FBI raidedDonald Trump's Florida private residence following news of an "unprecedented" move that sparked threats of reprisal , a shock wave spread across America. From a former US president and his allies.
It is also likely that calls for accountability from opponents will push Trump to announce his candidacy ahead of the pivotal midterm elections in November. Speculation abounded as to what the plans to run again meant.
Court raid on Trump'sMar-a-Lagomansion follows lengthy probe into whether Trump mishandled classified government documents upon leaving the White House appeared to be related to
Trump announced that "Mar-a-Lago, a beautiful home in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently being surrounded, raided and occupied by a large group of FBI agents." Hours later, leaders of the topRepublicanparty rallied in his defense as America's already divided politics roiled in the backlash to the raid.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has threatened to investigate the Justice Department if his party gains control of Congress next year.
} "We've seen enough," said the California Republican in a statement posted online. "The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization."
He went further, saying that if he wields the gavel next year, House Republicans will have Attorney General Merrick Garland "Attorney General Garland, please keep your papers and clear your schedule," he wrote.
Democrats welcomed the raid, lobbying the State Department to bring criminal charges against the former president's role in the January 6 attacks on the US Capitol.
"It's a terrifying precedent for the Justice Department to investigate a former president of the United States," said Ted, a Democrat from California who served as Trump's manager in his second impeachment trial. Rep. Liu said. "The only bad precedent is @TheJusticeDept not doing an investigation because he happens to be a former president. No one is above the law."
Democrats also Republicans have accused the Republican Party of hypocrisy after years of calling for an indictment of Hillary Clinton, who became a rival of Trump in 2016.
Rep. Don Beyer, a Democratic Rep. from Virginia, said, referring to McCarthy: Political enemy.
"These same people talk as if Trump is above the law. He's not above the law."
Monday Night In an interview with Fox News, Trump's son, Eric Trump, said the search was done because "the National Archives wanted to see if they had any documents in Donald Trump's possession."
Blaming the FBI, the young Trump said he believed the raid was an attempt to stop his father from running for office again in 2024.
– And I am saying this for the first time – Let him go out and beat these guys again because honestly this country will not survive this nonsense "I hope it will happen," he said. Some speculate that it benefits him politically.Some say his supporters of federal law enforcement officers who have long accused Trump and his allies of being corrupt and bigoted But it also helped rally his allies and potential 2024 Republican rivals to his side.
2024 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who was seen as a leading candidate for the White House, said the search for Trump's beachfront property was "a further escalation in the weaponization of the federal agency against the administration's political opponents."
The Republican insinuation that Biden was behind the raid appears unfounded. The White House said it was unaware of the search before it happened.As president, Mr. Biden came after years of pressure for Mr. Trump to push the attorney general's political agenda forward, and the Justice Department
As news of the search for Mar-a-Lago reverberates across the country, a crowd throngs outside Trump's luxury resort in Florida as his supporters waved the American flag and held up a campaign sign with Mike Pence's name crossed out.
Far-right Trump supporters online were outraged by the FBI's search for Mara in his Lago. Within hours of its publication, references to "civil war"surged on Twitter,and Maga and QAnon forums noted a striking similarity between violent rhetoric and civil war threats. } Analysts and reporters notedto the types of activity observed on these platforms leading up to the Jan. 6 attacks on the US Capitol. The top comment on pro-Trump message boards was: "Lock and load."
Trump, who was in New York during the search, tried to capitalize on the wrath of his supporters with a series of fundraising calls that referred to his raid. "Please donate immediately," he wrote in one such email. I briefly explained about the raid.
"Another day in paradise," Trumptold his supporters on Monday night. "Today is a strange day. You've probably read it, but it's very important."
