The Indictment Isn’t Just About Trump, It’s About Wrongthink – The Federalist

Special Counsel Jack Smith officially indicted former President Donald Trump on Thursday for his retention of presidential documents following his departure from the White House.

The Attorney General Merrick Garland appointee was hard-pressed to cook up charges but somehow still confirmed Americans widely held suspicions that this is just a continuation of the deep states ploy to get Trump, which started with the Russia collusion hoax in 2016.

Todays act of open legal warfare by the highly politicized and partisan Department of Injustice, has taken things to a new level, and set a dangerous precedent, the Trump campaign said in a statement on Thursday night. By politically weaponizing the DOJ, the Biden administration and their henchmen in the Swamp are now conducting an all-out prosecution of the leader of the current administrations political opposition. This is un-American and wrong.

As Federalist Senior Legal Correspondent Margot Cleveland repeatedly noted prior to the charges, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) appeared to share no legitimateconcernsabout the documents Trump kept in his Mar-a-Lago home. If they did, NARA failed to afford Trump the same help it gave the Obama administration in securing documents that needed to be preserved.

Yet, the Department of Justice still used the EspionageAct, which does not explicitly prohibit the retention of classified documents, to sic the FBI on Trumps home in a dramatic raid last August.

President Joe Bidens DOJ says this is about preserving the rule of law. Yet, if Democrats truly valued the rule of law, illegal border crossers, Russia hoaxers, Jeffrey Epsteins clients, pro-abortion vandals, rioters, and the people who run corrupt government agencies like the Department of Justice, the FBI, the NSA, and the Manhattan DAs office would be the ones standing in court, not Trump.

If muddled questions of personal or campaign payments were truly criminal matters, campaign finance offenders like failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama would have faced some punishment. Instead, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, encouraged by corporate media and Democrats who fear a second Trump term, revived a case that several DOJ officials previously declined to pursue.

If rallying rioters on Twitter was really an indictable offense, Vice President Kamala Harris should have faced punishment for raising bail money for vandals and rioters during the 2020 summer of rage. Instead, Smith is expected to come up with a crime to punish Trump for his constitutionally protected speech on January 6, 2021.

If taking documents home from the White House is a crime, then the DOJ would have launched a criminal probe into Biden and his classified documents the moment they were discovered. Instead, the DOJ concocted a reason to launch an unprecedented raid on Trumps Mar-a-Lago home, followed by an unprecedented legal case.

To put it simply, the cases against Trump are rigged to look successful for the left. In reality, they are actually quite weak. But that doesnt mean they wont bite. Thats because the real reason for the indictment frenzy isnt about holding politicians accountable. Its not even just about Trump. Its about his voters and what they believe.

Under the auspices of taking out their number one enemy, the deep state has set its sights on dissenters like you and its not backing down.

Every time Democrats and their cronies hand down an impeachment or indictment of Trump, they are really indicting you. It sounds provocative, but its true.

Preventing Trump from taking the White House was always the lefts top priority. As evidenced by the Democrats prosecutions over the last year, this goal has not changed. Unfortunately, the lefts persecution wont stop with Trump.

How do we know? Because Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who just announced his Republican presidential campaign last month, faces coordinated smears from corporate media, attacks from the White House podium, and potentially even criminal charges from partisan officials.

DeSantis presidential run may have only been possible because of the populist brand Trump harnessed in 2016 but hes made it clear that hes not Trump. So why would get Trump Democrats and their allies in the corporate media complex feel so threatened by him that they have already begun to act?

Even if Democrats successfully oust Trump from the 2024 election, they know his platform will live on through MAGA Republican voters, many of whom will likely pivot to DeSantis. The left will, of course, find this unacceptable because they hate not just Trump and DeSantis, but everything they and their voters stand for.

The lefts short-term goal may be hampering the rights chances in the next presidential election but the long-term goal was always to outlaw the ideological platform that made this new GOP competitive in the first place.

The Biden administrations recent weaponization of the bureaucracy against conservative Christians is simply evidence of that.

Over just the last couple of years, the Biden administration launched attacks on concerned parents, raided a pastors home, refused to protect Republican-nominated Supreme Court justices from coordinated influence campaigns designed to undermine the Dobbs v. Jackson ruling, and attempted to punish Republican states for protecting children including the unborn.

The DOJ and the FBI are, in all senses of the word, a threat to the republic. Even before the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago a majority of Americans knew the U.S. has atwo-tiered system of justice. Now, after a year of more smears and one felony indictment, more than half of the nation says they want the lefts enforcement arm to face punishment for weaponizing its power against the American people to achieve political goals.

Under this regime, youre not allowed to believe babies in the womb deserve a chance at life. Youre not allowed to believe that the rainbow is about Gods promise, marriage is between a man and a woman, and June is reserved for the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Youre not allowed to believe that parents get the final say in what their child hears, sees, reads, and studies. Youre not allowed to believe that there are only two sexes and they arent interchangeable.

As of now, Trump is at the helm of the movement that rejects the lefts institutional takeover at its very core. Hes made a fine obstacle for the left for the last seven years, but its important to recognize that hes only an obstacle.

When Trump descended on a golden escalator in June 2015, Democrats and the corporate media werent interested in exploring why so many people liked and supported him. The contempt they felt for half of the nation after Trumps 2016 victory lives on today. Only this time, they will do everything it takes to hamper conservative voters effectiveness.

Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordanboydtx.

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