The best explanation yet for the Mar-a-Lago raid.

And a startling update, too.

It is well worth reading Lee Smith’s article in the Tablet in its entirety, but in a nutshell it appears the FBI’s purpose raiding Mar-a-Lago was, as rumored, the retrieval of documents proving it and the CIA’s extensive involvement in the so-called RussiaGate conspiracy to remove President Trump from office. Trump seems to have taken them with him when leaving office and if he chose to declassify them, which was certainly his privilege, he could do whatever he wants with them. Knowing Trump, he could do so bigly. We thus may imagine a panic-stricken FBI desperately wanting to get those documents out of his hands.

The corker of Smith’s story though is his highly believable proposition the documents the FBI and CIA, as well the entire Biden administration, are so eager to get hold of may not have been among those confiscated from Mar-a-Lago; that despite received opinion among the left Trump is too stupid to know his right from left, he obviously knew what those imbeciles were up to and took care to remove the incriminating documents elsewhere. Who knows, perhaps he even had multiple copies made to stash in various locales.

If Trump is indicted, as so many Bidenistas are clamoring for, and if he still has the documents, he could then release them which, as Smith states, could well bring down the FBI, the CIA and possibly the entire Biden administration.

We’ll quote directly Smith’s dramatic conclusion to his story.

What is preserving the stability of the United States at present is therefore something like a Mexican standoff. Does Trump actually have the documents? If so, will he put them before the public? Will Garland indict him, and risk finding out? Given the Biden administration’s tendency to instrumentalize the violence of its rhetoric and turn federal bureaucracies loose on its political opponents, it is likely that the standoff will not hold for long.

UPDATE: Breitbart reports among the items seized were 43 file boxes marked “classified.” They turned out to be empty. What might have been in them, we wonder.