So the long-awaited release of the Department of Justice [DOJ] probable cause for executing the Aug. 8 search-and-seizure of classified White House documents kept by former President Donald Trump in a locked storage room at his Mar-a-Lago estate. All that’s known from the heavily redacted document is that Trump is under investigation for violating the Presidential Records Act, Title 18, Section 270 of the U.S. Code pertaining to proper handling of White House documents and the 1917 Espionage Act, where certain provisions exist regarding handling of classified docs. So, when all is said-and-done, Trump, through his arrogance or carelessness, violated technical aspects of U.S. record-keeping acts. DOJ officials showed it had the probable cause to remove the documents from Trump’s custody. FBI officials confirmed it removed 25 boxes, containing 11 sets of classified records.
Watching the media jump up-and-down over anything that could result in indictments against Trump, provides the 24/7 media plenty to talk about, diverting attention away from real threats to U.S. national security. Judging by the media’s obsession with Trump, you’d think they’d pay attention to real threats to U.S. national security. It’s obvious from the contents of the boxes seized at Mar-a-Lago, Trump and his handlers didn’t pay much attention to anything leaving the White House in haste after it was clear he lost the 2020 election. So, when it comes to scrutinizing contents of boxes removed from Mar-a-Lago, it’s clear it was considered by Trump’s underlings as worthless junk. Now the DOJ, FBI and the press want to scrutinize the contents in order to charge Trump with some records violation. While the DOJ can certainly get technical on Trump, is that really in the county’s best interest?
Whatever the classification of documents shoved into boxes, it matters little in the scheme of things while 79-year-old President Joe Biden prosecutes a proxy war against the Russian Federation. What could threaten U.S. national security more than a war with Russia or China? Talking about technical violations of various U.S. records acts sounds petty when looking at the big picture today threatening U.S. national security. Why doesn’t the media give any attention to Biden’s proxy war in Ukraine against the Kremlin? All the talk is about Trump’s baggage handlers shoving a bunch of worthless documents, classified or not, into crates to leave the White House. Can the DOJ really make the case that Trump deliberately sold or traded classified documents to foreign governments or anyone else? DOJ and FBI can make a federal case against Trump but for what purpose?
When Trump’s backers talk about the politics behind the Aug. 8 raid on Mar-a-Lago, it’s not out of the blue. Deputy Atty. Gen. Lisa Monaco ran Crossfire Hurricane, the counterintelligence investigation by 62-uyear-old former FBI Directory James Comey, accusing Trump of colluding with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election. Comey never admitted the obvious that he used former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s paid opposition research AKA the Steele dossier as probable cause. So when the DOJ and FBI talk about probable cause in the heavily redacted warrant to search-and-seize documents at Mar-a-Lago, it’s reasonable to ask questions. Knowing that Lisa Monaco runs the Mar-a-Lago operation raises eyebrows because she was an Obama deep-stater. What are people supposed to think when the FBI raids a former president’s residence?
According to the DOJ and the media, the boxes removed from a locked Mar-a-Lago storage room contained some of the most sensitive national security information. Well, if that’s true, what’s contained in the White House today with Biden’s proxy war against the Russian Federation? Just because the U.S. hasn’t committed troops to battle the Russian Federation, doesn’t mean that supplying Ukraine unlimited arms-and-cash to fight a bloody proxy war against Russia doesn’t contain the most highly classified U.S. secrets. So, how can boxes of largely worthless trash contain all the damaging information to U.S. national security? Trump kept the country safe for four years from any military adventure, keeping the economy growing without hyper-inflation over his four years in office. But suddenly, according to the DOJ and the press, Trump retained vital U.S. national security secrets.
If the government charges Trump under the 1917 Espionage Act, what are they going to charge Biden with for going to war against the Kremlin? Why has Biden tossed multiple generations of U.S. relations with Russia under the bus, trashed generations of diplomacy, practical relations with American adversaries? What can Biden be charged with threatening WW II on the European Continent, adopting Ukraine, despite having no national security significance to the U.S. Whatever problem Ukraine has with Russian President Vladimir Putin, why should the U.S. take on that burden? When you talk about national security significance to Trump’s worthless boxed trash, how does that compare to the real breach of U.S. national security happening under the Biden’s watch? Why has the press fixated on Trump, asking no questions what Biden’s doing to U.S. national security with his proxy war against the Kremlin?
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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.
