Friday morning, there’s a protest in support of failed ex-president Donald Trump with hashtags #DisbandTheFBI over Monday night’s raid on Mar-A-Lago over super classified documents Trump took to Florida with him after he left office. Why Trump has these files, no one knows. Perhaps its to sell — at a very high price — to full funded enemies of this country.
There was a protest in Riverside that attracted about 50 people. And failed Republican Congressional candidate Nick Taurus is planning one in front of an In-N-Out Burger in South County. The one is OC in Santa Ana has a potential of attracting counter protesters happy Trump was raided and evidence of alleged criminal activity seized. Taurus’s protest simply confirms Trump Republicans are in a cult.
To be clear, a 2018 bill signed into law by Trump made it a felony to take classified documents from the National Archives.
The current head of the FBI was appointed by Trump.
The judge who issued the warrant was a Trump appointee.
Now two recent cases of mishandling of classified documents have emerged in recent years. President Clinton’s National Security Advisor Sandy Berger removed and destroyed classified documents and lied about it. He was indicted and convicted. He was put on probation, had his security clearance revoked and paid a heft fine with community service. Former CIA director General David Petraous gave classified documents to a biographer he had an affair with. He too was indicted and convicted with bigger fines and penalties. Both avoided prison time. The documents Trump took are so sensitive, the FBI says they cannot be described publicly.
And, unrelated to the raid, Trump took the Fifth Amendment multiple times in his deposition with the New York State AG. So much for the “only mobsters take the fifth.”
So back to the OC protest on Friday and the notion of “disbanding the FBI.” Weren’t these the same people criticizing those on the left who wanted to “defund the police?”