“The documents were declassified!”
“Trump had every right keep them!”
“They posed no risk to national security!”
Conservatives have been defending Trump with these kinds of arguments ever since the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago last month. They’re missing the point, though. Seeking to prove that Trump did nothing wrong in possessing these documents is like trying to establish that the victims of Stalin’s show trials weren’t in fact Trotskyites. Well, of course they weren’t.
But Stalin didn’t care if his enemies – perceived or real – were Trotskyites or “counter-revolutionaries.” What mattered to him was that they were his enemies. And that’s why we call their legal proceedings “show trials.” They weren’t exercises in justice; they were facades for political suppression.
Did Trump commit a crime? I doubt it. Democrats have spent six years and tens of millions of dollars investigating virtually every step he’s taken in his life. So far, they’ve come up with nothing. Which means that although Trump seems impetuous, he evidently hires excellent lawyers who ensure he always remains within the bounds of the law.
But at the end of the day, the question of Trump’s innocence is irrelevant. Because what we’re witnessing is not a legal investigation but a political crusade – aided by the Justice Department – to crush a man it can’t stand. And if we allow the left to win this battle, we will have allowed it to cross a line from which there may be no turning back.
For this isn’t about Trump. It’s about the left doing whatever it takes to retain political and ideological control of this country. As one political commentator has pointed out, Trump represents everything the left hates, everything they’ve spent 50 years trying to eradicate. He exudes male energy. He loves America. For heaven’s sake, he even supports torturing terrorists!
And then there’s that story he gleefully relates about General “Blackjack” Pershing allegedly ordering that Muslim terrorists be shot with bullets dipped in pig’s blood. Perhaps, worst of all, Trump doesn’t cry, apologize, or share his feelings. Essentially, Trump in many respects is a throwback to 1950s America. And there’s nothing the left hates more than the values of 1950s America.
The left will tolerate a Republican who seeks to lower tax rates by a percentage point or two. It will even tolerate a Republican who claims to oppose abortion or illegal immigration. As long as he doesn’t seriously interfere with the “progressive march of history.” As long as he piously apologizes for the sins of our past.
So you can praise Thomas Jefferson – as long as you also criticize him for owning slaves. You can praise men – as long as you also denounce male toxicity. But Trump won’t play ball. He reflexively, and unabashedly, admires America and manly “toughness.” He refuses to pay even lip service to the pieties of The New York Times’ editorial board. Indeed, he mocks The Times and claims not to even read it. For the left, that’s intolerable; Trump must be crushed.
And it’s precisely because the left so badly wants to crush him – and, more importantly, what he represents – that we need to defend him. For we mustn’t fool ourselves: If the left succeeds in indicting and arresting Trump, it will indict and arrest the next unapologetic Republican who appears on the scene too. And then the next one. And then the next one. The left won’t stop. It knows no boundaries. It recognizes no rules. Whatever it takes.
Most Republicans are, by nature, calm, law-abiding citizens. They like following rules and hate playing dirty. But the call of the hour may require us to set aside our nature. For we really only have two options: Do whatever is necessary to make sure Trump remains a free man or let radical leftists destroy the America we know and love.
There is no third option.
And we better take a stand now. For the left will only grow stronger with each victory it achieves. Censoring voices on social media already seems normal to us. Soon arresting one’s political opponents will seem normal too. When we finally decide to fight back, it may be too late. So let’s hold the line – now.
The leftist pricks spent tens of millions spending OUR money.
A leftist is only generous with other people’s money; hence reimbursing disgraced FBI goon McCabe (lied under oath) with a 7 figure pension. They even reimbursed his legal fees.
Our tax dollars well squandered.
Soros funded DAs burn through piles of tax revenue to conduct malicious witch-hunts on patriots, while gleefully freeing criminal AntiFa, BLM rioters, felons with long rap sheets, etc.
FBI will alow islamist pricks to travel to terrorist training camps, e-mail & plan attacks, and wave ISIS flags unmolested. (Tsarnaevs made good use of their welfare checks; San Bernardino terrorists posted their intent well in advance.)
Syrian “refugees” were shipped here (not to Martha’s Vineyard) at the low low price of $67,000 a head.
Our tax dollars are being put to good use – to turn America into a 3rd world cesspool.
It seems we are being destabilized by the world’s foremost experts at the activity.
Will the Destabilization survive the Election?
Will the Election survive the Destabilization?
Do we get to decide our governance ourselves, our have we already moved past such quaint notions?
How can anyone defend him having these documents if you read the 1978 Presidential Records act?
