Following the police operation carried out in his residence in Mar-A-Lago, the ex-president is encouraged by his supporters to announce his candidacy for 2024.
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For once, Donald Trump did not exaggerate. “Nothing like this has ever happened to an American president,” he complained in a statement on Monday August 8, a few hours after the “raid of a large number” of FBI agents in his “beautiful residence from Mar-A-Lago to Palm Beach “, in Florida. In the opinion of the historians, the search of the federal police in the residence, even if it is vacation, a president or former president has not, in fact, known as a precedent. The interpretation that the ex-president is clear is clear: the “radical left seeks to [the] prevent [s] e to present in 2024”.
In terms of protection of national archives, the chronicle has well retained a few lawsuits for offenses to the law, targeting the ex-advisor of President Bill Clinton Sandy Berger, or the former general of the American army David Petraeus , who will be condemned for having disclosed documents classified to his partner.
But nothing as heavy as the search of Monday, at a time when the republican party is on the defensive on the political field, and more than ever obsessed with Mr. Trump: his possible candidacy for 2024, his Role of troublemaker in the primaries, his actions during the insurrection of January 6, 2021, his tax declarations (last episode of the soap: the Court of Appeal of the District of Columbia estimated, Tuesday, August, that the Congress was entitled to access it; the Supreme Court must rule).
And even her toilets, since Maggie Haberman, the political journalist of the New York Times, posted on Monday, in the forefront of a book of revelations announced for October, two photos showing pieces of torn papers floating in a basin. Where we clearly distinguish the writing in the black stabilo of Donald Trump, already known for his propensity to make confetti of documents, including officials …
political storm
In the August scorching landscape, the search caused a political storm, obscuring what was to be the event of the day: the second post-Cavid outing of Joe Biden, in order to promote the law, approved by the Two parties, allowing the investment of $ 200 billion in the manufacture of semiconductors in the United States. The president signed the law before the White House, not without coughing several times. He did not have a word for the search of the FBI. His spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said he had not been warned of the operation. If it had been, commentators pointed out, he would not have chosen such a telescoping of “news”, while he hopes to change the perception of his assessment, less than three months from the mid- mandate.
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