Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
It should be pretty obvious that the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago was an attempt to seize evidence likely to be used in former President Donald Trump’s civil lawsuit in the Southern Florida Federal District Court against Hillary Clinton and associated defendants in and out of government for the defamation and racketeering operation known as RussiaGate — AND in any future criminal proceedings that might grow out of congressional investigations-to-come against officials past and present in the DOJ and FBI. The idea is to tie up all those documents in a legal dispute about declassification so they can’t be entered in any proceeding.
Over the weekend, independent journalist Paul Sperry reported that many of the same FBI officers involved in the Mar-a-Lago raid happen to be subjects of Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation into the origins of RussiaGate. Have some of them already been hauled into grand juries? We don’t know. But, with the Mar-a-Lago caper, it looks like the law enforcement apparatus of the federal government is seeking to suppress evidence of its own long-running criminal enterprise.
The parallel purpose of the raid was to find — or perhaps plant — documents that might be used in a scheme to disqualify Mr. Trump from running for office again. The January 6th show-trial in Congress has failed to galvanize the country’s attention, and may have foundered in its attempt to find grounds for a criminal referral against the former president that would take him off the playing field. So, now this.
Momentous legal quarrels that arise out of the Mar-a-Lago raid may evolve into a constitutional crisis that the captive news media can use as a smokescreen to divert the public’s attention from any balloting shenanigans going into the November election. At least it will shove any other issues off-stage in the run-up to the midterm. Is it a miscalculation?
The choice of going to federal magistrate Bruce Reinhart for the Mar-a-Lago warrant sure looks crude and desperate. Only weeks ago, he was presiding over the Trump v Clinton lawsuit. How did that even happen, given Mr. Reinhart’s role defending Jeffrey Epstein’s associates — many of them Clinton-connected — in the 2007 sex-trafficking case? And only after the spectacularly weird act of switching sides from the federal prosecution team to Epstein’s defense team. Not to mention Mr. Reinhart’s record of public statements denouncing Mr. Trump. There are twenty-five other magistrates who rotate their duties in the Southern District of Florida, why pick him?
It all shapes up as a systematic effort to obstruct justice by the US Department of Justice. They’ve been doing it consistently since 2016 in all matters pertaining to Mr. Trump, and it is a big reason that the country is now viciously coming apart. This is just a continuation of the same seditious treachery that went on with James Comey releasing his classified interview memo concerning Mr. Trump to The New York Times via his attorney friend from Columbia University, Daniel Richman; and the ensuing dishonest Mueller investigation the leak provoked; and the Crossfire Hurricane operation run by Peter Strzok, Andrew McCabe, and Rod Rosenstein; and the illegal entrapment and prosecution of National Security Advisor Michael Flynn; and the serial misrepresentations to the FISA court; and the illegal coordinated maneuvers in impeachment #1 between Rep. Adam Schiff, ICIG Michael Atkinson, the National Security Council, and CIA-agent Eric Ciaramella posing as a “whistleblower;” and more recently, the mischief around the FBI’s conjured-up Gretchen Witmer kidnapping scheme; and the FBI’s role in turning the January 6, 2020 election protests into a riot at the US Capitol.
Former president Trump is not without resources and recourse in all this. Though the news media does not follow it, the Trump v Clinton lawsuit trial continues, and it might not go so well for Mrs. Clinton and her friends. Criticism and doubts about Special Counsel John Durham aside for a moment, realize that evidence introduced during the March trial of DNC lawyer Michael Sussman has firmly established that the Hillary Clinton campaign, the DNC, the Perkins Coie law firm, and various private contractors created the Russian collusion narrative that evolved into the FBI/DOJ crimes of RussiaGate. It won’t be difficult to prove these parties’ intentions in all that, namely to drive Mr. Trump from office or disable him in the process. Do you think Mr. Trump can’t make that case against his antagonists? This is not being tried in the pliant DC federal district court. A Florida jury may see exactly what happened.
