Monday, August 15, 2022
Last week, the FBI executed a search warrant at Donald Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. So far, the fallout from that event foremost shows me just how deeply polarized the U.S. are.
On the one side, Democrats say that this shows that no one is above the law. And that Trump is in serious legal trouble.
On other side, there are the Trump supporters (and Republicans in congress who depend on his supporters to get elected). They immediately and instinctively jumped to his defense. They claim that Democrats are obsessed with "getting Trump" and have reached a new level of politicizing the FBI.
As Trump said himself at the very beginning of his political career: he could shoot somebody on fifth avenue and wouldn't lose any votes. It truly is incredible.
This said, we don't know for sure which side is right at this point in time. It could be the FBI overreacting. Let's not forget that the Russia investigation ended without a smoking gun and that the two impeachments went nowhere in the senate.
But it could also be the end of Trump's new candidacy for the White House. If he were to be convicted of something like espionage, it would be devastating blow. But that's a big if.
Trump's claim that the FBI would only have had to ask for the documents seems untrue, however. As we now know, they did precisely that. And if Trump were a victim of a political witch hunt, why didn't he proactively make the search warrant public?
The bottom line is that we will just have to wait until we learn more about what the FBI was searching for and what it actually found.
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