This week, the FBI conducted a raid on former president Donald Trump’s home in Palm Beach, Florida. This unprecedented raid on a former president’s home, by a Justice Department now under the control of a president of the other party and less than two months before the first states begin early voting in this year’s Congressional elections, puts our nation on dangerous ground. The Russia Collusion Hoax and the slow-walking of the investigation into shady Biden family business deals involving China and Ukraine have already eroded Americans’ former rock-solid faith in the Justice Department and our nation’s core principle of equal justice before the law. This latest apparent abuse of power seems likely to compound that crisis.
I was hired by the people that I represent in the First District to provide oversight and transparency for the agencies of the federal government. This is government of the people, by the people, and for the people, and agencies work for the American people. It’s my job, and the job of my colleagues in Congress, to oversee these agencies. House Republicans on the Intelligence Committee have made requests repeatedly of agencies to bring forth documents that we are entitled to see on behalf of the people who hired us – the American people. It’s a slap in the face for the American people to be denied, and it’s why you see Americans’ erosion of trust in federal agencies. The problem is not with the FBI Agents who work in field offices across the globe – it’s with the FBI leadership on the 7th Floor of the FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. The leadership of the FBI is failing these field agents and failing the American people.
The Biden White House, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and FBI leadership have a lot of questions to answer for what looks like an egregious and dangerous politicization of our nation’s law enforcement apparatus. The new Congress will begin seeking answers to those questions in January.
