The FBI Did Its Job

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

Yesterday morning agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation showed up at Donald Trump's home and resort, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, search warrant-in-hand.   News of the raid was made public through a press release from Trump that evening, a lengthy diatribe in which he tried to paint the raid as a political attack whose aim was to derail his self-ballyhooed political comeback.

Although the reason for the FBI's unannounced search of Trump's Florida residence remains unclear, some reports indicate that it is related to a cache of classified national security documents that were recovered from the property by the National Archives and Records Administration in February of this year.  At that time NARA reportedly removed fifteen boxes of sensitive documents that were the rightful property of the United States government.

Trump, who traditionally spends August at his Bedminster Golf Club in New Jersey, was not at his Florida home during the FBI raid, but he was reportedly kept abreast of the situation by his son, Eric, who was at Mar-a-Lago during the government search of the property.  By yesterday evening a statement had been drafted in which Daddy Trump vented his displeasure at the government incursion into one of his sanctuaries - including a complaint that the FBI agent had even broken into his safe.

In his public statement Donald Trump complained that the raid was:

" . . . prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don't want me to run for President in 2024 . . . "

(Note:  The Federal Bureau of Investigation is headed by Christopher Wray, a man who was appointed to that position by Donald Trump.)

From there the statement drifted toward general incoherence and even included a couple of attacks on Hillary Clinton, one of which accused her of stealing antiques from the White House.  Clearly Trump had been rattled by what he saw as a violation of his privacy, and he was making an attempt to turn a law enforcement matter into something that could benefit him politically - and maybe settle a few old scores in the process.

Through it all the Federal Bureau of Investigation remained composed and silent.  The agency undoubtedly had enough evidence to  convince some very important people in the Justice Department of the need for a search of the Trump property - and it was able to show enough probable cause to convince a federal judge to sign off on a warrant to search the personal abode of a former President of the United States.    

It wasn't a spur-of-the-moment operation, or a political dirty-trick, or a witch-hunt.  The FBI raid on the Palm Beach home of Donald Trump was a part of a carefully planned and executed law enforcement operation by our nation's premier law enforcement agency, one that has undoubtedly been in the works for many months.   It was good police work on steroids.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation did its job!