<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> Aaron Maté from Aaron Mate <mate@substack.com><br><b>Date:</b> August 21, 2022 at 10:55:41 AM CDT<br><b>To:</b> galliher@illinois.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> <b>In FBI vs. Trump, the people lose</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> Aaron Maté from Aaron Mate <reply+15houl&68v1&&3f2c72e0d37876cb7cd5fd365a5975aa33c6d2fceeb386292c02155437581ea9@mg1.substack.com><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><title>In FBI vs. Trump, the people lose</title><style>.typography .markup iframe.spotify-wrap, .typography.editor .markup iframe.spotify-wrap, .typography .markup a.spotify-wrap, .typography.editor .markup a.spotify-wrap { width: auto !important; }
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Ron DeSantis. Trump’s ensuing fundraising campaign has done even better, </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://substack.com/redirect/95b0d072-ab9f-410d-ad6d-dfc742081552?r=68v1__;!!DZ3fjg!9Yf8YN_1aDk5jq1imSJTuvVhgVZiUYHnpDG1jQMjS2V92EHd1UZ9CotVxHVhVRAsGUGd-htDgVdc0P1M$" rel="" style="color: #1a1a1a; text-decoration: underline;">quickly topping $1 million on at least two days</a><span>, a jump of at least 700%. </span></p><p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 1em 0;">Over the long run, it is difficult to form a conclusive judgment on Trump’s potential culpability in the absence of any confirmed detail about both the contents of the documents that Trump allegedly mishandled, and the evidence to support the Justice Department’s suspicions. But if the last six years of routine Trump standoffs with the national security state are any guide, the walls are nowhere closer to closing in.</p><p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 1em 0;">Whatever your views on Trump, it is undeniable that the permanent military-intelligence bureaucracy in Washington does not see him as one of their own, and has gone to extraordinary lengths to target him when it sees fit. It also undeniable that the national security state’s spats with Trump have distracted the public from vital issues that impact working people’s lives and the future of the planet. This includes, I have long argued, Trump’s most harmful policies as president, which were routinely overshadowed and even exacerbated by his standoffs with the “deep state.” </p><p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 1em 0;">Accordingly, it is reasonable to expect that this latest “scandal” over the potential mishandling of classified documents will continue the trend that has defined the Trump era: an intra-elite, symbiotic feud that simultaneous boosts Trump among his base, and the national security state among his foes.</p><p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 1em 0;"><span>Pundits and politicians are resoundingly confident that </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://substack.com/redirect/77cc269c-d729-4fa1-9096-c4b9e771b9f0?r=68v1__;!!DZ3fjg!9Yf8YN_1aDk5jq1imSJTuvVhgVZiUYHnpDG1jQMjS2V92EHd1UZ9CotVxHVhVRAsGUGd-htDgf_nejWO$" rel="" style="color: #1a1a1a; text-decoration: underline;">the FBI must have the goods </a><span>on Trump to have taken the unprecedented step of searching the former president’s home. This argument can only be made by ignoring that the FBI and other intelligence agencies took far more unprecedented and consequential actions against Trump when he was president, on grounds that were not only baseless, but fraudulent.</span></p><p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 1em 0;">The FBI investigated Trump as a suspected Russian conspirator and asset – and not just once, but twice: first as a presidential candidate, and then months after he took office. To undertake this, they relied on the Hillary Clinton-funded Steele dossier’s conspiracy theories as source material; repeatedly lied to a FISA court; and, despite the full knowledge that they had come up empty, prolonged their investigation with media leaks and court filings that falsely suggested that a collusion “smoking gun” was within reach.</p><p style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 1em 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://substack.com/redirect/39e0a216-569c-4baa-98e5-c7e7d5424285?r=68v1__;!!DZ3fjg!9Yf8YN_1aDk5jq1imSJTuvVhgVZiUYHnpDG1jQMjS2V92EHd1UZ9CotVxHVhVRAsGUGd-htDgSp94cAN$" rel="" style="color: #1a1a1a; text-decoration: underline;">Russiagate apologists</a><span> like to </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://substack.com/redirect/62cfea0d-0a8f-417f-a29c-7a5c56bb281f?r=68v1__;!!DZ3fjg!9Yf8YN_1aDk5jq1imSJTuvVhgVZiUYHnpDG1jQMjS2V92EHd1UZ9CotVxHVhVRAsGUGd-htDgSzX_aKD$" rel="" style="color: #1a1a1a; text-decoration: underline;">argue that the FBI’s use of the Steele dossier</a><span> was </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://substack.com/redirect/313d6408-fa8d-4942-a3f9-86ed9e115754?r=68v1__;!!DZ3fjg!9Yf8YN_1aDk5jq1imSJTuvVhgVZiUYHnpDG1jQMjS2V92EHd1UZ9CotVxHVhVRAsGUGd-htDgZujYgZP$" rel="" style="color: #1a1a1a; text-decoration: underline;">an aberration that</a><span> </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://substack.com/redirect/0a79ee9a-8e6e-4221-8aa3-e96233e14557?r=68v1__;!!DZ3fjg!9Yf8YN_1aDk5jq1imSJTuvVhgVZiUYHnpDG1jQMjS2V92EHd1UZ9CotVxHVhVRAsGUGd-htDgc1Chl2P$" rel="" style="color: #1a1a1a; text-decoration: underline;">does not taint</a><span> the </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://substack.com/redirect/21d2c2a1-8a47-4115-ad3d-31ba9b56aa67?r=68v1__;!!DZ3fjg!9Yf8YN_1aDk5jq1imSJTuvVhgVZiUYHnpDG1jQMjS2V92EHd1UZ9CotVxHVhVRAsGUGd-htDgXPFjrjQ$" rel="" style="color: #1a1a1a; text-decoration: underline;">whole enterprise</a><span>. In fact, there are ample grounds to believe that Steele’s fabrications played an even greater role than the FBI has acknowledged – including, </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://substack.com/redirect/73bfd2f8-9bfc-4228-b7bc-269ec4841d53?r=68v1__;!!DZ3fjg!9Yf8YN_1aDk5jq1imSJTuvVhgVZiUYHnpDG1jQMjS2V92EHd1UZ9CotVxHVhVRAsGUGd-htDgZmkiLRH$" rel="" style="color: #1a1a1a; text-decoration: underline;">as I have detailed</a><span>, possibly triggering the Russia investigation to begin with. 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