The Regime Wants Its Revenge

“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,” wrote Michael Anton in Compact Magazine on July 28. You don’t need to think. Every day .”

they will tell you.

Less than two weeks later, former President Donald Trump released a statement saying that Mar-a-Lago, the Florida club that functions as his primary residence, was “currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents. “

” Nothing like this has happened before to any President of the United States. Trump continued, “After working with all the appropriate Government agencies, it was not necessary nor appropriate to raid my house unannounced,” Trump stated.

” Such an attack could only be perpetrated in Third-World countries that are financially strapped. Unfortunately, America is now corrupt to a degree never seen before. Even broke into my safe!” Trump continued.

CBS News first reported that the raid had nothing to do with January 6, as some speculated, but rather a warrant to search the premises as part of an investigation into documents allegedly mishandled by the former president that may have included confidential information. Quickly thereafter, the New York Times and Politico were able to confirm the same: that the root cause of the raid was a supposed violation of the Presidential Records Act, which requires all presidential documents and records pertaining to his duties to be handed over to the National Archives.

Previously, the National Archives claimed that Trump delayed returning 15 boxes of requested records that the former president took with him from the White House and potentially included classified information. Trump cooperated only under the threat of greater action, according to National Archives. Trump reportedly returned the 15 boxes in January, which contained mementos, gifts, letters, and documents subject to the Presidential Records Act–including documents that the National Archives claimed contained “classified national security information.”

The National Archives brought the matter to the Department of Justice. In February, the DOJ asked for an investigation into Trump’s handling of White House records. After the National Archives stated that it had received documents from Trump and they were taped together and ripped apart by the National Archives.

After the National Archives received the 15 boxes of documents and other goods, federal prosecutors opened a grand jury investigation, anonymous sources told the New York Times. The National Archives was then subpoenaed by the federal prosecutors to review and obtain the documents.

Monday was not the first occasion federal agents visited Mar-a-Lago to search for documents. Agents reportedly visited Mar-a-Lago in the spring to obtain other documents, an unnamed source told the New York Times. One of the counterintelligence agents was at least part of the group who visited Mar-a-Lago during the spring.

But the FBI’s strategy for dealing with former President and his legal team took a dramatic turn on Monday. Rather than sending a small group of FBI agents to obtain the documents in question, the FBI rolled between 20 and 30 FBI agents into Mar-a-Lago to seize other boxes of documents outlined in a warrant that has yet to be made public and the details of which remain vague. No electronics were taken, however, according to CBS News.

Dr. John Eastman, the founding director of The Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, told The American Conservative via email that there is no lawful justification for this unprecedented raid on a former president’s residence. Eastman stated that he suspects there is an illegal fishing expedition. They can’t get just a warrant to search his files. That would be an illegal ‘general warrant’, which the Fourth Amendment specifically prohibits. They can now use the National Archives Act to pretext and rummage through his records and find what they need. “

” “Hopefully, the courts will soon stop this egregiously uneconstitutional conduct,” Eastman stated.

While violations of the Presidential Records Act don’t carry any severe penalties, there are other criminal statutes that could be in play. The United States prohibits anyone from “willfully injuring” or committing any act of depredation on any property. Criminal charges could be brought against public office holders who “willfully or unlawfully conceal, remove, mutilate, obliterate or destroy… any record or proceeding, book, process, paper, document or other thing filed or deposited.” Both the former and latter carry a maximum of one year imprisonment, while the former can be subject to a three-year sentence.

The second aforementioned statute also includes a provision that says those convicted of mutilating or destroying these records are, “disqualified from holding any office under the United States.” But in the 1969 case of Powell v. McCormack, the Supreme Court found that Article I’s Qualifications of Members Clause include the only reasons why a member of the House of Representatives that has been duly-elected may be prevented from holding office. While Powell v. McCormack dealt with members of Congress and not the president, the same logic probably applies to Article II, Section I, and likely renders the statutes provision of disqualification for public office unconstitutional.

Eastman thinks that Trump will be indicted by the current regime. But even if Trump were indicted, and then convicted of a felony (anything less than ‘insurrection), it would not disqualify him. The Constitution sets out the qualifications that can be added to the Office of Congress and Executive. As for ‘insurrection,’ section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars from office those who were engaged in an insurrection (namely, the civil war). It is an open question whether that even applies to the office of President, and it was also mostly eliminated by statute in the 1870s,” Eastman said.

” And, of course there wasn’t an ‘insurrection’,” Eastman said.

However, the Mar-a-Lago raid shows that Trump’s current government is determined to prevent a second term. It has a renewed sense for urgency and seriousness. It is clear that the danger cannot be underestimated. The thought of Trump being put behind bars was a catalyst for the left-wing activists and corporate media to start salivating like Pavlov’s dogs. This is their way of sending a strong message to the regime’s apparatchiks.

“This was the Empire Strikes Back,” Eastman stated to TAC. “Trump and his supporters interfered with the Hillary coronation plans in 2016, then had the temerity to think that the American people still controlled the direction of their government. Peasants in revolt must be subdued. “

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The regime, corporate media and liberal activist apparatus all know everything: The Russia hoax on January 6th, two impeachments and alleged violations under the Emoluments Clauses and banishment of social media haven’t worked. Our enemies have openly stated that they are all in the same boat, even if they didn’t know it before. This is their best chance to stop Trump before he announces his candidacy. They can’t afford another empty seat. If next time the feds make their way down to Mar-a-Lago it’s to take the former president out in handcuffs, or the regime finds some other way to bar Trump from taking office come Jan. 20, 2025, and they get away with it, imagine what they can get away with doing to you. With 87,000 more IRS agents, a FBI that goes after conservative parents and presidents, an intelligence apparatus that can spy on American citizens with ease, an allied corporate media that won’t hesitate to destroy your life, and Silicon Valley tech giants that can erase you from digital communication and finance platforms with the push of a button when all else fails, surely its nothing good.

I’ll end with some words from Anton:

“It’s safer, and generally more accurate, to assume that your adversaries mean what they say. If you doubt this, ask yourself: When was the last time they acted more moderately than they talk?”