Trump turns lawful search into play for victimhood
By Robin Givhan / The Washington Post
Former President Donald Trump is on a tear. He has declared himself a victim of government overreach. He has argued that he’s being persecuted by his political enemies. He lamented the desecration of his sprawling Palm Beach home at Mar-a-Lago. Poor him.
As the FBI was searching his Florida residence Monday evening, Trump reeled off a missive to anyone who would listen, which is to say millions of people on his email list, that his “beautiful home” was “under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents.” He chalked this up to “Radical Left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for President in 2024.”
He peppered his statement with randomized capitalization. He made liberal use of exclamation points. He spoke of himself in the third person. Trump’s description of his persecution began with the political: “What is the difference between this and Watergate, where operatives broke into the Democrat National Committee? Here, in reverse, Democrats broke into the home of the 45th President of the United States.” Then he shifted to the personal: “They even broke into my safe!”
The search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence is linked to the long-running investigation of his possible mishandling of classified documents. This year, the National Archives and Records Administration collected more than a dozen boxes of papers and other items from Trump’s home; items that the law required the former president turn over to the National Archives when he left office.
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