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Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski appeared on an Anchorage podcast saying Alaska voters should not question the FBI’s decision to raid former President Trump’s private residence at Mar-a-Lago.
Speaking on the With All Due Respect podcast with former state legislator and political ally Andrew Halcro, Murkowski said, “We are branding our law enforcement to the point where — are we trusting our law enforcement?” she rhetorically asked about the FBI’s raid. “Are we trusting those who are there to protect our citizenry?”
“I’m talking about people who, before they knew a single thing, before they knew what was coming out of the Mar-a-Lago, they had made a decision about whether or not the FBI was once again on a rampage to bring somebody down or whether or not, you know, Trump brought it upon himself,” she said.
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Murkowski failed to acknowledge that no former president has ever been raided by his political opponent in American history. Instead, she blamed many Republicans for condemning the FBI’s actions.
Murkowski also seemed to have forgotten the FBI’s sordid role in raiding Sen. Ted Stevens’ home in Girdwood. Stevens, an old man by then at 84, was indicted the next year in Washington, D.C. on seven counts of failing to properly report gifts from a VECO Corporation executive; the gifts pertained to renovations to his home that the executive, who was using the home, had failed to bill Stevens for.
In 2009, an FBI agent filed an affidavit saying that federal prosecutors and FBI agents had withheld and hidden exculpatory evidence. The agent said prosecutors sent a key witness back to Alaska because he did not “perform well” in a mock cross-examination, and hid a memo from oil executive Bill Allen in which Allen said that Stevens would have paid for the goods and services if billed. The affidavit also contended that a female FBI agent had an inappropriate relationship with Allen, according to the National Registry of Exonerations. Stevens was exonerated and the Justice Department prosecution was held in contempt by the judge for failing to turn over the documents that would have aided Stevens’ defense.
But Murkowski didn’t connect the dots on that gross misuse of federal agents that took down Stevens that year, nor did she appear to recall the Capitol Police/FBI breaking into the home of the Homer couple in search of Nancy Pelosi’s laptop in 2021.
Sen. Dan Sullivan, after the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, quickly expressed grave concerns about the Justice Department being weaponized against political opponents.
“Like so many Americans, I am very disturbed by the unprecedented raid executed by the FBI against a former president. The Department of Justice at the highest levels—the attorney general and the director of the FBI—needs to explain the reasons for another FBI raid that has the appearance of the justice system being weaponized against political opponents,” Sullivan said, after Trump’s home was raided.
Halcro and Murkowski have long political and familial ties. While serving together in the Alaska House of Representatives in the 1990s, they formed what they called a “bipartisan fiscal caucus” to propose state income taxes on Alaskans, or alternatively using the Permanent Fund earrings to run state government. The two are considered political friendlies. Halcro ran his family’s rental car business, had a failed run for governor, was co-owner and president of Great Northern Cannabis in downtown Anchorage, headed up the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, worked in a politically appointed position in the Mayor Ethan Berkowitz administration, and now runs a leftist political podcast for the Anchorage Daily News, in which he stays relevant by attacking conservatives.
