People are justifiably angry about this. They’ve seen a pattern with the Department of Justice going all the way back to the Obama Administration.
The Obama Administration’s Justice Department used false evidence to obtain a FISA warrant on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016, which led to the bogus Russia investigation, the Mueller report, and other frivolous investigations that went nowhere. And now President Biden’s Justice Department just raided Donald Trump’s home.
This pattern of malpractice has created immense distrust in the Department of Justice. This institution desperately needs to regain the trust and credibility they’ve lost. But the raid of Mar-a-Lago does the exact opposite.
From what little we know about the raid, this is about apparently classified documents that were improperly handled. Perhaps that’s true. But if that is true, that is easy to resolve via subpoena. They could have subpoenaed President Trump to hand over documents - President Trump had already cooperated previously by handing over requested documents. This is not something that requires dozens of FBI agents to raid the home of a former president in a dramatic show of force that seems clearly politicized and designed to garner media attention.
People are right to be upset and we need answers.
These are unprecedented actions taken by the Justice Department, and they cannot stay silent about this investigation like they usually do during other ongoing investigations. Raiding a former president’s home under shady circumstances is not normal. Attorney General Merrick Garland must tell the American people what evidence of serious wrongdoing led his department to take such drastic action.
And if they are unable to do that, then, as Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy said, Merrick Garland better clear his calendar and preserve his documents because this is exactly the kind of oversight Republicans will conduct when we take back the House of Representatives in November.
You cannot weaponize America’s institutions for political gain. The left always claims our democracy is under attack, but they refuse to acknowledge that threatening the sanctity of our institutions and making people lose faith in them is actually a threat to our democracy. And that is exactly what Biden’s Justice Department has done.
We need to be able to trust our institutions and it’s hard for the American people to do that after what we’ve seen this week.
