a chance to teach the left a lesson. Justice is served, 2020 is avenged. Take that!
The scary thing is, they just might be correct. The right might well fall for this.
It’s a desperate play, conjured up by political desperados, a true Hail Mary pass by the left who are faced with having to support a dysfunctional president with historically low popularity in a national election in two years.
The left understands very well that they cannot win against any remotely competent Republican candidate, much less someone like Governor DeSantis. So, they’ve taken a move which outwardly appears to be that of removing Trump from the equation.
But what if thats not what’s happening? What if the left has calculated, planned even, that they can’t or won’t convict Trump with this move? What if they don’t even lay charges, which is what I believe will happen.
What if their intent is to infuriate Trump and his supporters, to guarantee that Trump will choose not only to run, but to run as an enraged and unruly bull in the ring? Lord knows, Trump can do unruly and it’s not pretty.
Have you read his statement tonight regarding the raid?
It is prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for President in 2024, especially based on recent polls, and who will likewise do anything to stop Republicans and Conservatives in the upcoming Midterm Elections. Such an assault could only take place in broken, Third-World Countries. Sadly, American has now become one of those Countries, corrupt at a level not seen before.” (emphasis mine)
Pardon me, but if that’s not the roar of a (righteously) outraged man, what is? And Trump’s supporters will be equally as outraged. When even Newt Gingrich loses it, you know it’s bad.
But I don’t believe the outrage will be enough to carry the 2024 election against the loss of independents and Never Trumpers, although it is probably enough to carry the primaries for Trump. And therein lies the danger.
Cynical on my part to think this way? Yes, yes it is, but as sure as you’re reading these words, this is what is coming. The left wants Trump to run, needs Trump to run, and by appearing to act illegitimately with tonight’s raid, by appearing to attempt to delegitimize Trump, by confirming he and his supporters belief in the left’s disrespect for the law, to appear to be forcing Trump from the race, they ensure not only that Trump runs but that he will lose.
You almost have to admire this, it’s as Machiavellian a move as I’ve ever seen. The left is very good at this sort of thing.
We need to be aware of this, we need to step back from our righteous anger over what’s been done to Donald Trump, because, like him or not, we need to stay focused. We need to make a rational choice, not an emotionally charged one, for the GOP candidate in 2024.
As much as I know it should be Donald Trump, as much as I wish it could be Donald Trump, I know that it can’t be Donald Trump. Not if America is to survive and rebuild from what’s happening to it under the current administration.