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2022-08-10T10:20:47.017Z


The FBI's search for Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida caused a major earthquake in American politics. DOJ and FBI for search behind


The FBI's search for Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida caused a major earthquake in American politics.

The Justice Department and the FBI remained silent on the judicial motives behind the search; Biden's White House stated that it had no prior knowledge; Republicans criticized this as the "weaponization" of the state apparatus, and the outgoing president and potential presidential candidate were searched for the first time It can only happen in "banana republics" and "third world Marxist dictatorships"; Trump, who never gave up any public relations opportunity, immediately released a campaign-flavored promotional video, which seems to have May be the first to announce his candidacy in the 2024 presidential election before the midterm elections.


The Department of Justice has already launched an investigation into Trump’s January 6, 2021 congressional riots, but according to US media sources, this search has nothing to do with it, but rather involves Trump’s improper use of confidential White House files processing, which may violate the Presidential Records Act of 1978.

The law was legislated in response to President Nixon's claim to White House records during the Watergate investigation.

In fact, as early as January this year, the National Archives had recovered 15 boxes of documents from Mar-a-Lago that were improperly taken away by Trump after leaving office, which allegedly included letters from Obama to Trump. Correspondence between Kim Jong Un and Trump.

The director of the National Archives (David Ferriero) later told Congress that it contained classified documents, and the Archives is communicating with the Justice Department about this, and will continue to look for other presidential files that have not been delivered to the Archives.

According to the "Wall Street Journal", investigators from the Justice Department went to Mar-a-Lago to negotiate with Trump himself and his lawyers in June, and then asked Trump to further strengthen the security of the document storage.

"Fox News" (Fox News) said that between June and August, the negotiations between Justice Department personnel and Trump's representatives appeared to be due to non-cooperation on Trump's side.

The FBI's search, according to analysis, was to inform Trump in advance, not a complete emergency.

Moreover, in order for the FBI to obtain a search warrant for the former president's residence, it would need to convince a judge that there was criminal evidence at the location being searched.

Although Trump described the search as a "siege, raid, and occupation," circumstantial evidence suggests that force was not used, and Trump himself did not live on the estate to avoid the hot Florida summers .

While there are no specific penalties under the Presidential Records Act, Trump could still face two criminal offenses.

One is the improper removal of confidential documents by government personnel, which can face fines and up to 5 years in prison; the other is the concealment, deletion and destruction of government documents, which can face fines and up to 3 years in prison, as well as disqualification from government positions.

However, since the U.S. Constitution has defined presidential qualifications, these "government positions" may not include the presidency. Trump, Trump is also likely not legally blocked from running.

Is the FBI's intervention an indirect help for Trump's election?

Moreover, this FBI search has turned Trump into a representative of the Republican Party, conservatives being politically suppressed by the "deep state" and Democratic authorities, and will consolidate Trump's leadership in the Republican Party and prompt him to make a decision. Determined to announce his candidacy for the next president.

Trump supporters gathered at the entrance of Mar-a-Lago after the FBI raid.

(AP)

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said the FBI raid showed "the Department of Justice has been weaponized and politicized to an intolerable level," suggesting that if Republicans win the House majority in November's election, Attorney General Merrick Garland will be investigated.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is regarded as Trump's biggest party opponent in 2024, also had to speak "very special", and followed the mainstream voice in the party to criticize the Justice Department's "weapon against political enemies" change".

In an interview with Fox News, Trump's second son, Eric Trump, even more bluntly stated that the Department of Justice's actions were all because Democrats "don't want Trump to run and win again in 2024." He claimed that he felt for the first time that Trump should "go out and beat these guys again".

In the past weekend, Trump himself claimed that "we will probably do it again", suggesting the possibility of running for the election.

The "Wall Street Journal" reported earlier that many Republican members of Congress lacked interest in Trump's candidacy, because many people believed that under the low popularity of the Democratic government, the only candidate who could lose It is Trump, and most politicians in the party are also opposed to Trump's announcement of his candidacy before the midterm elections, so as not to affect the deployment of the Republican Party to regain control of Congress.

