The Trump Raid Found Nothing
Leaks confirm it
Imagine you saw a white man in his 50s entering a hotel room w/ a young Asian girl, so you called the cops only to learn that you’d just harassed a man who was taking his daughter to Disney World. Would you tell people that you had reported what you thought was a case of a guy paying for 1 guest, but permitting a 2nd to stay in the room for free? Nope, you’d claim you had reported sex trafficking - that is, you’d try to justify the enormity of your error by claiming you were trying to stop something really really terrible. Can’t be too careful about sex trafficking, you know.
Same thing here: they’re leaking Trump had the nuclear codes or whatever because they found nothing; they need to justify their error.
Look, we aren’t hearing about what they were LOOKING for by accident - we’re hearing about what they were LOOKING for because what they FOUND was so embarrassing. As soon as some other story gives them an excuse to bury the lede, we’ll learn they found nothing, but we already know the truth. If they’d caught him on anything, even something minor, they’d use that to justify their actions. (“Sure, maybe we’d have caught him some other way, but we caught him” is a pretty good defense - hard to argue with success.) Their desperate attempts to justify what they did w/o actually pointing to anything Trump did (merely the things they THOUGHT he did) means he did nothing because nobody uses a weak defense when a stronger defense is available.
Once again, therefore, Trump is innocent. Anybody else seeing a pattern here?