Trump's Deflections and Defenses to the FBI Search and Seizure: A Primer on Why Each Fails
After news broke a week ago—from the former president himself no less—that the FBI had conducted a search of his property at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, Trump and very soon his allies began a drumbeat of deflections and defenses. These were so numerous and often contradictory that they called to mind Steve Bannon’s infamous advice about the media, saying the way to best deal with them is to “flood the zone with shit.”
That flooding began with re-characterizing a courteous and professional search as a “raid” upon his “home” and continued with at least the following:
It’s a political witch hunt by corrupt authorities
There was no legal basis for the warrant
The FBI planted evidence
It was only a procedural dispute over trivial items
WhataboutHillary and WhataboutObama
As president Trump declassified everything
They took privileged documents
Any one of these could be its own lengthy write-up but given that it’s also important to have clear and simple responses, we need to cut through what is essentially a squirt of orange ink into these legal waters.
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