Watch for FBI’s Trump Raid To Backfire on Democrats

Surely the vast majority of people believe this to be an over the edge, off the cliff usurpation of power by the Merrick Garland justice department.

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President Trump departs Trump Tower at New York August 10, 2022. AP/Julia Nikhinson

More questions are arising regarding the FBI’s outrageous and unprecedented raid on President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. As of this reporting, the justice department has failed to explain why the FBI raid was absolutely necessary.

Why weren’t these alleged document disputes settled out of court and out of raid? Why not continue the cooperation between Mr. Trump and the national archives that had yielded good results? Why the raid now? Why the raid at all? Why risk the political firestorm?

Ironically, given the Democratic Party strategy of doing everything possible to prevent Mr. Trump from running again for president, doesn’t this outrageous FBI raid virtually guarantee his candidacy?

Anyhow, surely the vast majority of people believe this to be an over the edge, off the cliff usurpation of power by the Merrick Garland justice department, and this will backfire on the Biden Democrats big time. I may be wrong here, but I don’t think so. Time will tell.

A former federal prosecutor, Andrew McCarthy, believes that the Trump raid is not about classified documents or the national archives, but is really about Biden administration attempts to tie Mr. Trump to the January 6 Capitol riot, with some sort of conspiracy or sedition charge that would disqualify him from running again.

There are rumors that Attorney General Garland has already empaneled a grand jury in order to indict Mr. Trump. Surely there were very few classified national security documents in Melania Trump’s wardrobe.

Mr. Trump himself has worried out loud that the FBI would plant evidence in the course of the search. There’s no evidence of that yet, but then again we don’t have any evidence of anything the FBI did, or why they did it. Just saying.

Apart from all these hypothetical thoughts, I want to repeat what I said last night: In recent weeks, Mr. Trump has made two significant and highly substantive policy speeches, creating a predicate agenda for the Republican Party’s victory in the November elections: tough on crime, backing cops, ending critical race theory in the schools, closing the border, conquering inflation, restoring energy independence, a strong military, and a truly “America first” foreign policy.

The far-left Biden Democrats have overturned Trump economic policies that gave Americans the most prosperous economy in many generations. Mr. Trump is pledging to restore tax cuts, deregulation, and the fossil fuel industry, and to again reward success and free the economy.

Democrats don’t like this, because it hits home, slamming their big-government socialist agenda, which has failed so badly. I know inflation came in cooler in today’s July report, but the fact is high inflation is going to be a problem for a long time. I know the July jobs report last Friday beat expectations, but the reality is the GDP decline in the first half of this year, alongside an 8-10 percent inflation rate. Real wages continue to fall.

I’m glad gas prices have eased back to $4 a gallon, but they were barely $2 when Mr. Trump left office, while the economy was growing at nearly 6 percent and the inflation was under 2 percent. That is why Mr. Trump’s substantive policy agenda attack on the radical Democrats is hitting home. The GOP leaders in the House and Senate should be doing much more of this.

In other words, Mr. Trump was trying to add some policy leadership to the cavalry. And he is spot on.

From Mr. Kudlow’s broadcast on Fox Business News.


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