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Donald Trump wants to monetize the FBI raid – and rails against Biden

2022-08-09T23:56:04.196Z


Donald Trump wouldn't be Donald Trump if he didn't also want to profit from the FBI's operation on his estate. Referring to his successor, Joe Biden, he said: "He knew about it."


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Police and security forces in front of the entrance to Mar-a-Lago

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When investigators search the house of an ex-president, it's an unusual process, even by American standards.

For Donald Trump, however, the spectacular action by the federal police seems to be an opportunity to present himself as a victim - and to generate profit from it.

Shortly after the footage was broadcast on every news program in the country, thousands of emails and text messages were sent to potential donors.

The call: Give diligently to stop the conspiracy against Trump and the party.

"You're trying to stop me and the Republican Party again," says one of those messages.

"This lawlessness, political persecution and witch hunt must be uncovered and stopped."

On Monday, the FBI searched Trump's home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.

According to initial findings, the background to the action was the search for government documents.

At the beginning of the year it became known that the national archives responsible for storing presidential correspondence suspected 15 boxes with confidential material, among other things, in Trump's private club.

Trump finally handed over several documents to the authority.

Now he raised serious allegations against his successor in office.

Joe Biden knew about the search.

"Biden knew all about it, just like he knew about Hunter's 'deals,'" Trump wrote Tuesday night on Truth Social, a network he co-founded.

Trump was again alluding to allegations against Joe Biden's son Hunter, with which he had repeatedly stirred up the mood in the 2020 presidential election campaign.

Trump had tried to link Biden to his son Hunter's alleged dubious dealings in Ukraine.

The White House had previously made it clear that it had not been informed in advance about the search of Trump's property.

“The President was not briefed and knew nothing about it.

(...) No one in the White House was forewarned," said White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre.

She declined to comment on the ongoing investigation.

Trump, on the other hand, ranted: "A terrible thing that happened yesterday in Mar-a-Lago.

We're no better than a Third World country, a banana republic.' He wrote of a 'coordinated attack'.

Trump's former vice gives backing

Former US Vice President Mike Pence stood behind his ex-boss after the search.

"I share the deep concern of millions of Americans at the unprecedented search of President Trump's home," he wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.

The appearance of partiality on the part of the Ministry of Justice must be removed.

"Yesterday's action undermines public confidence in our legal system, and Attorney General Garland must account fully to the American people for why this action was taken, and he must do so without delay," he wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Pence recently distanced himself from Trump.

He is said to have ambitions to run for the presidency in 2024.

Trump also keeps flirting with a candidacy, but has not yet officially declared it.

Should Trump be prosecuted at the end of a possible investigation, this could potentially stand in the way of a renewed candidacy.

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Source: spiegel

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