COMMENTARY_ ‘No one is above the law,’ we were told

THE WASHINGTON TIMES 

‘No one is above the law,’ we were told 

That 'bedrock principle' also applies to Democrats

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COMMENTARY

By Kelly Sadler - The Washington Times - Monday, August 25, 2025 

OPINION: 


“The Mar-a-Lago raid proves the U.S. isn’t a banana republic,” an Atlantic headline read on Aug. 8, 2022. The article continued: “A bedrock principle is that no one — not even the president, much less the former president — is above the law, and if they commit crimes, they must answer for them.” 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the FBI sweep of former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, where agents rummaged through former first lady Melania Trump’s underwear drawer, showed that no one in the U.S. is above the law. 

“We believe in the rule of law. That is what our country is about,” Mrs. Pelosi said in an interview with NBC’s “Today” show at the time. “And no person is above the law. Not even the president of the United States. Not even a former president of the United States.” 

The raid was related to an investigation into Mr. Trump’s potential mishandling of classified documents, even though he had declassification powers as president, and was widely heralded by the corporate media and Democrats as to how a functioning democracy works. 

“No one is above the law, and the rule of law in a democracy … has to be our standard,” former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on ABC’s “The View” in September 2022, speaking of the federal investigation into Mr. Trump, signed off by Merrick Garland, President Biden’s attorney general. 

“We should be concerned about it, and we should follow the evidence,” Mrs. Clinton said. 

“I don’t think he cared about the classification system. I don’t think he appreciated the sensitivity of this information, and he didn’t appreciate the sensitivity of how it was often acquired, the so-called sources and methods,” John R. Bolton explained on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” after the Mar-a-Lago raid, speaking of the former president. 

“This had been briefed to him before I arrived; it was repeated frequently. I think it simply had no impact on him whatever,” Mr. Bolton concluded, talking about the time he served as Mr. Trump’s national security adviser and Mr. Trump’s carelessness over handling classified material, and praising the FBI raid. 

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