A Wall Street Journal columnist says that federal law enforcement staff shouldn't be allowed to enter the home of a former president for any reason. jonathanchait says this would be 'a radical departure from the Anglo American legal tradition'
The Wall Street Journal’s news reporters have revealed that the FBI’s operation at Donald Trump’s home occurred after a source inside Mar-a-Lago told the agency that the former president had lied to the bureau and was keeping classified documents. This is a straightforward account. But if the Journal’s readers are seeking a more entertainingly deranged account, they can turn to a column on the paper’s rabidly partisan editorial page by the venerable Daniel Henninger.
The FBI, according to Henninger, would only have entered Trump’s home to seize classified documents if this was the most important issue in the world. You can hate Donald Trump until your eyes pop out, but let us be clear: He was elected the 45th president of the U.S. He served four years in office. No former president who was disliked by many—not Clinton, Reagan nor FDR—had his home invaded by a squad of FBI agents. This should never happen in the U.S. End of discussion.
Henninger’s idea to make every former president’s home a free-crime zone would be a radical departure from the Anglo American legal tradition. In his defense, columnists often suggest provocative ideas to stimulate discussion. But rather than explore any of these questions, Henninger simply asserts, “End of discussion,” as if his plan’s merits were so obvious they require no explanation.
Multiple members of the sitting president’s own party in the past week—such as Joe Manchin and Jerry Nadler—have openly abandoned Joe Biden for an election that is two years off. Days later, the previous president comes under explicit attack from the FBI. Incredibly, we are doing this to ourselves. Correction: They are doing it to us. Who are “they”? They, as of Monday, are who much of the political right says they are—the Swamp, the Deep State, the Regime, the Establishment.
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