Uh, leftist judge of the District Court for the D.C. District Court Amy Berman Jackson found in the 2012 case Judicial Watch v. NARA that the decision of what records constitute personal presidential papers rests entirely and exclusively in the discretion of the President. ” But even if the Court were inclined to agree with plaintiff’s reassessment of President Clinton’s decision, it would not alter the conclusion that the injury cannot be redressed: the PRA does not confer any mandatory or even discretionary authority on the Archivist to classify records. Under the statute, this responsibility is left solely to the President. 44 U.S.C. § 2203(a)- (b).”
Trump is not the president. He is an ex president. He has no business hanging on to classified records once he is out of office.
Try rereading the paragraph.
The President has plenary authority. His presumed access is indisputable. Period.
My God man. Presidents are allowed to declassify EVERYTHING in their time. They use much of it for their Library. Clinton Did, Obama Did but Trump can’t? Shake your head. Even if something was classified at one time, once the event/whatever it is called is over it is no longer secretive or classified. Stop showing your Democrat bias!
Uh, no documents in President Trump’s possession were classified. But number 44 can take 30 million documents upon his leaving the WH, have those documents taken to an abandoned warehouse in Chicago and stored under tight security, aka, inaccessible to inquiring minds, and nothing happens to that grossly overrated, narcissist ???
Or, sweetie, snookums hillary intentionally and willfully obliterates thousands of emails from the shrew’s computer and she is still free as a turd, I mean, bird ?
Trump had the temerity to wade into the dark, foreboding, fetid swamp, filled with evil, lying, dangerous, deranged creatures, and for that, he is anathema to those pukes ? They best enjoy their successes now, as eternity will not be tolerant, or forgiving of, them at all.
There is NO right way, to do a wrong thing.
Like Alinsky said in “Rules for Radicals” (I have read it, BTW), what you are after is power–the maintenance and wielding of power. And, as we all know, the ends justify the means.
We do not need to act “against our nature” to respond to lawlessness with extreme prejudice. The right to bear arms presupposes this. Justifiable homicide. Self-defense. Temporary insanity, etc.
The FBI is no longer the grand all American patriotic law enforcement institution to it once was in the past. Now it’s only been influenced thoroughly infiltrated and corrupted and infected by the politically correct insidious and sinister activists of the Red/Green alliance and now the FBI is their tool for Joe Biden as well as the stooge organization acting for Nancy Pelosi and the others of the “power elate” un-American subversives as her.
The FBI is the new KGB directed by the socialists of the United States. Lawless and evil doing things against Americans.
That horrible Joe Biden willingly allows those who a far more intelligent than him in their insidious and manipulative ways to control the now politically correct corrupted FBI that has been thoroughly influenced and infiltrated by those active in the Red/Green alliance to come down hard on Conservatives.
Biden going so far as to slanderously label them as “extremists” and White supremacists” All the while ignoring and eve supporting the real extremist as those violent and murderous Marxist hooligans of Antifa and BLM.
The Biden regime now uses the FBI as it’s tool to come down hard in persecution of that average American patriot citizen,
For that treasonous treacherous villain, “president” pretender Biden has cause and will continue cause tremendous harm.
Furthermore, as declared before and worth declaring again. Which is that “Joe Biden is an affront to the Presidency of the United States and a disgrace to the US Constitution as well as a catastrophe for America and a disaster for the American people.”
What Joe Biden did by having the corrupted Red /Green alliance infiltrated FBI to invade the home of Donald Trump is an action of a tyrant.
Related this is that since Biden sitting in the Oval Office of the White House, he had said that any President who gets things done by executive orders and not popular consensus is a dictator. A dictator and tyrant Joe Biden, truly, is.
Apparently of officials in power in the Federal Bureau of Investigation have never read or don’t really believe in the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. This is because the Biden/ Harris / Pelosi regime had the FBI conduct an old time like Soviet type invasion of the home of Donald Trump in a raid of political harassment.
What a terrible abuse of Federal power, which was not what, the FBI was originally designed to be used for.
Maybe the now thoroughly corrupted infiltrated, FBI by far -left wing with Red/Green alliance is so ingrained in that formerly good federal organization the damage done to that institution might be completely irreversible. As beyond repair and reform.
As Abraham Lincoln has, so wisely, said “You can’t unscramble eggs.”
Trump spoke well when he said that the left is not after him so much as it is after us, and that he (Trump) was just standing in the way.
Why is there no longer an “edit” or “like” function. Really miss both.