Let’s also suppose that Mr. Trump and his aides were pretty scrupulous about collecting documentary evidence about these shenanigans over the years they took place. Mr. Trump did indeed order the declassification and de-redaction of reams of pertaining documents before leaving office. Do you suppose that the Supreme Court would not adjudicate any quarrels over them with dispatch? The effrontery (and gross stupidity) of Attorney General Merrick Garland stands in luridly full display. In signing off on the Mar-a-Lago raid warrant, Mr. Garland signed the death warrant on his own reputation and career.
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Worship the king…
The Once and Future King.
He who was and is not…
…and is coming.
And I saw one of its heads as if wounded unto death, but its deadly stroke was healed…
…and all the earth marveled after the beast.
Jim is pretty good at keeping score, but he is too optimistic about winning. When the officials, official score keeper, the announcer, the gym owner…are all playing for the opposite team, well you’re fuqd.
But I wonder who owns the building & property the gym is built on?
Blackrock
Viewing this farrago from across the pond it appears to me that Jim has offered a plausible reason for an apparent irrational putsch against a former President who maybe will again stand in 2024. It clearly is a deep rabbit hole of cover-up on cover-up upon…..deeper and deeper we go.
There is no question in my mind that nefarious forces are at work throughout the Western Civ and have been for many long decades but the Internet is slowly waking people up as more and more credible evidence sees the light of day. I read this only today – they will stop at nothing:
https://jimychanga.substack.com/p/wake-up-kids-anti-virus-guy-died
That was interesting, Peter. Thanks, but I don’t know if there is enough no-doze in the world to keep people awake. With crisis, after crisis, after crisis, people begin to tune too much out and look for something that diverts the attention. Just in time, football (not kick ball 😉 ) season begins in the US.
Yes just my concern TNP. For at least 50% of Brits, it’s going to take an earthquake to maybe wake them up but even then this will be blamed on ‘climate change’ so back to snoozing and soccer they go! There’s really is no hope in the end, we need to keep our own counsel and hunker down I guess – but it passes the time in my twilight years.
Not making excuses for them but, I live in fly over country and I hear at the top of the hour the news that is soo biased on the radio. It is no wonder at all the masses are blind. If you work for 8 hours with the radio on day in and day out, well then you are bombarded with their propaganda.
We have the same here with the BBC. I watch some of their items just to identify their tricks of illusion and deception. Currently they are going on incessantly about the ‘new’ vaxx against the Omicron whatever and wheel out ‘scientists’ – some who look decidedly Chinese I might add, and expect the masses to take it all seriously. Fortunately I certainly don’t know anyone who is fooled, but there will some. Maybe it’s best for them to leave the planet early – they will know no different. I ahve lost compassion now – it’s been long enough.
The effrontery (and gross stupidity) of Attorney General Merrick Garland stands in luridly full display. In signing off on the Mar-a-Lago raid warrant, Mr. Garland signed the death warrant on his own reputation and career.
I’m guessing Merrick was promised the next opening on scotus if he would play ball.
>>>Merrick was promised the next opening on scotus
Conceivably… but at a current age of 70, Mr. Garfinkel is not the best investment for Team Chaos.
Not that they would ever lie to gain their objective. If someone gets their reputation trashed, its better a 70 y-o than a young up and comer.
As I was reading this, I enjoyed a short fantasy. To wit:
Through some means, the Donald wins through and is inaugurated into the seat. The next morning he calls the USMC and details them to surround and clear the offices of the FBI and CIA, and the NSA for good measure. Those premises are then sealed, with admittance allowed only for USMC lawyers, who are tasked with trying to put those documents in order. When the House is in session again, funding is suspended for the intelligence agencies, the IRS, the EPA, the CDC, et al. In this way, the draining of the Swamp might begin.
I know, I know. Fantasies, and all that. Still, it’s a pleasant prospect.
Dead before he puts down the phone.
“The next morning he calls the USMC and details them to surround and clear the offices of the FBI and CIA, and the NSA for good measure”
THAT fantasy was what got him elected the first time. drumf played the part when he did his apprenticeship. ANY more words about dudham and i may not be able. To stop laughing.
Maybe he would call his old teacher for advice???
The problem here is what little g god is he wondering about?
WHAT IS THE KABBALAH? (AND WHY IS IT SO BAD?)
That would be a darn fine way to start!