Commentary

“We may be looking at simultaneously the dumbest and most inadvertently destructive political gambit in the recent history of this country.” – Matt Taibbi

Attorney General Merrick Garland may be tight-lipped about the raid on former President Trump’s home at Mar-A-Lago, but information is leaking out that only tends to point a finger again at the active deep state of our government.

Thanks to some journalistic sleuthing by someone at Florida’s Voice, we learned that the warrant to search was signed off by Judge Bruce Reinhart, a federal magistrate, who contributed $1,000 to Barack Obama’s campaign in 2008.

While tweeting about Rep. John Lewis and the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma, on January 14, 2017, Reinhart wrote: “Donald Trump doesn’t have the moral stature to kiss John Lewis’ feet.”

Kramerontheright was reminded of the text FBI agent Peter Strzok sent to his lover, fellow agent Lisa Page during the Russian collusion period: “Trump is a f**king idiot” and reassured her that Trump would not win the election, saying, “No, he won’t.  We’ll stop it.”

The hate for Trump runs deep among the left, because of his remarks about draining the swamp. 

Who can believe the White House spokesperson’s insistence that President Biden was not notified of the raid in advance.  Not notified of a raid on a former president?  C’mon, man.

We’ve also learned that 30 plain-clothes agents went through the 3,000-square-foot private quarters of the president and Mrs. Trump, and even searched a wardrobe of the former First Lady.

An observer referred to the agents as “arrogant,” while indicating “we have full access to everything.  We can go everywhere.”

Writing of the extraordinary political risk inherent in the decision to execute the raid, Matt Taibbi, commented that “if it backfires, if underlying this action, there isn’t a very substantial there there, the Biden administration just took the world’s most reputable police force and turned it into the American version of the Tonton Macoute (a 1959 operations unit of Haitian leader Papa Doc) on national television.

The View from Arizona

The Arizona primary is history.  The left-leaning Arizona Republic did its best to keep Kari Lake from winning the Republican gubernatorial race for governor, vilifying her for her ties to former President Trump.  The attacks continue.

In her Wednesday column, the Republic’s bleeding-heart liberal columnist, Laurie Roberts, is critical of Lake’s reference to the FBI’s raid on the former president’s home as “one of the darkest days in American history.”

Roberts ridiculously referenced the attack on Pearl Harbor, the assassination of Lincoln and the days the Twin Towers fell as dark days for America, and they were.

But of course, Lake was making reference to the effect the raid had on our democracy, by the politicization of our nation’s highest law enforcement agency.  It wasn’t that long ago that the left was accusing Trump of undermining our democracy and the destroying our institutions.

In Lake’s statement, she noted the raid “is one of the darkest days in American history; the day our government, originally created by the people, turned against us,” as she referenced the weaponizing of the federal government to take down President Trump as an “abuse of power.”

Whether you voted for Lake or not, you know she’s right.

Finding Humor in the Raid

Don’t get me wrong.  As I stated in my last blog post, the raid better turn up “something big.”  But if it was just to recover boxes of documents on behalf of the National Archives, it was an overreach.

I had to chuckle when I heard Fox’s Jesse Watters refer to the raid as if the FBI was acting on behalf of the librarians at the National Archives.  Then again when the New York Times’ White House reporter speculated that it was about the “delayed returning of 15 boxes of material requested by the National Archives.”

I already visualize Joe Biden in Tim Conway’s characterization of “Mr. Tudball” and FBI Director Christopher Wray as Inspector Clouseau, but the raid on Mar-A-Lago reminded me of the famous Seinfeld episode featuring the late Phillip Baker Hall, who portrayed “Mr. Bookman” the library investigating officer.

Here’s a flashback:  “Well I want to tell you something, funny boy,” he says to Jerry, “Y’know that little stamp, the one that says ‘New York Public Library?’  Well, that may not mean anything to you, but that means a lot to me.  One whole hell of a lot”

After some wonderful dialogue by Baker Hall, he ends with, “Party time is over. Y’got seven days, Seinfeld. That’s one week!” as he leaves Jerry’s apartment.  Look for it on You Tube.

Seinfeld insisted that he returned the book, and we’ve been told that Trump has been cooperating with the Archives for months.  The boxes of documents were originally packed by workers of the General Services Administration and shipped to Mar-A-Lago when Trump left office on January 20, 2021.

May God continue to bless the United States of America.