Some of these anomalies we would like to bring to attention are that AG Merrick Garland after confirming several sources is Jewish (Russian eastern European descendent). Is this "antisemitic" to do a search on Garland and note this fact? Interesting, does Garland hold any long standing family personal grudges towards Russia? The federal judge Bruce Reinhart (here's a good one: "he seems to follow the Christian religion") who signed off on the search warrant now referred to as "the FBI executes search warrant" and not a raid, is also Jewish with connections to Jeffrey Epstein. What did Garland do? Telephone Reinhart in Florida and direct him to sign off on the warrant? Why is it that there are so many people involved in this who are Jewish? It's a simple question? Is this an "antisemitic" question?
News update for 12 August 2022:
ABC guest suggests Americans angry over Trump raid are 'Neo-Nazis' because Merrick Garland is Jewish
There are events transpiring here that go far beyond "bringing back America" and "make America great again" represented by President Trump and conservative America. These powerful Jewish hierarchies that control US politics, institutions like the DoJ (and the FBI) and especially the Democratic Party are fearful of Donald Trump becoming president in 2024. At least this is what we have all been led to think. They are obviously doing everything they can to sabotage and remove Donald Trump even threats of assassination. What are they so terrified of? President Trump now also suspects the FBI might have planted evidence at his Mar-a-Lago resort on their "raid." Another nagging question. Is this all political theater? A staged event to get Trump in office? Finally, is this what American Jews are afraid of if Donald Trump becomes president in 2024? Is this why Donald Trump is such a political enigma no one can figure out?
Welcome to the Third World
The FBI really better have something "pulverizing" on Trump, because otherwise we've just witnessed one of the dumbest moves in the history of politics
By Matt Taibbi | August 10, 2022
Secret service outside Mar-a-Lago Monday
[The Justice Department] must immediately explain the reason for its raid and it must be more than a search for inconsequential archives, or it will be viewed as a political tactic and undermine any future credible investigation and legitimacy of January 6 investigations.
— Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
Headline from Politics Insider this morning:
Feds likely obtained 'pulverizing' amount of evidence ahead of searching Trump's Mar-a-Lago home, legal experts say.Pulverizing! Hold that thought.
We've reached the stage of American history where everything we see on the news must first be understood as political theater. In other words, the messaging layer of news now almost always dominates the factual narrative, with the latter often reported so unreliably as to be meaningless anyway. Yesterday's sensational tale of the FBI raiding the Mar-a-Lago home of former president Donald Trump is no different.
As of now, it's impossible to say if Trump's alleged offense was great, small, or in between. But this for sure is a huge story, and its hugeness extends in multiple directions, including the extraordinary political risk inherent in the decision to execute the raid. If it backfires, if underlying this action there isn't a very substantial there there, the Biden administration just took the world's most reputable police force and turned it into the American version of the Tonton Macoute [apparently, a Haitian mythological phrase meaning "bogey man"] on national television. We may be looking at simultaneously the dumbest and most inadvertently destructive political gambit in the recent history of this country.
The top story today in the New York Times, bylined by its top White House reporter, speculates this is about "delayed returning" of "15 boxes of material requested by officials with the National Archives." If that's true, and it's not tied to January 6th or some other far more serious offense, then the Justice Department just committed institutional suicide and moved the country many steps closer to once far-out eventualities like national revolt or martial law. This is true no matter what you think of Trump. Despite the early reports of "cheers" in the West Wing, the mood in center-left media has already drifted markedly from the overnight celebration. The Times story today added a line missing from most early reports: "The search, however, does not mean prosecutors have determined that Mr. Trump committed a crime." There are whispers throughout the business that editors are striking down certain jubilant language, and we can even see this playing out on cable, where the most craven of the networks’ on-air ex-spooks are crab-crawling backward from last night's buzz-words:
MSNBC'S Frank Figliuzzi says 'FBI agents do not like the term "raid"'. Moments later, MSNBC updates their lower third to "executes search warrant" pic.twitter.com/KHCXTzJf6p
— Kayvon Afshari (@KayvonAfshari) August 9, 2022
The hugeness of the story has become part of its explanation. An action so extreme, we're told by expert after expert, could only be based upon “pulverizing” evidence.
Throughout the Trump years we've seen a numbing pattern of rhetorical slippage in coverage of investigations. The aforementioned Politics Insider story is no different. "Likely" evidence in the headline becomes more profound in the text. An amazing five bylined writers explain:
Regardless of the raid's focus legal experts quickly reached a consensus about it: A pile of evidence must have backed up the warrant authorizing the search.They then quoted a "former top official in the Justice Department's National Security Division" — you'll quickly lose track if you try to count the named and unnamed intel spooks appearing in coverage today — who said, "There's every reason to think that there's a plus factor in the quantum and quantity of evidence that the government already had to support probable cause in this case."
Please go to Matt Taibbi's substack to continue reading.
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