Did Someone Big Flip On Donald Trump?
The raid on Trump’s house seems like a late-stage thing to do in a secretive criminal investigation into the former president.
The FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago is the tip of the investigative iceberg. Was there a prior subpoena that he ignored? Was Trump lying about some of the documents during the feds’ previous, less invasive visits to Mar-a-Lago?
Was the catalyst for the raid related to information gleaned from the other criminal investigations into Trump’s conduct before and during the January 6th riot? Or perhaps the National Archives was alarmed at the sensitivity of the classified materials missing, and the FBI has found evidence of Trump passing on certain documents to unknown third parties? Trump did just host a Saudi golf tournament at his New Jersey course.
DOJ officials would not likely provide Trump with a warrant explaining their investigations alongside a list of the material evidence they’re looking for and taking possession of if they weren’t confident that this epic tip-off would not jeopardize the investigation or future prosecution. And perhaps the FBI found other evidence of crimes at Mar-a-Lago to help their other investigations.
The fun part now is guessing about the rest of the investigative iceberg beneath the surface of public knowledge. If Republican members of Congress, Fox News hosts, and conservative media pundits are going wild speculating with no evidence that the FBI fabricated evidence to get the warrant, planted criminal materials at Mar-a-Lago, or are acting on purely political interests to search Trump’s house, we can have some fun too!
Did someone flip on Trump?
Mark Meadows has been awfully quiet, and his top aide Cassidy Hutchinson recently testified to the January 6th Committee and said a lot of damning things about a lot of people under oath that have been corroborated by the Committee’s other witnesses. Whereas Trump never kept records, everyone from members of Congress to Fox News hosts was constantly texting and emailing Meadows long paper trails of complicity about the election fraud, the January 6th riot, and, most amusingly, requests for pardons that suggest self-awareness of criminality. If anyone has excessive exposure to Trump’s alleged criminal conspiracies, it’s Mark Meadows. And Trump’s lawyers have recently told Trump to cease all contact with him. How hilarious.
Speaking of paper trails related to January 6th, a plethora of new investigations are currently looking into suspiciously missing texts and emails around January 6th from the Secret Service, Department of Defense and Army, and many Trump Administration officials. Perhaps some of them are coming clean about what the conveniently missing messages were about.
Or perhaps Rudy Giuliani flipped? No one was a more willing co-conspirator of the election fraud attempts than Rudy, and he has a host of his own legal problems, including, but not limited to, arguably acting as a foreign agent and possible election finance crimes. That could be pretty tempting leverage to convince Giuliani to rat out Trump and shave off a few years from a prison sentence.
Let us also remember that for a year and a half the January 6th Committee’s diligent work has implicated dozens of people involved in Trump’s alleged crimes, and J6 Vice-Chair Liz Cheney claimed not long ago that “the dam has begun to break.” With so much damning testimony from so many people around and inside Trump’s orbit, other new witnesses have no doubt spent months considering the benefits of coming forward sooner rather than later.
Meanwhile, the DOJ has ramped up the number of its subpoenas considerably in the last few weeks, including most interestingly Trump’s White House Counsel Pat Cipollone. He was able to claim executive privilege in the J6 Committee’s Congressional hearings, but that privilege fades away when the DOJ is conducting a grand jury hearing within the executive branch.
So it would not be surprising if for the last few weeks or months a great number of people meeting with and talking to Donald Trump have been wearing wires and communicating on DOJ-monitored phones to cooperate on gathering further evidence against Trump.
Which means that with everything we’ve seen, it’s preposterous, embarrassing, and perhaps suggestive of legal liability that any Republicans are continuing to defend Trump and malign everyone and everybody except the Team Trump criminals who appear to finally be caught in the machinery of justice.
Throughout all of the investigations into Trump’s conduct, it’s imperative we remember that EVERYONE who testified under oath said Trump and his allies were guilty of the various allegations against them, and EVERYONE who said Trump was innocent refused to say so under oath. And now, at long last, the FBI has raided Trump’s home and confiscated a Republican Congressman’s personal phone. This is not the end.
To continue with the iceberg metaphor, we have no idea what might come next. All the Republican members of Congress who asked for pardons getting indicted all of a sudden? Trump being arrested trying to get on a plane to flee to Russia or Saudi Arabia? Mark Meadows entering the witness protection program?
We don’t know, and for Republicans to continue betting their integrity and legacies on Trump’s innocence as he gets ratcheted deeper into the mechanical maw of justice is to disgrace themselves forever in American history.
If you cheered when you found out about the Mar-a-Lago news, get yourself a bottle of champaign ready to celebrate because the likelihood of karma catching up to Trump with an indictment at long last is so close I’m beginning to taste it.
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