I am hearing people on the news referring to the “F.B.I. raid” on Mar a Lago and making much of the fact that serving a search warrant on a former president is unprecedented. And I want to point out:

It wasn’t a raid. It was a serving of a court-approved search warrant. I guess Trumpworld’s life on the margins of criminality has led them to think in terms of “raids,” as in G-men breaking into a speakeasy and yelling “This is a raid!”

Yes, serving a search warrant on an ex-president was unprecedented, but it is unprecedented for us to have a ex-president who is a criminal.

Trump denounces the Democrats for “weaponizing” the Dept. of Justice. Here is another case of Trump accusing others of doing things of which he himself is guilty. Trump tried to coerce the Dept of Justice to participate in his “Stop the steal” conspiracy. His stooge inside the Department, the criminal-lawyer Jeffrey Clark, drafted fraudulent letters for the D.O.J. to send to state legislatures in an attempt to overturn the election. I guess that was not weaponizing.

Workers in the right-wing lie factory in the media and a lot of Republican blow-hards are incandescent in their horror and sense of sacrilege as they zealously denounce the search of Mar a Lago. I’m sorry, but Trump does not have diplomatic immunity, he is not the Pope, not a God-anointed King, he is not in any way sacrosanct. He is a common criminal.