Whatever it is, the FBI had better have a really good reason for its raid today on Mar-a-Lago. And I mean a much better reason than anything related to the Jan. 6 committee because nothing that’s happened in those hearings would justify this. I can certainly imagine that Trump has done something that would justify this action, but it had better be something that goes way beyond some trivial charges that he overdid the nasty political rhetoric. You know, theft of taxpayer funds, espionage, murder — that kind of thing.
I get it that there are a lot of Trump-deranged liberals on Twitter who are gleeful about this. They are idiots. That is a very shortsighted view for the Left to take. If this turns out to be yet another flimsy controversy like Jan. 6, the Russia hoax, or either impeachment, the backlash against Biden and Democrats for politicizing the Justice Department is going to be immense. And Trump will have months to make himself the center of everything once again.
You don’t have to be fond of Trump to realize what a dark turn of events this is. The suddenly controversial anti-Trump Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin put it just about right. “I hope that DOJ went about this meticulously and that there is a ‘there’ there because if not, it will tear the country apart,” she said. “You [are] already seeing it, the rhetoric already that’s coming out from my fellow Republicans, and I’m really hoping that this was done for a credible reason and that it goes somewhere.”
Note that in just six years, we have gone from hearing Democrats condemn the tongue-in-cheek chant “lock her up” to chanting it themselves in complete earnest. Even Trump had the good sense not to go hard after Hillary Clinton on the fully justifiable in the abstract but also obviously unimportant and trumped-up charge of mishandling classified documents and violating government privacy laws. It would have been a national tragedy to arrest her then.
I know that liberals have convinced themselves Trump is Hitler reincarnate and a bigger threat to democracy and freedom than Xi Jinping, but let’s deal in the real world here for a minute.
Nobody wants to see Trump bow out for 2024 more than I do. But if there isn’t something substantive to justify this raid, then the FBI is giving him yet another chance to play the martyr. They are bringing our country right up to the edge of the Third World. It’s pretty scary stuff.
