Will the FBI investigation be the scandal that torpedoes Donald Trump's chances at a 2024 presidential run? Here's what we know. Read more here:
Former US President Donald Trump greets supporters during a rally on 5 August 2022 in Waukesha, Wisconsin.On Monday, former United States president Donald Trump revealed that his Mar-a-Lago residence was being raided by federal police.
"No former President of the United States has ever been subject to a raid of their personal residence in American history," Mr Pence wrote on Twitter.The raid has fuelled speculation around a potential bid for the US presidency in 2024 by Mr Trump, with the former president releasing a campaign-style video after news broke.
David Smith, an associate professor in American politics and foreign policy at the University of Sydney’s US Studies Centre, said it was possible Mr Trump had broken US law. Australian National University political scientist Charles Miller said the FBI’s use of a search warrant to raid Mar-a-Lago rather than merely issuing a subpoena to request the items be handed over was “unprecedented”.
The documents in question are “so sensitive that the National Archives can't even describe them in the vaguest terms without breaching national security legislation”, he said.Dr Miller said the political fallout from the raids has been “quite predictable” on both sides. “The Trump base are basically buying this as they bought into the rationalisations for the other pieces of [Mr Trump’s] behaviour over the last few years. So I don't actually think that this is really going to change very much,” he said.
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