FBI raids Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home Republicans are united behind the former President.
Update from August 10, 07:45: Former US President Donald Trump has announced his successor Joe Biden accused of having known in advance about the search of his property in the US state of Florida. “Biden knew all about it, just like he knew about Hunter’s ‘deals,'” Trump wrote Tuesday night (local time) on Truth Social, a network he co-founded. Trump was again alluding to allegations against Joe Biden’s son Hunter, with which he had repeatedly stirred up the mood in the 2020 presidential election campaign.
The White House had previously made it clear that it had not been informed in advance about the search of Trump’s property. “The President was not briefed and knew nothing about it. (…) No one in the White House was forewarned,” said White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre. She declined to comment on the ongoing investigation. Trump, on the other hand, ranted: “A terrible thing that happened yesterday in Mar-a-Lago. We are no better than a third world country, a banana republic.” He wrote of a “coordinated attack” against him.
Donald Trump: Republicans back former US President after raid
First report, August 9th: Mar-a-Lago – donald trump fumed. the Search of his Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach in the US state of Florida drove him crazy. On his network Truth Social he called the “unannounced raid on my house” a “political persecution” and an attack by “radical left Democrats”.
Donald Trump wasn’t the only one who was annoyed by the FBI’s actions, which had to do with Trump’s idiosyncratic handling of files and documents from his time in the White House. His party was also behind him wholeheartedly. The support of republican could theoretically even give Trump, who keeps flirting with a candidacy for the US election in 2024, a new boost.
USA: Republicans react to crackdown on Donald Trump
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has become Trump’s biggest supporter in Congress, didn’t make a killer pit out of her heart and reported on Twitter in the capital letters normally reserved for Trump with a clear message: “DEFUND THE FBI!”
With the desire to deprive the federal police of funds, she recalled the saying (“Defund the Police”), which had previously been used for Slogan of the nationwide protests against police violence in the USA had become.
Republican Rep. Don Bishop of North Carolina went a step further, also tweeting unequivocally urging his party to act: “Republicans need to smash the FBl into a million pieces.”
USA: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis anti-inflation bill
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who as potential challenger to Trump in the 2024 US election used the raid to criticize the anti-inflation bill that Democrats passed in the Senate over the weekend. Many Republicans believe the law will be used to attack conservatives.
This is also how DeSantis sees it, who spoke on Twitter of a “further escalation in the arming of federal authorities against the political opponents of the regime” and the United States succinctly referred to as the “Banana Republic”.
Raid on Donald Trump: Republicans see Marxists at work
Florida Senator Marco Rubio was also stunned. “The use of government power to persecute political opponents is something we have seen many times in Third World Marxist dictatorships,” he tweeted. “But never in America.”
In any case, the right in the USA currently sees Marxists at work everywhere. Political commentator Lou Dobbs, for example, said the FBI and Justice Department had “recklessly violated the Constitution and the law.” And therefore the men responsible for it are Joe Biden and [Justizminister] Merrick Garland nothing more than “Marxist thugs”.
Donald Trump: Raid as starting signal for candidacy in 2024?
Now may be the right time for Donald Trump to his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election to announce. This would be a way for him to dismiss investigations against him as politically motivated. In his message on Truth Social, he already complained that the democrats absolutely wanted to prevent him from competing again in 2024.
On the other hand, throws the New York Times the question of whether Trump should be allowed to take over the presidency if he violated applicable US law by taking files and documents from the White House. US federal law provides that taking, damaging, forging, or destroying government documents, among other things, is a crime. If convicted, there is a risk of a fine or imprisonment of up to three years. In addition, the person concerned should be disqualified from all public offices in the United States. (cs)