The Mar-a-Lago raid will go down as a significant milestone in this country’s fraught history of post-presidential accountability. What can we glean from this development based on the limited information currently available to us? Ankush Khardori writes
Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images On Monday, to put it as gently as possible, a former president’s home was involuntarily searched for evidence of criminal conduct and so far as anyone can tell, nothing like it has ever happened before in this country. The FBI conducted an unannounced search of Mar-a-Lago, apparently as part of a criminal investigation into whether Donald Trump mishandled classified information after he left office.
The search of Trump’s Florida residence apparently did not come out of the blue. According to CNN, the FBI interviewed “aides to Trump at Mar-a-Lago” as part of the investigation in the spring, and in June, investigators visited the property to speak with Trump’s lawyers about classified information in his possession. Trump himself reportedly popped in to say hello.
In much more routine criminal investigative settings, this happens from time to time when the Justice Department has first tried to obtain voluntary cooperation from someone but feels like it may have hit a wall and perhaps no longer trusts the lawyers or the party it has been dealing with.
This self-aggrievement on the part of Trump was not exactly surprising, nor was the widespread condemnation of the search by Republican politicians and operatives that began almost immediately after the news broke. Trump seems to believe — or perhaps just wants to look like he believes — that it is good for him politically if the Justice Department is pursuing him.
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