We’re not legacy media, where we can lie, cheat, steal, and be shameless about it, though there are times when I wish our side would be a little more. But it’s a crucial part of this story, and I got it wrong. At least, that’s what the indictment lays out in the Trump classified document investigation.
The other shoe has dropped, and Donald Trump now faces two criminal trials while still being the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee. There are multiple angles to take here, but the 49-page document details how there were boxes of nuclear secrets at Mar-a-Lago, something that I laughed off months ago. When FBI agents ransacked Donald Trump’s home in August 2022, the follow-up stories ranged from mundane to ludicrous, and one was the allegation that federal officials thought Trump took nuclear secrets when he left the White House. Now, with the indictment, it looked like he did.
First read of indictment and my reaction is “That’s it? The conspiracy is with the aide who moved the boxes? No documents were sold or given to third parties not in his close employ?” https://t.co/47bvO7H4yT
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) June 9, 2023
The Bragg indictment was weak, tendentiously argued, and transparently politically motivated. This federal indictment is devastating.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) June 9, 2023
There are two camps here. Some, like Hugh Hewitt, don’t see anything criminal, while others, like Charles Cooke of National Review, see it as “devastating” compared to the Alvin Bragg-Stormy Daniels indictment over hush money payments. Trump faces several charges, which carry a prison sentence of 75 years behind bars if convicted. The tapes leaked before the indictment, whose partial transcript is in the indictment, probably explained why Trump’s legal team met with the Biden Department of Justice days before the former president was slapped with more federal charges.
Wow. From the just unsealed Trump indictment. pic.twitter.com/QdDPoUm4tS
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) June 9, 2023
The recordings were damning, given how Bragg stretched the legalese to indict Trump; it would make getting him on this classified document case much more effortless. It did. The letter informing that Trump was under a criminal investigation was sent hours before, a federal heads-up to most in the legal crosshairs that charges are coming.
Now, the ulterior motives here are plentiful. Trump was hovering in the low 50s regarding the 2024 GOP nomination polls. Ron DeSantis had announced and was slowly creeping up on the former president. Democrats had to do something to be done to ensure Trump’s path to the nomination was unimpeded. This indictment will boost his numbers with GOP voters incensed over these political games. The left wants Trump to be the nominee; these legal actions pour gasoline on the fire. With Trump at the helm for 2024, the entire Republican Party will be incapable of campaigning as every candidate running will be asked about the drama engulfing Trump.
The other angle is that this was a classic political countermeasure move. The FBI had just turned over an incriminating document from a confidential source allegedly showing Joe Biden neck-deep in a bribery scheme involving Burisma where a foreign national paid him $5 million. The FBI’s informant, who fears for his or her life if exposed, might have spoken with the man who allegedly bribed the president. Biden had to sign off on the Trump investigation, and the timing isn’t lost on anyone. This smoking gun is found, and Trump is indicted 36 hours later. Please. It speaks to the ongoing narrative that the FBI is covering for Biden, protecting Democrats, and being their police force.
Screaming about these acts of bias does nothing to erase Trump’s looming court dates, ones that will be accentuated should he clinch the nomination, hamstringing the GOP for another winnable election cycle. Could he pardon himself? Sure, but it’s these unconventional initiatives that most voters have zero patience for anymore. There’s already a coalition that can fend off Trump and his candidates. They’ve been around for three cycles, and any attempt to win them back is done now.
Is this election interference? Oh, for sure—that charge is arguable at worst and confirmed at best. It’s not the first time the FBI has interfered in an election. And as long as we have Democrats who lean on illegally spying on their political enemies and are beholden to a post-constitutional mindset, they will continue to do so with impunity.
