Posted on 08/09/2022 8:01:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
The intelligence apparatus is targeting Donald Trump in an attempt to disqualify him from running for president in 2024.
Monday evening, news broke that the FBI conducted a raid on former President Donald Trump’s personal residence, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida. The legal justification for the raid is still somewhat hazy — with some indicating that it stems from the alleged mishandling of classified information — but as Joe Biden’s support plummets, the political reason for it has never been more clear.
On July 28 in Compact Mag, Michael Anton, a former National Security Council staffer in the Trump administration, said, “The people who really run the United States of America have made it clear that they can’t, and won’t, if they can help it, allow Donald Trump to be president again.”
In the same piece, Anton suggested the Jan. 6 committee is laying the “groundwork for an indictment of Trump” and that the Justice Department might charge the former president with “seditious conspiracy.”
Suppose the current administration was truly only concerned about the reclamation of classified documents, as some have suggested — why couldn’t someone simply make a phone call and arrange for a delegation of bureaucrats to go and get them? And considering that this is far from the first time the intelligence apparatus has tried to shanghai Trump and his associates, it becomes pretty obvious that this raid was a show of force.
Indeed, the Biden administration carried out a hit on the ruling party’s most prominent political enemy. According to Trump, the raid was “unannounced.” He decried it as evidence of the “weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for President in 2024.”
Anton posits that the reason “the people who really run the United States” fanatically oppose Trump has less to do with the former president and more to do with “who his followers are.” He suggests that Trump’s followers are so aggressively denied representation because they are out of step with the ideological consensus of the managerial elite who pull the strings and turn the gears of the federal government.
He writes, “Complaints about the nature of Trump are just proxies for objections to the nature of his base. It doesn’t help stabilize our already twitchy situation that those who bleat the loudest about democracy are also audibly and visibly determined to deny a real choice to half the country.”
In the current era, Trump has been the only prominent individual on the national stage to resist the neo-liberal consensus by prioritizing and empowering the American people and the American nation.
Short of outright removing him from this plane of existence, leftists and their associates in the federal government have to use every tool at their disposal to keep Trump off of the ballot, should he choose to run for president once more. As the regime grows increasingly authoritarian, the “people who really run the United States” will continue to try and delegitimize Trump through a series of wanton political hit jobs and straight-up denying him equal protection under the law.
If Trump becomes the forty-seventh president of the United States, he will bring with him an ambition to root out the people who wronged and waylaid him and his voters, most of whom are apparatchiks of the federal bureaucracy. If he is able to reform and reshape the government by removing these entrenched figures and subsequently hands control of the government back to the public by restoring the federal balance of power, he will delegitimize the rule of faceless bureaucrats and largely invalidate the left’s stranglehold on national politics.
Therefore, Trump cannot be allowed to win, let alone run for, the presidency.
Samuel Mangold-Lenett is a staff editor at The Federalist. His writing has been featured in the Daily Wire, Townhall, The American Spectator, and other outlets. He is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. Follow him on Twitter @Mangold_Lenett.
Let’s name names - exactly WHO is the deep state?
The Deep State is not a person or persons. It is more of a collective ideology held by a class of persons; unelected bureaucrats and their police-state enforcers. It is an apparatus of collective repression...for now. Sooner or later this apparatus will be harnessed by one very determined and focused person bent on using it for total personal power. Some say 0bama is that guy, but he’s not. He’s just the precursor. The actual guy is currently an unknown nobody, like some junior Corsican artillery officer, Austrian corporal, or former seminary student.
It’s obvious what this is about. The world has seen that the USA, a once-great country, is putatively governed by an incompetent, angry old man who carries out the orders of the true power behind the democrat party. It’s obvious that much of the American public has pulled its collective head out of its collective anal exit aperture and is seeing what is happening. Dems fear they will lose power in November!
The American democrat party, a criminal organization, will do anything to hold onto power. It will lie, cheat, steal and kill.
The raid is to stop Trump, who they fear and hate.
Yes, but SOMEONE ordered the raid on Trump's house. I know Federal Bureaucrats, and low level FBI agents wouldn't piss if their pants were on fire, unless they were specifically told to do so.
I understand the collective class and ideology argument, but even at the highest levels, these people's interests do not always overlap. Where the rubber meets the road, there are only a few people at the top of the pile. Who are they?
What has George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, Dick Cheney, Mitch McConnell, had to say about the raid on Trump’s home?
Probably some people who are just below Wray at the FBI, and acted with Wray's full knowledge and acquiescence. It was the same career people at DOJ who got the warrant, also with Garland's knowledge and tacit approval. The current power of the Deep State is as a collective entity, they are adept at hiding any individual personal accountability behind a Byzantine labyrinth of bureaucratic offices and procedures.
Oaky for starters, EVERY DAMN DEMOCRAT POLITICIAN from your local Dog Catcher ALL the way up to and including JOEY CRAPPY PANTS.
RINOS are a special scum all their own.
It also isn’t as hated by many Americans as it is by freepers.
The phrase ‘Deep State’ has been shouted, screamed, and so overused that unless someone is a dyed-in-the-wool Freeper whose bubble chamber excludes anyone and anything to the left of OAN it means nothing.
To people on this board, it is a toxic swamp sucking away all of our freedoms, to a *LOT* of regular Americans it’s a wolf that has been cried out about so much it’s a ‘meh’, much like ‘Communist Conspiracy’ by the late 1960’s: ‘yeah, yeah, we’ve heard about this for 20+ years blah blah. blah’....
“Wolf” has been cried too many times for “Deep State” to be anything more than a cliché to anyone who isn’t in love with Trump.
Who is the mole inside Trump’s camp that told the feds of the 15 boxes of documents?
That’s just a hunch, should he actually succeed to run for another term, and I hope he does I think they will do just about anything to do him in and there is a good chance that’s when all hell will break lose.
“Let’s name names - exactly WHO is the deep state?”
Unless you are in Uniform,
with rare exception,
if you work for Goobermint,
YOU are Deep State.
Your first loyaltry is to keeping your job, so you do what you are told. The People are not even at the table.
They are seriously scared.
Even scarier… the deafening silence from most of the conservative members of congress!?!
Even though he didn’t declassify stuff when he had the chance??
Unless I have completely missed the point, the existence of the 15 boxes of documents was well known and the subject of ongoing discussions regarding their provenance. The did not have to be a mole in the Trump organization to identify them. If the Trump organization is to be believed, these documents were available for examination and review by representatives of the various agencies after Trump left the White House. The fact that these documents were not secret and that they were available for review makes this raid all the more infuriating.
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