Analysis: ‘This is not a drill’: Trump raid galvanises supporters as some call for civil war | FarrahTomazin
: The FBI raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home was extraordinary – and yet almost inevitable.
An armed Secret Service agent stands outside an entrance to former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, in Palm Beach, Florida.While the raid happened swiftly and suddenly, the seeds of the search warrant were sown last year, when the National Archives and Records Administration began communicating with Trump’s representatives about boxes of White House records he had stored at his Mar-a-Lago property in West Palm Beach.
It also goes on to say that whoever is convicted of such a crime “shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding office under the United States.” Chillingly, some of his most ardent fans were even calling for violence, claiming, as Trump had, that the “radical Left” was trying to stop him from running for office again.“Getting ready for an uprising,” wrote another.“How dare they!” Jupiter resident Kathy Luksch stands with others gathered to support Donald Trump near Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.Legal experts say it wouldn’t be easy to get approval for a search warrant of this kind, particularly when it involves a former president.
Within hours, Trump’s Save America fundraising arm and the Republican National Committee was also using the news to solicit for campaign money. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is viewed as Trump’s biggest rival for the presidential nominee in 2024, called the incident a “weaponisation of federal agencies”.
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