Many Americans are troubled over how Joe Biden appears to be weaponizing federal agencies against his top political opponent.
They’re demanding answers.
But Fox News viewers were floored when a top host had this one-word response to the FBI raiding Donald Trump’s private residence.
Former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker recently appeared on Fox and Friends to discuss the FBI’s raid on Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago.
Co-host Brian Kilmeade was floored when Whitaker told him the FBI staged the raid on Donald Trump’s home as a way to get attention and send a message.
According to a report in Newsweek, Deep State insiders told them that the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago when Donald Trump was away in New York to try to avoid national attention.
“How clueless are they to think they can slide up with guards, take over a compound for nine hours with the FBI and countless trucks along with aerial, I think, with airplanes, and nothing is going to create a firestorm?” Kilmeade asked Whitaker. “How much of an emergency can it be if they hold onto the warrant for a couple of days and don’t do anything?”
Whitaker agreed with Kilmeade that it would be impossible for the FBI to raid Trump’s house without generating attention and setting off a firestorm.
However, Whitaker said that is exactly what the FBI wanted.
“This has caused a complete firestorm. They should have anticipated. And it does demonstrate how insulted on the Fifth Floor of the Department of Justice. [Attorney General] Merrick Garland said one thing that I disagree with. And he said that this, obviously DOJ policy, they need to use the least intrusive means [in] obtaining this evidence. In this case, they went in with dozens of agents to execute a search warrant. And there had to be a way to not cause a firestorm. They didn’t want to do it, they wanted this attention. And they wanted to demonstrate,” Whitaker responded.
“Really,” Kilmeade responded.
“They wanted this attention? They wanted this attention, you think?” Kilmeade asked.
Whitaker responded to Kilmeade’s question in the affirmative.
He said the FBI wanted the attention as a way to send a message of intimidation to Trump and his supporters.
“They took this step and they crossed a line that they intentionally did and they knew that it was going to cause this firestorm and now they have it,” Whitaker concluded. “And it seems to me they didn’t get what they wanted when they got a search warrant, so they’re trying to walk it back. It’s going to be very interesting in the coming days what we learn.”
Political Animal News will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.
