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The FBI Raided Trump Because He’s A Threat To The Deep State
The Federalist ^ | AUGUST 09, 2022 | BY: SAMUEL MANGOLD-LENETT

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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
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To: Jan_Sobieski

I am not hearing much from the GOPe RINO class.


21 posted on 08/09/2022 9:07:21 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( )
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To: T. Rustin Noone

Yeah, but they had inside info about a new safe that was just installed, which is why they brought a safe cracker


22 posted on 08/09/2022 9:08:37 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: Red Badger

bkmk


23 posted on 08/09/2022 9:29:04 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: henkster

It is more of a collective ideology held by a class of persons unelected bureaucrats.

True however they do obey what the democrat party calls for they are the lower IQ lot to decide what to do on their own.


24 posted on 08/09/2022 9:43:13 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: Red Badger

25 posted on 08/09/2022 9:54:20 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: PGR88

Time for a Convention of States to specifically repeal the 17th Amendment and eliminate the Senior Executive Service.


26 posted on 08/09/2022 10:45:35 AM PDT by Article10 (Roger That)
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To: PGR88

I have a friend who is friends with and FBI field agent, says he is a great guy. I told my friend, you better say nothing political around him ever about anything. My friend said this agent would disobey an illegal order. I said don’t bet your life and freedom on it, keep your mouth shut when you are around him, the FBI is not anyone’s friend. I couldn’t have imagined uttering those words 35 years ago.


27 posted on 08/09/2022 12:02:35 PM PDT by sarge83
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keep your mouth shut when you are around him, the FBI is not anyone’s friend. I couldn’t have imagined uttering those words 35 years ago.

NO ONE should be friends with any FBI agent. They are to be avoided. In Germany, no one liked or trusted the STASI, and in China, no one likes or trusts Chinese Public Security

28 posted on 08/09/2022 12:05:48 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

The way I see the so called “Deep State” is an assortment of elected and un-elected unethical corrupt individuals who feel they can milk the government, that’s you and me for all its worth. And anyone who comes along and threatens this system or ideology has to be eliminated and Trump just happens to be that person. I hope he will succeed and wish him lots of luck, but would not hold my breath.


29 posted on 08/09/2022 1:29:46 PM PDT by saintgermaine (Saintgermain the time traveler)
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