Mr. Garland, with his Trump raid, may only be making a big down payment on the FBI and Justice Department, for the third election in a row, becoming a decisive meddler in our presidential politics. Don’t put it past Mr. Garland’s inherited crew of bumblers to end up electing Mr. Trump a second time.

The Wall Street Journal

A few weeks ago, I wrote off Trump 2024 because he’d lost the Journal, as well as Fox News and the New York Post. Now, after the FBI raided a former president’s home for the first time in America’s history, it’s as if the January 6 hearings never happened. It did not help matters that Marc Elias (infamous Democrat fixer) posted on Twitter right after the raid.

He tweeted, “the raid today is a potential blockbuster in American politics,” adding U.S. Code Title 18, Section 2071: “Whoever, having the custody of any such record, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes [or] destroys the same, shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States” (emphasis mine).

Boy, Elias had better hope the FBI found “unlawfully” removed and destroyed records, because the optics were horrible. No matter what happens, Biden’s DOJ has all but ruined his chances at re-election. If the FBI has no indictable evidence, 74 million voters (and counting) will view Trump as a sympathetic figure in 2024. If the DOJ indicts Trump, they remove the most divisive candidate from the GOP field AND ensure angry MAGA voters turn out en masse.

Let’s get the Democrat spin out of the way.

Biden did not know this was going down. If it wasn’t approved by the President, it was the dumbest move since the Watergate break-in. An FBI raid on the home of Biden’s political rival? C’mon man!

A judge’s subpoena couldn’t get the documents. After Crossfire Hurricane hurt a Republican, and sitting on Hunter Biden’s laptop helped a Democrat, no Republican’s buying this FBI action (especially after reporters found the search warrant’s judge donated to Obama’s campaign and PAC).

Nobody is above the law. This is true for Anthony Weiner and Steve Bannon, who did not win 74 million votes. This is why Nixon was pardoned, Reagan wasn’t hurt by Iran-Contra, and Clinton walked after lying under oath. Why further divide the country to maybe find “unlawful” records at Trump’s home?

The GOP spin is obvious: Democrats so fear Trump they paid for the Pee Tape Dossier, leaked bogus intelligence to the press, tried to impeach him, set up the January 6 committee, and ordered an unprecedented raid on his home. Further, it’s not being summarily dismissed – even by Trump’s antagonists.

Mike Pence is no fan of Donald Trump, but he found common ground. “No former president has ever been subject to a raid of their personal residence in American history. After years where FBI agents were found to be acting on political motivation, yesterday’s action undermines public confidence in our system of justice.”

USA TODAY runs an anti-Trump/anti-MAGA editorial weekly. “Plenty of Republicans would like the party to move past Trump. Yet Democrats, to take the focus off their own failures, are painting Trump as a criminal. In doing so, they risk playing into the former president’s hand.”

87,000 new IRS agents, FBI raids on a former Republican president’s home and seizure of a sitting Republican congressman’s (Scott Perry) mobile phone in front of his vacationing family – – citizens (even disinterested ones) should vote for Republicans (even the oddballs) in November just to empower an opposition party to check this imperial presidency.

By Spencer Morten

The writer is a retired CEO of a US corporation, whose views were informed by studies and work in the US and abroad. An economist by education, and pragmatist by experience, he believes the greatest threat to peace and prosperity are the loudest voices with the least experience and expertise.