Questions about the behaviour of President Biden and his son appear far more pressing and serious than the accusations levelled at Trump over Monday's FBI raid, writes The Spectator Australia Online Editor Alexandra Marshall.
Win or lose, the effort required to rise above the Trumpian noise will likely exhaust them as the regime also tackles plummeting approval ratings, a cost-of-living crisis and the ongoing nightmare that is Hunter Biden.
As a one-term President, there are not many ways to fence Trump off from the White House unless, as has been suggested in recent days, he were to fall afoul to various accusations including Section 2071 of Title 18 in the United States Code in which a person “wilfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys” records belonging to the government.
It was only one of many bizarre occurrences, including claims the FBI forced Trump’s lawyer to view the search warrant from 10 feet away.Trump’s lawyer Christina Bobb said FBI officials eventually let her see it after an exchange about whether it was appropriate to withhold a warrant when searching the home of the former President.
“[Trump] secretly received a grand jury subpoena for classified documents belonging to the National Archives, and voluntarily cooperated by turning over responsive evidence, surrendering security surveillance footage, and allowing federal agents and a senior Justice Department lawyer to tour his private storage locker,”It was after a first cordial visit that the DOJ advised Trump to secure a storage locker with a better lock, later installed by the Secret Service.
“My beautiful home… is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents,” he said. The primary concern for many political commentators in America, including those who do not necessarily appreciate Trump’s leadership style, is the apparent inconsistency when it comes to the FBI.
“All they want to do is they want to get Donald Trump … and they do it for one reason: because they don’t want Donald Trump to run and win again in 2024.” The FBI raid may be overshadowed by Trump’s second problem – his appearance in front of the New York Attorney-General related to a civil investigation into the Trump Organisation and the suspicion of inflated real estate values.
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