U.S. broadcast and print media railed against former President Donald Trump for the backlash to the Aug. 7 raid on Mar-a-Lago, claiming in a search warrant that he kept classified material in a locked basement. But whatever the allegations, the press doesn’t like adverse reactions from Trump supporters fed of with the government overreach, seeking a search warrant to procure whatever documents remained from Trump’s presidency. Talking about the Presidential Records Act, Title 18, Section 2071 of U.S. Code pertaining to record keeping or, even more arcane, the 1917 Espionage Act, all sound official but amount to very little in terms any threat to U.S. national security. No media outlet, print or broadcast, wants to talk about the long-standing abuse of the National Security apparatus, including the DOJ, FBI, CIA and NSA all used to sabotage Trump’s 2016 campaign and presidency.
No, the media wants to forget about the years of fake reporting on Trump’s ties to the Kremlin, all because they bough, hook, line and sinker, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s paid opposition research AKA the Steele dossier, used by former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan to launch an illegal counterintelligence investigation into Trump and his campaign. Within months of taking office, Trump fired FBI Director James Comey May 9, 2017 for constantly leaking fake Russian stories to the press. Democrats were so outraged, they pushed Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein to appoint 77-year-old Robert Mueller as Special Counsel, spending 22-mohts and $40 million to find nothing. But the media wonders why there’s a backlash to the latest DOJ and FBI hoax, accusing Trump of violating the Espionage and Presidential Records Acts.
Democrats and the Press used the latest raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence to justify the Jan. 6 House Select Committee findings that Trump orchestrated and planned the Capitol Hill insurrection. Democrats suffered the indignity of losing the Feb. 13, 2021 Senate impeachment trial, trying to charge Trump with “incitement of insurrection.” Unable to convict Trump in the Senate, Democrats decided to hold Trump accountable for the Jan. 6 riots, all because a number of rabble-rousers tried to lash out at the U.S. government. After Monday’s raid on Mar-a-Lago, Democrats and press want to blame Trump for stirring up right wing nut cases to cause more trouble. “We’re very strong supporters of law enforcement, and it concerns everybody if you see some agents go rogue,” said Minority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), the No. 2 ranking House Republican, a possible 2024 presidential candidate.
Democrats and the media want to forget about the years of complicity, accusing Trump of conspiring with the Kremlin to win the 2016 presidential election. Comey acted dumbfounded when former Atty. Gen. Bill Barr accused him April 10, 2019 of spying on Trump and his campaign. Comey acted clueless thinking that it was OK as FBI Director to do whatever he liked. Now comes Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland, who, yesterday, admitted he signed off on the Mar-a-Lago search warrant. What did Garland think would happen taking extreme measures to keep Trump from running in 2024 for president. Former Hillary campaign attorney Mark Elias said the raid of Mar-a-Lago was the biggest political blockbuster he could remember. He said Trump’s plans to run for president were compromised with the dark cloud of criminal charges or, at the very least, creating such bad publicity.
What does the press think would happen going after Trump, largely on bogus probable cause? Comey thought he had legitimate probable cause when he duped FISA Court Judge Rosemary Collyer to get warrants to wiretap former Trump foreign policy aid Carter Page. Collyer admitted that Comey cherry-picked the facts, omitting that Page formerly worked for the CIA. So when so-called magistrate Bruce Reinhart signed off on the search warrant, it meant nothing in terms of real facts or urgent national security issues. Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland was on the defensive defending the DOJ and FBI. Did Garland defend Comey’s right to his counterintelligence investigation against Trump and his campaign all based on Hillary fake dossier? “The men and women of the FBI and the Justice Department are dedicated patriotic public servants every day,” Garland said, forgetting about the abuse of power concerning Trump.
Garland has a lot of explaining to do saying that Trump’s locked basement contained possibly top secret or classified nuclear codes. Does Garland think the last five years of the Russian hoax never took place? If the public expresses some outrage over the continued persecution of Trump and his associates, Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray must live with it. Garland can’t say the FBI under Comey served the public with integrity. Democrats and media want to make up facts as they go, making up more wild allegations about Trump’s role in hiding classified documents. Whether admitted or not, it’s highly doubtful that Reinhart thought that documents at Mar-a-Lago threatened U.S. national security. Garland talks about the highest integrity at the DOJ and FBI. When former lovers, FBI agent Peter Strzok and Atty. Lisa Page pledged their souls to keep Trump from president, what that integrity to Garland?
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