What are patriotic Americans doing about these actions of our corrupt Biden administration, the corrupt DOJ, and the corrupt FBI?? That FBI raid happened a month ago, and all I read about are the objections of the GOP and some of the Trump supporters–more like a continuous newscast. Even worse, many of the protestors from the January 6th riot are still in solitary confinement in a DC prison–many on charges of misdemeanor trespassing–while real criminals are set free immediately without bail. I am a Christian Constitutional Conservative. I am also as fed up with the weak-kneed Republicans as I am disgusted by the so-called Left, who are really the Progressive Socialists if not Communists. I know that the MSM is not reporting anything that goes against their Agenda, but I cannot believe that the average American citizen is unaware of the ongoing destruction of America and our Constitution.
Oh, another Trump can do whatever he wants, and it’s perfectly alright with me.
C’mon Trumpsters, you’re all asking yourselves “what the heck was Trump doing with all those documents?”
Who the heck knows what goes on inside Trump’s brain?
Nevertheless, his apologists refuse to stare reality in the face and conclude that Trump lost his marbles a long time ago.
A year and one half ago The National Archives requested Trump return all the classified and unclassified documents he took down to Florida after he LEGITIMATELY!!! lost to Biden in 2020.
Trump returned some of them, and lied about returning many more.
Finally, the NARA had enough and ordered the FBI to retrieve the rest of the documents Trump had purloined for God knows what reason.
The bigger question: why does Trump do stupid things like that? It would take an army of psychiatrists to figure that out.
Gullibility is not a virtue.
You assume that we want to know what Donald Trump was doing with all the documents that he took. If you watched anything other that the MSM you would know that he took the documents that he had already declassified for his future presidential museum. He was cooperating with the FBI already and had given them full access to them. Everything the FBI did during the raid was illegitimate–refusing to let Trump’s lawyers observe their actions, having an illegal, over-broad subpoena so they could take all the documents from his entire administration, going through Melania’s wardrobe, and putting out several documents on the floor so they could photograph them and insinuate that Trump was not keeping them secure. Trump has a brilliant brain–unlike the current man occupying the presidential office.
The LEFT simply wants a strong, two party system:
the party in power, and
the party in handcuffs.
The DemocRATS live in abject fear of Donald J.Trump as they KNOW he knows where all the bodies are buried and they may have thought he had certain papers on them that will bring them all to Justice once he is reinstated in the White House but they have tried this tactic for the four years he was in Office and they are now really pissed off that they cant find any of the mud they throw at him too stick.
Remember when Trump said Baltimore was a rat infested City and instantly the DemocRATS thought of black people.
Weird that huh?.
It seems entirely possible ( and I didn’t think this up ) that the raid was to recover those documents revealing the origins of Spygate, beginning way before Gen Flynn, and nailing Obama with deep corruption. Hence the notion that documents were marked FISA.
Trump is a reformer.
They fear him. January Sixth was a corruption protest.
They heard the peoples’ voice and they soiled themselves. Consider their behavior as evidence of guilt.
When Donald Trump first told his supporters “In reality they’re not after me, they’re after you–I’m just in the way” it seemed rather self-serving. Now…not so much.
“Hold the line”?? Seriously? This is the best u can say?!
God almighty you people are pathetic. These are leftist scum, not uber nazis.
Did you forget that these miserable criminal scumbags openly stole the election? THE ELECTION.
This isnt some random debate point. My God what the hell does it take with you miserable effete pussies?
You should be openly demanding the arrest and trial of THE ENTIRE DNC LEADERSHIP.
That means EVERYONE.
But instead you make these stupid points. Youre like a beaten man whose wife recently stabbed him and he’s complaining that she doesnt respect his opinion.
Seriously, its absolutely pathetic.
to make the things simpler: look what happened in israel where the left was 1 yr in government: they broke all rules, used all justice system (DA, judges, police, the ministries personnel installed by them) in order to put in jail the former prime minister (a sort of republican) inventing 3 different trials based on “witnesses” proved liars by the defence or simply declared that the police and DA forced them to make false depositions.
in the same time leftist ministers with heavy accusations were not even summoned to the police or interrogated.
all the media, 3 tv channels, and all principal newspapers published disinformation, tendentious leaks from all the systems before the trials, during the trials.
it is so fraudulent that at opinion polls about the justice system credibility, just 20 % pf the public believe that the system is not corrupted.
the users of tweeter and phasebook expressing opinions, discussion about the corrupted system, are blocked !
so, America take care you can see the example. use it ! vote republican!