FBI raids Mar-a-Lago
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It doesn't really matter. They could have raided his house for a box of cookies. You don't raid President's homes, even ones that are unpopular or disgraced. They are pretty well protected politically. I don't necessarily agree, but that's the way it is. It's a warning shot at Trump's head. "Next time, we won't miss."
Hell, think of the FoxCatcher murder. A well connected millionaire straight up killed a man in cold blood, in public, in his house. The police didn't go in until he surrendered himself, and simply went in to gather crime scene evidence. Rich & connected people don't get treated like others. This is them treating him as bad as they would treat a Jan. 6'er.
They would have to be pretty blind to think that there's not going to be blowback politically, even by establishment Republicans, or MAGA adjacent people like Ted Cruz. They kind of have to respond to this because there's no reason that they wouldn't be next. After all, Cruz has been accused of attempting to assassinate AOC by co-ordinating the Jan 6 'attacks on the Capitol', and was wearing far-right iconography on his boots.
It's 1,000 times worse than when they raided Project Veritas at the behest of the New York Times, and even then you had journalistic and legal organizations coming out and saying, "uhhh... we want O'Keefe dead as much as you do, but this makes us look shady as shit."
If it were a "he can't do shit", it would be really stupid.
If anything, I would think it would be so malicious that they are hoping it would cause right-wing violence.
While I largely agree with you, do not underestimate the hubris of men drunk on power.
I agree with that. I mean what are the odds really that they find evidence of a heretofore unknown Trump crime by searching his office? At this point. After investigating him since he was running for President. They are fucking with him, and they are fishing. It seems unlikely they find anything, but from their perspective the raid itself is useful propaganda so may as well do it. It costs them just their reputation, which is nonexistent at this point. I mean I guess they score points with TDS morons.