Sober Cautions in All Directions from the Trump Raid

There are enough warning flags here to stop an SST on a runway.

“There was in informant!” “They took the equivalent of Trump’s rolodex.” “They planted evidence.” Typically in the immediate wake of any political firebomb, most early reports are wrong. Some are wrong due to errors. Many are wrong due to malignant misreporting and political agendas. Remember, the Japanese said that they had sunk Admiral Bull Halsey’s fleet. He cabled back over open channels, paraphrasing, “All ships sunk by the Japanese have been repaired and are retiring toward the enemy at full speed.”

Right now I urge sober caution in all direction about this horrifically stupid and incendiary raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence. We simply don’t know a great deal now, and speculation is as likely wrong as it is right.

Here is what we know for sure: 1) Mar-a-Lago was raided by the FBI. They stayed for hours; 2) they did not permit video surveillance of their activities (meaning they could have planted evidence); 3) they didn’t initially allow Trump’s representatives to have the search warrant (but later finally acquiesced); they spent a perverted amount of time in Melania’s closet. Makes me wonder if Thoroughly Modern Milley was involved.

We do not know: 1) if they looking to find something as criminal evidence or if they were looking to plant something; 2) We do not know if they were looking to remove damaging or compromising material as lawyer Robert Barnes seems to think. We assume, but do not know, if this was related to the ongoing battle with the National Archives and Records Administration over documents Trump allegedly took from the White House. (This battle has been going on for months).

Trump was not present. We do not know if this was done specifically because he was not present or not. It appears—-again, no “pwoof” to quote Clintoid lawyer Lanny Davis—-that the New York Slimes got a leak of this raid ahead of time. We assume that Governor Ron DeSantis did not get a heads up.

What we do know is that this has all the appearances of a thuggish goon-squad invasion by Blackshirts, or a fascist mob descending on Jews. It is the epitome of tradition-defying, law-ignoring, power-displaying, public-be-damned Third-world moblike dictatorship activity associated with the SS, the Shah’s Savak, or the Tzars’ Okhrana. It had the subtlety of one of Disney’s dancing hippos in “Fantasia,” and the class of a two-bit prostitute in ripped fishnets.

And it’s all coming from Grand Moff Garland.

Oh, Smarmy Little Wray, the FBI Director so oily you could lube your SUV with his ooze, knew about this and almost certainly approved, but it’s too big and too evil to come from him. He’s the low-level, street corner boss who answers to the big boys.

It’s almost certainly not Rutabaga. For once, I believe their squeals that they, Sergeant Schultz-like, “Know noooooothiiink!”

So if someone bigger than the Demented Pervert and much bigger than Wray is ordering this through Grand Moff Tarkin, who is it? This is one of the questions that remains to be answered.

For now, only one thing is truly clear: all Republicans will be judged by their response to this, and “wait for evidence” is the wrong answer. Unless there is an uncategorical denouncement of this fecal crime, the Republican in question has just sacrificed any voter good will.

So far, senate candidates who desperately need the base to show up—-Mehmet Oz and Herschel Walker come to mind—-have surprisingly split, with Oz decrying the act with somewhat tepid language and Walker silent. The usual anal-pimples Yertle, Thune, and their ilk have been silent or adopted the fatal “we’ll see” approach.

Clue: the only thing “we’ll see” is you, leaving your office in the next election. The days of fence straddling are long-gone, my little career politurnips. Now you are going to have to actually earn people’s votes.

Larry Schweikart

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