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With the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s home Monday, America crossed the Rubicon. American history is full of bitter rivalries and even hatreds between individuals and groups, but never before has one faction used the agencies of the U.S. government to hound, persecute, discredit, and destroy the other. On Tuesday morning, however, numerous patriots were expressing hope: Twitter is full of people saying things on the order of “This assures Trump’s nomination” and even “This assures Trump’s victory in 2024.”
But we have just received new evidence that a principal law enforcement arm of the United States government is deeply corrupt and thoroughly politicized, and apparently willing to do anything to find some crime to pin on Donald Trump so as to prevent him from ever becoming again. We have already seen this agency deeply involved in efforts to frame Trump as colluding with Russia. It’s entirely possible and even likely that we will soon see Trump indicted and even imprisoned. In light of all that, how can anyone be confident that there will even be a free and fair 2024 election?
Consider, by way of contrast, the fact that Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) recently announced that “highly credible” whistleblowers had given him information about FBI efforts to make the Hunter Biden scandal go away. Grassley wrote to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland on July 25 that “the information provided to my office involves concerns about the FBI’s receipt and use of derogatory information relating to Hunter Biden, and the FBI’s false portrayal of acquired evidence as disinformation. The volume and consistency of these allegations substantiate their credibility and necessitate this letter.”
Will anyone hail me as a prognosticator of extraordinary powers when I predict, correctly, that in response to this letter, Wray and Garland will do absolutely nothing, except possibly to cover their tracks more effectively? No, because anyone who has been paying attention can see that.
And Hunter Biden isn’t even close to being the first sign of this institutional corruption. Garland even sicced the FBI on parents protesting at school board meetings over the imposition of the woke agenda in public schools. When challenged, Garland insisted that this was all on the up-and-up: “Parents have been complaining about the education of their children and about school boards since there were such things as school boards and public education. This is totally protected by the First Amendment. True threats of violence are not protected by the First Amendment. Those are the things we are worried about here. Those are the only things we are worried about here. We are not investigating peaceful protests or parent involvement in school board meetings. There is no precedent for doing that and we would never do that. We are only concerned about violence and threats of violence against school administrators, teachers, staff.”
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