Truly "Unpresidented"?

by Dar ul Harb, Esq.

Has Washington Post reporter emeritus Carl Bernstein come along yet to pronounce the raid on Mar-A-Lago "worse than Watergate"? I doubt he will.

But it occurred to me this morning with Biden White House officials claiming they had no knowledge of the raid of what's ostensibly the headquarters of the Republican Party's leader, that this parallels the Nixon Administration's official story on the work of their leak "plumbers" team which burgled and searched the Democrat Party’s headquarters in D.C.’s Watergate Hotel all those years ago. Overenthusiastic underlings doing what they figured the boss wanted done.

(A stormy view of the White House, taken a few years back when the target of this week’s FBI raid was in residence.)

However, in the case of the "plumbers," they were an unofficial group of White House staff, and not the actual law enforcement powers of the administration.

The Biden Administration's current "hangout" may need to be further "modified" and "limited" as we see what's actually in the search warrant application (presumably later this month). A motion filed by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch to unseal the Mar-A-Lago search warrant is currently pending before the court in Florida, and the United States has been given a deadline of next Monday, August 15th to file their response.

But given these parallels, I think it's fair to ask, as famed Tennessee Republican Senator Howard Baker, Jr. asked of the Nixon White House in 1973, "What did the President know, and when did he know it?"

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