Well, the Biden administration’s Justice Department’s raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago home back in 2022 has been receiving a lot of attention again lately.
Now, certainly, for some people the controversy over that raid never went away. Many people have argued for years that it was a political hit job and was harassment of Trump by the Biden administration.
Recently, though, as you may recall, there have been accusations that the Biden administration was trying to set up a pretext to assassinate Trump in that Mar-A-Lago raid (you can find out more about that here). If even remotely true, given Trump’s popularity, that would only cause tensions between Trump supporters and the Biden administration to get worse.
An investigative journalist who isn’t a Biden supporter, though, disagrees with the assassination narrative. Joseph Mackinnon writes,
Antipathetic toward various federal outfits and having himself been on the receiving end of politicized lawfare, Blaze News investigative reporter Steve Baker said, “You know, under normal circumstances I would probably just say, ‘Leave it.’ You know what, under normal circumstances I wouldn’t even have addressed it.”
However, Baker indicated that a failure to address the misleading framing of an automatically filled FBI form and the excerpts spun without context could alternatively lead to rash decisions or even violence — to what Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck refers to the “Bubba Effect.”
“Anytime you force artificial or manufactured rage on your audience, then there’s always that element — it doesn’t matter if we’re talking about the left or the right — who will respond with violence,” said Baker. “The worst among us that commit these types of acts are the people that are most outraged by their own group’s rhetoric. … You outrage them unnecessarily so many times and then people take action and they do crazy things — whether it’s transgenders shooting up schools or it’s some right-wing militia nut who’s snapped.”
Baker said the erroneous suggestion in this case that the FBI “was ordered by the president to assassinate Trump is not just irresponsible — it’s dangerous.”
Baker makes the completely valid point that government forms (and all legal documentation, really) often come across as very harsh and, even, dangerous when read from a non-legalese point of view. And that kind of misinterpretation can cause people to misunderstand what is really being advocated and approved of in that paperwork.
Still, the Biden administration hasn’t been exactly “judicious” with its use of lawfare against Trump and Trump’s supporters, so, I understand how people could come to the conclusion that the Mar-A-Lago raid was actually an assassination plot even if it really wasn’t.
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