There are lots of theories as to why the FBI raided Donald Trump’s home in Mar-A-Lago, and several of them could be true at the same time.
During a recent episode of BrightonTV’s America Unhinged where I guest hosted for Dr John Diamond, I broke down the five most plausible motivations for this raid.
1. Intimidate Donald Trump and his base
There’s a pattern of the corrupt Department of Justice and FBI appearing to attempt to setup Donald Trump and the America First Movement to look like violent extremists and enemies of America. We saw that with the public portrayal of the MAGA rallies, January 6th and now the FBI raid on President Donald Trump’s home at Mar-A-Lago.
One of the tactics often used by the Deep State is to make examples of people as a warning to not follow in their footsteps. It’s possible that this was part of their motivation when it comes to the FBI raid… they see Donald Trump as Public Enemy #1, and they want all of his followers to know that if we continue following President Trump, that they can do this to us, as well.
2. Fish for information that can be used to prosecute President Trump
Given the fact that the Mueller Investigation wasted millions of taxpayer dollars trying to find a tie -any tie- to Russia, then the ridiculous impeachment trial attempting to claim Trump had an illegal phone conversation with the Ukrainian President, followed by the January 6th Commission’s show trial attempting to claim Trump incited a violent insurrection… it’s clear that there’s a pattern of the Deep State throwing out a wild conspiracy theory as fact, and then attempting to find any evidence that they can to support their ridiculous claim. While they’ve yet to find any corrupt dealings with President Trump, they are doing everything they can to find anything they can twist into supporting their claims.
3. Disqualify Trump from running for President
According to US Code Title 18, Section 2071: anyone who “willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or with intent to do so takes and carries away any record” faces a fine and up to three years in prison. That person would also “forget his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.
Remember, the 2020 Election was stolen in order to establish Joe Biden as the Alleged President of the United States. Trump won in a landslide. The Democrats could be terrified that Trump is going to win in such large numbers that they see their only chance at being able to win without getting caught cheating is to disqualify him from running on a technicality.
4. Force Ron DeSantis out of the 2024 Presidential race
One of the other interesting angles that I’ve heard is that the Democrats are actually more scared of Ron DeSantis running for President than Donald Trump, and here’s why:
While Donald Trump’s America First base is rabidly supporting him, many middle of the road Republicans, Independent’s and small percentage of Democrats that are sick of Biden just can’t bring themselves to vote for Donald Trump. They just want to move on from the extreme polarization, and while they may agree with Trump’s policies, they don’t want another four years of chaos that occurred with the Dems constantly bashing Trump.
With Ron DeSantis, they see someone who is an America First policy guy, without being as extremely polarizing on a personality level as Trump. But how would the FBI raid force DeSantis out of the race?
The hope would be that they could coerce Trump into announcing he is running for President, which would make it virtually impossible for DeSantis to enter the race without being seen as anti-Trump and pissing off the America First base. If DeSantis gets in the race before Trump, then he wouldn’t be seen as being a Trump challenger. But if he gets in the race first, before Trump, he’ll have the opportunity to gain a following and make his case before Trump jumps in the race.
All that to say, if DeSantis can’t announce he’s running for president until after he wins re-election as governor in Florida come November. While Trump has been toying with announcing after the Mid-Terms, since the FBI raid, there’s been lots of talk he’d announce sooner than later, which would make DeSantis entering the race virtually impossible.
5. Escalate tensions in the hopes of inciting a repeat of January 6th or even a Civil War
The most extreme scenario, yet also quite plausible, is that the Deep State is trying to divide our nation even more and incite utter chaos. The America First crowd was setup by the FBI on January 6th, which falsely painted us all as violent extremists. The FBI raid has caused tensions to rise, since our own government is being weaponized against us. The goal of the Deep State could be to inflame the situation to get some people to stupidly resort to violence, creating either a repeat of January 6th or even an outbreak of civil war.
Conclusion
All of these scenarios are just speculation on my part, but each of them seem plausible in their own way. I took a deeper dive into each of these scenarios, as well as what do we do about it during this episode of America Unhinged on BrighteonTV that I guest-hosted for Dr John Diamond. I encourage you to watch it in its entirety.
I’ve published a couple of books on the Deep State’s strategy of destroying America. The book Social Injustice takes a look at the ideology of the Social Justice movement, while Church & State dives into the strategy of infiltration. You can order both of these books at https://jeffdornik.com/store. Use code JEFF for 20% off.
On The Jeff Dornik Show, I recently had Latinos for Trump’s Bianca Gracia on to discuss the spiritual aspect of why God might have allowed Trump to “lose” the 2020 Election. You can catch it here:
Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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