What worked in the 2020 presidential election is apparently Democrats’ strategy heading into the Midterm elections, keeping former President Donald Trump front-and- center in all media topics. DOJ and FBI Aug/ 8 raid on Trump’s Palm Beach Mar-a-Lago residence removing some 25 boxes of worthless documents and memorabilia has dominated the headlines, doing exactly what Democrats wanted in the run-up before the Midterm election. All that the New York Times, Washington Post and media talk about are Trump’s reckless behavior, removing boxes of classified material from the White House in his hasty retreat from the White House right before the Jan. 20, 2021 inauguration. Now 53-year-old Director of National Intelligence [DNI] Avril Haines said she will review documents removed from Mar-a-Lago to assess their risk to U.S. national security.
Haines involvement gives the media more to write and talk about related to all the alleged crimes committed, violating U.S. Code Title 18, Chapter 271 related to the proper handling of classified documents. When you add to that, a possible violation of the Presidential Records Act and 1917 Espionage Act, you’ve got the media doing exactly to Trump what they did in 2020 election. Trump was in the news daily taking the blame for the media for the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd, catching the media’s scorn for his white supremacy and racism. So, the Democrat Party had a perfect strategy for Trump in 2020, demonize Trump for racism in America. When you add to that the same media consumed with the Covid-19 global pandemic, blaming Trump for botching the U.S. response, causing more U.S. deaths than any country in the world, Democrats had the perfect election strategy. By the time the election rolled around, Trump was the personification of evil in America.
Avril Haines involvement in reviewing the content of documents removed from Mar-a-Lago to determine is purely related to keeping Trump in the news before the Midterm election. President Joe Biden, 79, speaking at a fundraiser in Rockville, Md., last week blasted Trump and his MAGA movement as “semi-fascist,” another one of Joe’s non sequiturs. Biden repeats the same Democrat talking points that painted Trump as a racist in the 2020 election. Keep Trump in the news to rally the Democrat base before the Midterm elections. What better way to do that than to raid Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence to recover worthless documents removed from the White House, not for some nefarious reason but because Trump didn’t have the right people supervising his hasty move from the White House. Yes, technically, Trump violated U.S. records acts but it that any reason to charge him with treason?
In a letter to the House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Haines said she would assess the damage to U.S. national security from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents. “The Department of Justice [DOJ] and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence [ODNI] are working together to facilitate a classification review of relevant materials, including those recovered rung the search,” Haines wrote to Congress. Haines was the same person who told Biden she could not determine the origin of the deadly novel coronavirus because China would not cooperate. Biden asked Haines May 27, 2021 to spend three months to determine the virus origin. Haines had plenty of data but chose to continue the cover-up, just like Dr. Anthony Fauci, doing everything to hide the origin of the virus.
Now Haines is supposed to review the national security significance of worthless boxes of documents kept in Trump’s locked basement, never seeing the light of day. Where’s Haines using her office to asses the risk to U.S. national security of Biden’s proxy war against the Kremlin, saying only last week that he will continue supplying Ukraine cash and lethal weapons for the foreseeable future. Where’s Haines weighing in on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Aug. 4 visit to Taiwan that infuriated the Chinese Communists, threatening to invade Tawain, starting another potential world war. No, Democrats and press want to only talk about Trump because that’s how they won the 2020 presidential election. Forget about Trump’s claims of election fraud, Democrat made a strong enough case to the public that Trump was the personification of evil, a threat to U.S. democracy.
Democrats and the press are all in on keeping Trump in the news for threatening U.S. national security, by removing boxes of worthless junk from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago residence. “The DOJ affidavit, partially unsealed yesterday, affirms our grave concerns that among the documents stored at Mar-a-Lago were those that could endanger human sources. It is critical that the IC move swiftly to asses and, if necessary, to mitigate the danger done—a process that should proceed in parallel with the DOJ’s criminal investigation,” Maloney said. So, for Maloney the biggest threat to U.S. national security is Trump’s worthless documents kept in a locked Mar-a-Lago basement. Haines or other partisan Democrats have no interest in real threats to U.S. national security that has to do with Biden’s abysmal foreign policy, alienating Russia and China to the point to war.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnists.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
