What if I told you there was a nefarious, convoluted right-wing plot to steal power from Democrats that implicates a president?

And what if I told you the power being stolen was from the mayor of Oakland, California, and that the president was Joe Biden?

This is the incredible conspiracy theory being put forth by Democratic Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, whose house was raided by the FBI last week. She has not yet been charged with a crime, and it is not clear what the raid may be about, but it also comes on the heels of recall organizers turning in signatures for a recall election to boot Thao from office as crime continues to grow worse in Oakland.

Thao complained about the FBI not giving her a heads-up that she was being raided. (Where is the “courtesy”?) She declared, “There are a lot of radical right-wing forces who know they will never win an election in Oakland fair and square.” She also implied that the FBI was part of that group, asking why the FBI thought that “the day following the qualification of a recall election, funded by some of the richest people in the Bay Area, seemed like the right day to execute a warrant.”

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So, to recap this conspiracy theory, as laid out by Thao: Biden’s right-wing FBI is working with rich people to steal power in the 46th largest city in the country. Oakland is only the third largest city in the Bay Area and the eighth largest city in California, and apparently, shadowy-secret right-wingers who have managed to co-opt Joe Biden’s FBI decided that this would be the best way to use that power.

In reality, while the details of the FBI raid are unknown, Thao is facing a recall because her soft-on-crime mindset (including supporting defunding the police and weakening the police department) has allowed crime to run rampant in Oakland. She has no one to blame for the recall but herself. The only way this recall election would not be “fair and square” would be if she truly thinks Biden’s FBI is trying to force her out of office as part of a right-wing plot, which would speak to her lack of good judgment as much as anything else.