More Questions than Real Answers—But We Should Want to Know

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It would seem to me, and I think to most reasonable minded Americans, that the recent raid on former president Trump's Mar-A-Lago home is deeply entrenched in more than just an investigation into wrongdoing. It's just more of the same that we have dealt with for going on 7 years that started before Trump even took office. Someone is afraid. Certainly the establishment was very afraid, and I think that has a lot to do with everything we dealt with then and are dealing with now. Deep rooted fear. The thing is, Trump may well run for president again. It seems clear, even, that that's his intent. And despite all that has happened, and all of the negative press, he may actually even be able to win his second term after all. The Mar-A-Lago thing, when you think about it, is just another effort to try to quash any chance he may have—because the January 6th hearings turned out to be of little interest to anyone, and uncovered nothing new or enlightening. There were no smoking guns, and nothing has really been brought to light that we did not already know. All it has served to do is to try to quiet more people and create an image of "unscrupolous people" around Donald Trump. Polls show that the American people largely are not buying any of it. Neither is any of this having any impact on lessening the reality that the Biden administration is largely a failed one. Nor is it eroding support for Trump, among his base nor among the republican party itself. In fact, support for Trump is rising. Not falling. I actually think this is a good thing, and the reason I feel that way is because it gives me faith that the American people, whom I started to think were asleep at the wheel, are actually still quite engaged in the political scene and have a deep interest in knowing what is going on within our government. Was the election in 2020 stolen? No one knows. No one can make that claim with absoluteness. But there are, of course, many questions about that—and they are not questions without a basis for asking them. Whether or not the election was actually stolen is not the issue. The issue is if the American people are not willing to at least ask the question considering all of the events prior to 2020 and the ones that came after. When you think about it, the question isn't even necessarily a political one. It isn't one we ask or don't ask depending upon which party happens to be in charge and whether or not that party aligns with our own political positions. It's about America. It is about the integrity of our electoral process. It is a question of whether or not the people are making the decisions about who runs the country or if the establishment is dictating that decision for us. There was a time in this country when we held our leaders accountable, that politics were not a factor. We made decisions based on what were in the best interest of the country as a whole. Did Trump do anything wrong? I don't think anyone knows. A lot of people certainly suspect it. I think that the vast majority of people who are on that side of the fence, though, have those suspicions for the wrong reasons. Do we really want to know the truth or do we just want to see blood for the sake of seeing the blood of someone we happen to dislike? Because the truth matters. No matter whether it fits our desired outcome or narrative. It matters. I go back to the question of understanding that Trump received 10 million more votes in 2020 than he did in 2016 and Biden received the most votes ever in the history of U.S. presidential elections. Add in that prior to all of the mail in ballots being counted, Trump was actually winning. In the final hour it was as though someone had flipped a switch and turned the tables completely around. Maybe it was real. Maybe there was nothing not above board about that. But I think we still should be compelled to ask the question as hard as we were lead to ask the question about the Russians and the 2016 election. We should not so easily dismiss the 2020 claim while we were fully interested in the question about 2016. At the same time we should question the tenacity at which Trump was pursued throughout his term and the tenacity of how he is being pursued now. What is the purpose? What is the intent? And why are so many other important questions, at the same time, being dismissed or ignored on the other side? Is there something more going on? Is there something here that is very important for someone to want to hide? Is there a reason to cause a major distraction from all of these important questions? And what if Trump does run again? What if he wins? What do we learn then? Is the possibility of what we may learn if he is president again what is being feared? Is that the reason for the strong push to keep him out? To destroy him? Again, no one knows. But we should still be asking the questions and we should be interested in knowing the truth. Not the one we've made up our minds about. But the real truth. Because again, it matters. It really does. Love him or hate him, what matters more than anything is the country. America first was not just some slogan. It's a reality, and it is important far beyond our political motivations or interests. Parties are separate from anything else that matters. If someone has done something wrong that harms the country, by all means let's get to the bottom of that. But let's not accuse wrongdoing just because we dislike someone or because that person does not sit in the party we prefer to lead the country. What is the purpose of the Mar-A-Lago raid? No one knows yet. But the republican party, and frankly the American people, are right to demand answers from the FBI immediately. At the end of the day the bottom line is that we need to be interested in reality over what we desire. Truth over fiction. Accountability for just cause, and not for any other reason. I think if we keep an unbiased and open mind then we can have an open and honest debate about what is really happening—and moreover, what really happened. And when the truth is revealed, we can better process it and accept it for what it is. It is the American thing to do.