The FBI Raid at Mar-a-Lago Means Nothing at All.

How do I say this without pissing off all my liberal friends? Okay, I’ll just go ahead and say it.

As much as I think that Donald Trump was the worst President this country has ever had, as much as I think Orange Shithead is responsible for the deaths of millions of Americans through his gross incompetence, negligence and politicized response to Covid-19, as much as I wouldn’t mind it one bit if OS spent several years at the federal rest home in Butner, NC, I also believe that much ado is being made out of nothing re. the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid.

The FBI has a very good forensics lab. It also does some serious work helping understaffed and underpaid local police departments solve serious crimes. It also has some smart people working in its computer science division, including a couple of nerds who even know how to write some decent code.

But beyond that, the FBI is basically a warehouse holding an enormous collection of gossip which has been growing steadily since ‘the Queen,’ as Richard Nixon used to call J. Edgar Hoover, first got the agency recognized as a federal law-enforcement operation in 1935.

The biggest problem which has always faced the FBI is that it only has jurisdiction over crimes which occur in multiple states, because otherwise crime is a local or state-level affair…