It is good to see that the FBI is back doing what it is supposed to do.
And that is to solve difficult criminal cases like the baffling Nancy Guthrie mystery, as well as to combat threats to the country.
It is hard to believe that it is the same agency working with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department in Tucson that was politized in 2022 when it raided Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home under fumbling, mumbling and stumbling President Joe Biden.
That was the unprecedented raid on the former president’s home allegedly launched to recover classified documents he was not supposed to have.
It was really designed to destroy Trump and not aimed at rooting out any crime.
The documents were similar to the classified documents that Biden was also not supposed to have but were stored for years haphazardly in boxes in the garage of his Wilmington home beside his vintage 1967 Chevy Stingray. They dated back to his days in the U.S. Senate.
The FBI allowed then President Biden to return the documents to the government.
But Donald Trump was indicted, arraigned and booked, mugshot and all. Instead of wrecking him, though, Trump used the episode in his 2024 campaign for a comeback to a second term as President.
The charges were eventually dismissed and Jack Smith, Biden’s special counsel who masterminded the FBI Mar-a-Lago raid, resigned from the Justice Department a month before Trump returned to the White House.
What the sad episode showed was that the politized U. S. Justice Department and the FBI under Joe Biden as inept in playing dirty politics as it was in cleaning up crime.
Smith now has his own problems based on his questionable performance as an objective prosecutor and his use, or misuse, of the FBI.
It was not the FBI’s finest hour.
Nor were the four years the FBI operated under Biden the best years of the agency’s life, as the FBI was used to go after political conservatives, conservative groups, as a well as vocal protesters at school committee meetings questioning COVID regulations.
Which is why it is so refreshing to watch the FBI work the Guthrie case. With all its amazing technical ability, it was able to restore and save from oblivion images and video footage of that strangely attired, armed man caught on what was thought to be a dead front door camera.
It was the break in the case that only the FBI could accomplish.
And while Trump, a hands-on President, took a personal interest in the case and provided FBI Director Kash Patel the means to go all out in solving the mystery, he will not get any credit from Trump-haters. Nor will Patel.
Democrats are so consumed with hate toward Trump that it has become Democrat Party policy, despite all of Trump’ accomplishments both at home and abroad.
In just one year Trump has become the most significant President since Ronald Reagan.
He shut the border down in just four weeks, something Biden could not, or would not, do in four years. He is ridding the country of violent criminal illegal immigrants. Crime now is at historic lows. He sharply cut the flow of drugs into the country. He rebuilt the military and is rebuilding the economy with a boom in energy production.
Internationally he has become the most important man in the world.
Contrast his approach to adversaries to that of Biden. Biden, the master strategist, is the author of the humiliating and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. Thirteen U.S. soldiers were killed at the Kabul Airport and Biden called the abandonment of Afghanistan a success.
That would not have happened under Trump, and everybody knows it, including the Democrats, which is why they hate him.
It is good for the country that Trump is back.
And the cool professionalism of the FBI operation in the Guthrie case shows that the FBI is back as well.
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas can be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com
