If this ham fisted raid was intended to destroy what remained of Trump’s credibility, it has backfired spectacularly
THIS is how democracy ends. Or maybe, just maybe, how civil war starts. After the surgically-embalmed octogenarian Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of America’s parliament, jetted into Taiwan to proclaim her country’s enduring commitment to freedom, back home her bought-and-paid-for goons were staging a politically-motivated, prime-time raid on the home of her sworn enemy Donald Trump.
As events unfolded on live television, it was like watching one of those old conspiracy-theory movies, starring Robert Redford or Gene Hackman.
In the latest Hollywood-inspired version, Trump is this year’s Enemy of the State.
The FBI’s stormtrooper tactics at Bad Orange Man’s gaudy Mar-a-Lago compound in Palm Beach, Florida, could have come straight from the playbook of the Chinese Communist Party.
Their risible excuse for this outrageous abuse of Trump’s privacy and civil rights was a warrant issued by a federal judge in search of classified documents allegedly taken by the former President when he was evicted from the White House, screaming and kicking about a stolen election.
But then again, that makes it sound like a big deal, rather than a technical breach of protocol.
And in the U.S., a warrant from a federal judge is easier to obtain than a rubbery 99-cent cheeseburger from a 24-hour gas station fast food outlet.
Whenever the Feds fancy kicking someone’s door down on the most spurious of grounds, there is always a tame judge happy to oblige.
These days, they don’t have to rouse some drunken jurist from his Jack Daniels-soaked pit in Gopher’s Gulch, somewhere in Middle America. They’ve got a judge in Washington D.C. on speed dial, eager to do their bidding.
Just as the suffocating tentacles of the New Labour cultural revolution control every aspect of alleged public service in Britain, so, too, do the Clintonian Democrats pull all the strings in Washington. The Feds, and the justice department, are their own private army — in the same way that Police Scotland dance obligingly to Wee Burney’s Toytown Tartanista bagpipes.
So it was no real surprise when shock troops from the nation’s capital swarmed into the reclaimed Mar-a-Lago swamp.
Missing documents were merely the pretext for a high-profile embarrassment of the former Commander-in-Chief.
After all, the FBI couldn’t have cared less when the ghastly Hillary Clinton — then Secretary of State and Democrat Presidential candidate — took a Black+Decker drill to 33,000 allegedly confidential emails on her own laptop.
If the Feds wanted sight of whatever The Donald kept on his iPad they could always have asked his lawyers.
Not that I imagine Trump has many secrets. He suffers from serious social media incontinence. Too much information, rather than too little. Lets it all hang out.
Nope, this was another shocking example of the process becoming the punishment.
The intention was to portray Trump as guilty of something, anything — and divert attention away from Creepy Uncle Joe and his dodgy business dealings with nefarious foreign actors, via his druggy, whoreing son Hunter. Astonishingly, it came just hours after I drew the parallels between the deranged Establishment pursuit of Trump and the persecution of Boris by the laughably biased Parliamentary Standards Committee.
The Dems are desperate to stop Trump running again, after polls showed him trouncing not just Biden but any other opponent.
They want to shoo-in California ‘liberal’ Gavin Newsom, a toothy, vacuous Left-wing poster boy who has let crime and illegal immigration rip in the once ‘Golden State’.
For the record, this isn’t a pro-Trump column. More than a year ago, I wrote here that he should stand aside and give Florida’s impressive 43-year-old Republican governor Ron DeSantis a free run at the White House.
Trump’s greatest quality was that he managed to annoy all the right people. Plus, he was a big fan of Brexit.
Otherwise, he’s a megalomaniac fantasist and about as appetising as our own Apprentice frontman ‘Lord’ Sugar. Then again, he is a politician.
The terrifying fact here is that if the Deep State — America’s equivalent of our own Blob — can crucify a former President, then no one is safe.
Curiously, if this ham-fisted raid was intended to destroy what was left of Trump’s credibility, it has backfired spectacularly.
As of today, it looks like Trump stands more chance of getting re-elected, not less.
Even those who are by no means Trump fans have been horrified by the over-reach of the FBI, the Justice Department and the Democrat Establishment.
Within about half an hour of the news breaking, the usual Make America Great Again suspects were picketing Mar-a-Lago. Yet apart from Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News channel, currently in the throes of distancing themselves from Trump, the mainstream American media went out of their way to downplay the raid.
Hilariously, the absurdly Left-wing CNN network yesterday led their main morning bulletin not on the Trump story, but on the news that prices in the shops were falling. Allegedly. You couldn’t make it up. These days the mainstream media in the U.S. make the BBC look impartial.
Still, it helps the fantasy being peddled by the White House that America isn’t in recession, despite the economy going into freefall for the past two quarters.
Like the Left in Britain, U.S. Democrats have adopted Meghan Markle’s subjective interpretation of what amounts to the ‘truth’.
Look, none of this gives me any pleasure. It’s no secret that I’ve been in love with the United States since my first trip to Detroit as a teenager in 1969,
the year of Woodstock and the Moon landings.
My immediate family — not me — moved to America more than 40 years ago. My sister Vivienne is a U.S. citizen.
I’m flying to Michigan in a few days’ time to conduct a Midsummer Memorial Service for my mum, who died in March.
I’ve always believed that America is the world’s last best hope. And despite what’s going on right now, I still cling to that belief.
Otherwise, the game’s up and Putin and the Chinese have won.
Call me an optimist, but for as long as I can remember I’ve bought in to Ronald Reagan’s vision of the U.S. as a shining city on a hill.
But having watched the raid on Mar-a-Lago unfold on TV last night, to borrow a phrase from Paul Simon . . . Michigan seems like a dream to me now.
American friends I’ve caught up with recently are deeply depressed about the state of their nation.
I first came here when the embers of the Detroit race riots were still smouldering. But I can’t recall a time when this great nation was more divided. The good old boys in their pick-up trucks who turned
Another shocking example of the process becoming the punishment
Political class holds the people in contempt
out in Palm Beach on Monday night are the tip of the iceberg.
Decent, patriotic folk, even those who can’t stand Trump, are disgusted at the horrifying anti-democratic antics of the Deep State.
Somehow America, like Britain, has spawned a political class that holds the people who pay their wages in utter contempt and are prepared to go to any lengths to destroy those who threaten their hegemony.
And don’t think it couldn’t happen at home, either. If Boris Johnson had a house on the beach in Margate, rather than at Mar-a-Lago, the Common Purposebrainwashed Plods who brought you Operation Midland wouldn’t hesitate in raiding that, too.
We can only hope that the political assassination of Boris and this week’s bungled effort by the FBI to discredit Trump prove to be the high-water mark of the Deep State/ Blob conspiracy to undermine for ever democracy in the West.
For America, in particular, to heal, the future demands the retreat of the CCP-style Deep State and magnanimity on the behalf of Trump, who should accept that he has the Establishment rattled and then graciously withdraws from the fray in favour of someone like DeSantis. It’s the greatest service he could do his country.
Sadly, I’m not convinced that’s going to happen. But the alternative is civil war. And that’s too horrible to contemplate.