Garland and Trump

 

Like many others I do not know yet what to make of Garland’s raid on Trump’s house. I think that Trump’s behavior from December 14^th through January 6^th after the election was criminal, and that it would be good for the country if Garland found that it was also illegal. I also think Trump is arrogant, obtuse, and irresponsible enough to make it plausible that he might have wandered off with some secret information about nuclear weapons – ours or theirs.

 
I do hope Garland’s search was justified. I hope it was not a political maneuver, and that when the facts come out, Trump’s defenders will have to shut up. The Democrats are likely to lose the presidency in 2024 to any likely Republican candidate except Trump. If the raid was a ploy to enrage Trump and goad him into running, well we know how well the Todd Akin trick of promoting Trump in the primaries on the premise that he surely would lose to even Hillary Clinton worked in 2016. It is too dangerous to incentivize Trump to run because of seeing him as a likely loser. He might win, and then where would we be?