The Justice Department and FBI have spent the past several years destroying so much of their own credibility that any explanation they provide for Monday’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home will be insufficient.
These are the same agencies that orchestrated the Russia collusion hoax, the same agencies that refused to hold Hillary Clinton accountable for her mishandling of classified information, the same agencies that have allegedly covered up crimes committed by Hunter Biden, the same agencies that refused to prosecute illegal protests outside Supreme Court justices’ homes, and the same agencies that declined to investigate attacks, including arsons, against pro-life organizations and pregnancy centers.
Whatever statement they might provide about the Trump raid, the fact remains that FBI and DOJ officials have been acting as partisans on behalf of the Democratic Party for years now. There’s simply no reason to believe anything they say.
The Russia collusion investigation is the best example of the Justice Department and FBI’s willingness to bend the rules and abuse their own authority. The FBI falsified information on a FISA warrant application so that it could wiretap Trump’s campaign. An agent submitted Christopher Steele’s dossier as legitimate evidence despite knowing its sourcing was bogus. The FBI met with Clinton associates despite the obvious conflict of interest. Multiple FBI agents openly talked about how they hoped the investigation would prevent Trump from winning and taking office. Yet they were able to pass all of this off as legal because they obtained approval from a FISA court and upper-level DOJ officials.
So, it doesn’t really matter whether the FBI’s warrant application to raid Trump’s home was technically legal. The FBI’s FISA warrant application to wiretap Trump’s campaign was also legal, only it was based on a fraud that took years and multiple federal investigations, one of which Trump ordered himself, to uncover.
Nor does it matter what kind of justifications the DOJ and FBI offer up in public. These people are liars. They shopped the bogus collusion accusations to the media and Congress’s “Gang of Eight,” knowing full well that none of it was true. They aided and abetted a political hit job against the sitting president of the United States. Not a single person involved has since been subjected to serious, long-term repercussions.
Why should we believe things will be any different this time around?
