The Morning Briefing: Merrick Garland's Mar-a-Lago Raid May Have Clinched Senate for the GOP

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Happy Tuesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Jeffrey’s predilection for chasing everything down with root beer was burdensome to his friends after every late-night Taco Bell bender.

Gosh, it seems like just yesterday that I was writing here about President LOLEightyonemillion’s puppet masters weaponizing and unleashing their rogue federal agencies on their political opponents.

Probably because I was.

For the last couple of years, I’ve been saying that I’m wary of putting even outlandish things into the universe because they might come true. Well, dear readers, here we are, sooner than even I expected.

I was on the phone when the news about the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago hit (Matt has the particulars here) and it wasn’t until I quintuple-checked it that I believed it was true.

The outrage from the right was immediate, which Matt also covered. Here’s perhaps the most intriguing bit from that post:

Most importantly, however, House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy gave a stern warning to Attorney General Merrick Garland.

“I’ve seen enough,” he said in a statement. “The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization. When Republicans take back the House, we will conduct immediate oversight of this department, follow the facts, and leave no stone unturned.”

He added, “Attorney General Garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar.”

It would be a huge miracle if this egregious overstep by the Biden administration gave McCarthy the spine we’ve all been waiting for. While seeing the flurry of reaction on social media, I quickly began thinking of what other consequences the Democrats’ extremism might have:

Anyone who reads me knows that I haven't been sold on the GOP's chances for taking back the Senate. I think this Mar-a-Lago raid was an in-kind contribution to every Republican on the ballot.

— SFK (@stephenkruiser) August 9, 2022

That wasn’t a flippant remark on my part. If there were any undecided voters floating around somewhere in America I can’t imagine that the fence is very comfortable right now. It’s also probably a safe bet that Drooling Joe’s Stasi move guarantees that apathy won’t be a problem for the Republicans.

Almost since the moment that Joe Biden occupied the Oval Office, I’ve been saying that the Democrats were going to screw it up by overreaching, which they’ve been doing. Last night’s raid was obviously their biggest overreach yet, and it came after the Democrats’ and Biden’s most (only?) successful weekend in office.

All they had to do was take the win, but that’s not how Team Overreach works. The White House insists that they knew nothing about the raid, which is the biggest lie from a Democratic administration since Bubba’s “I did not have sexual relations with that woman,” line.

Merrick Garland may very well still be working out his Mitch McConnell daddy issues but he’s also the puppet president’s puppet. The prime directive of this Democratic hive mind is to keep Donald Trump off of the ballot in 2024 because they know that he will destroy them.

That obsession might have just handed control of the Senate to the Republicans.

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The mailbag is empty today because you all seemed to have taken the weekend off or something. DO YOU HAVE LIVES?!?!?

As I’ve said, this is a work in progress. If I get a few good ones today we’ll do it tomorrow: [email protected].

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