Trump is hopping mad about the FBI raid today, especially about his safe.
So let’s speculate on the contents of that safe. What is your best guess of the contents of Donald Trump’s safe? Here is mine:
1) The Pee Tape
2) Incriminating stuff on Graham and McConnell
3) A large quantity of old hamberder wrappers
4) Missing White House silverware
5a and b) Josh Cawley’s testes
Maybe some had no faith in cooperation and destruction of evidence was likely?
Rarely has there been such a sensitive time in US politics
There is a school of thought that the timing of this search is designed to avoid the long-held maxim that the Justice Department does not engage in actions that are deemed politically sensitive, near the time of an election.
We are exactly three months away from the poll that will determine the makeup of the next Congress, and rarely has there been such a sensitive time in American politics.
The November result will determine Joe Biden’s ability to get things done in the next two years of his presidency and could mark the start of another Trump campaign.
The former president certainly believes the motives behind the “raid” were entirely political, a move designed to scupper his chances of running for the White House in 2024.
There is much that we do not know, but Trump’s supporters are apoplectic with rage at what’s happened.
It is an open question why a search warrant was needed to enter Mar-a-Lago when the former president said he had been cooperating with the relevant government agencies, but it is a hugely significant move by the Justice Department.