As early as July, a New York Times poll showed that among potential candidates, although 49% of Republican respondents still wanted Trump to be elected, the proportion of other candidates was close to half.

Using government power to persecute political opponents is something we have seen many times from 3rd world Marxist dictatorships



But never before in America

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) August 9, 2022

As the FBI raid reunites Republican sentiment under Trump, political news website POLITICO quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that Trump's team will use the opportunity to unite allies and Republican congressional leaders on its political agenda Fundraising to run for the 2024 presidential election.

"If there was a 99 percent chance (Trump can run), that's 100 percent now. He's going to make the pursuit of the FBI part of his campaign platform."

"Fifty steps with a hundred steps"

Leaving aside other investigations into Trump's congressional riots, donation fraud, election fraud, etc., this FBI search, based on "classified records handling," and the GOP's response, if it is related to Hilary Clinton's "emails" in 2016 When looking at it together, it is hard for people to have a feeling of "fifty steps laughing at a hundred steps".

The "email door" scandal at that time was the number one weapon of the Trump camp's political attack against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

At the heart of the allegation is the mishandling of classified files, in particular the more than 30,000 emails that were eventually deleted from Clinton's private server when she was secretary of state.

Although the FBI has repeatedly stated that there is no proof that Hillary Clinton intentionally concealed the relevant emails, thinking that she was just "very careless", the Trump camp still insisted on it.

During the presidential debate, Trump said he would put Hillary Clinton in jail for the "email door" case.

(AP)

On the 11th day of Election Day, then FBI Director James Comey decided to notify Congress to reopen the Clinton investigation in order to maintain the FBI's impartial image in the face of emails from another unrelated case of Hillary's aides.

The move is widely seen as a big reason for Hillary Clinton's last-mile defeat.

Although two days before polling day, Comey said that after investigation, he maintained the judgment that Hillary should not be prosecuted, but Hillary's election has been powerless.

Compared with the Republicans who pursued the issue of "mishandling of classified files" back then, today's Republicans don't care about the mistakes of Trump and Hillary's "email door".

That year, after Comey first announced the results of the Clinton investigation, House Republican leader McCarthy said: "Secretary Hillary's fundamental lack of judgment and arbitrary disregard for the protection and preservation of classified information continues to cause concern about our country's diplomacy and security. The question of the exposure of national security secrets.” Now, in the face of Trump, who arbitrarily brought home dozens of boxes of presidential files, McCarthy has instead pointed the finger at the Justice Department.

That year, with only 75 days to go before Election Day, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said he wanted a special investigator outside the Justice Department to investigate Clinton.

Today, Graham criticized "we are only 100 days away from the midterm elections, President Trump may run again in 2024, and the investigation of the former president so close to the election has gone beyond 'problematic' (1). the range of words that can be described).”

That year, Trump's public relations representative (and later White House spokesman) Sarah Huckabee Sanders took to Twitter as Democrats clamored for the reopening of the Clinton investigation 11 days before Comey's election. "When you attack FBI personnel because you are under criminal investigation, you are failing."

Looking back at the Republicans' response today, it's not without a sense of absurdity.

When you're attacking FBI agents because you're under criminal investigation, you're losing https://t.co/SIoAxatCjp

— Sarah Huckabee Sanders (@SarahHuckabee) November 3, 2016

It's not surprising that politicians "take their positions with their butts".

But it is absurd that the subject of these disputes is the scandal of "mishandling of classified files", which has nothing to do with national governance, and it is these small scandals that have changed the overall political situation in the United States and the world.

Trump's astonishing election has changed the political culture of the United States and fueled the rise of the global right, but it is inseparable from the "emailgate" scandal that is hardly mentioned today.

This FBI search of Mar-a-Lago will also have a profound impact on the results of the mid-term elections, whether the Republican Party will become extreme, and who will hold the White House after 2024.

As with the "email door", the problem is that this incident should never have had this level of political influence.

When political scandals unrelated to governance continue to shape the political trend of a country, people may have to reflect and question the country's political system itself.

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