The fact that the Federal Bureau of Investigation searched Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago on Monday makes one thing very clear: the legal vice is tightening around the former President even as he mulls over whether or not to run for president again in 2024.
“My beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents,” Trump posted on Truth Social, his preferred social network, on Monday evening.
“My beautiful home” refers to Trump’s private club in Palm Beach, Florida, known as Mar-A-Lago. Additionally, he stated, “they even broke into my safe.”
It would appear that the agents’ attention is being concentrated on the portion of the enormous estate that contains Trump’s residential quarters as well as his offices.
It was not immediately clear what the FBI was after, nor what the agents were looking for in particular when they conducted their search.
CNN cites a source familiar with the inquiry as saying that the search resulted in the confiscation of several boxes containing various materials.
As part of a grand jury investigation into whether or not Trump or anyone close to him mishandled classified documents that he took with him after leaving the White House in January, federal investigators issued a subpoena to the National Archives and Records Administration in May for access to classified documents that were taken to Trump’s home in Florida. This is something that we are aware of.
The 15 boxes of White House records that President Trump had brought with him to Mar-a-Lago earlier this year were found, collected, and delivered back to the National Archives.
Letters from North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and letters from former President Barack Obama were among the documents that were found in the boxes that were returned.
The search was conducted on the same day that photographs were published by Maggie Haberman of The New York Times showing what seems to be torn-up letters written in Trump’s signature handwriting that were found in public restrooms, including one that was located in the White House.
This aligns with a report that was published by CNN in the middle of February:
“Three former White House officials have told CNN that they witnessed President Trump destroy papers by hand on numerous occasions when he was either no longer interested in them or had finished reviewing them.
This practice made it difficult for White House staff secretaries to preserve presidential records. According to those sources, the former president went through his file boxes in a pretty methodical manner, ripping up newspaper clippings or draughts of tweets that he had rejected and discarding them on the floor, or stacking things he desired to hang on to in an unruly mound atop his desk.
According to the Presidential Records Act, it is against the law to dispose of notes, emails, and other forms of presidential communication. This law may be found in the United States Code.
(The Act stipulates that any and every correspondence sent or received by a president becomes the property of the people in the end.)
The execution of a search warrant by the FBI comes just a few days after the news leaked that lawyers for Trump are in contact with the Justice Department over its ongoing investigation into the disturbance that took place at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.
According to the initial claim that was published by CNN, “The talks centre around whether Trump would be allowed to mask conversations he had while he was president from federal investigators.”
In recent weeks, investigators have made bold moves into Trump’s orbit, issuing subpoenas to top former White House officials, concentrating on efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and conducting searches of lawyers who sought to assist those efforts.
CNN has claimed that President Trump has recently questioned members of his legal staff about the possibility that he may be indicted, even though the president himself is sceptical that this step will be necessary. (It is important to keep in mind that Trump is not a lawyer.)
The chain of events, which culminated with the highly publicised search of Trump’s residence on Monday, reinforces a fundamental fact about Trump’s condition, which is that it is far more likely that a legal problem will prevent him from running for president in 2024 than a political problem will do so.
In terms of politics, Trump is still the 800-pound monster in the room among the Republican candidates. He won a straw poll at a conservative conference in Texas over the weekend with an overwhelming majority of the vote.
In addition to this, he has all but confirmed that he plans to run for office once more; the primary concern at this time is not if he will run for office again, but rather when he will make his candidacy official.
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All of that is made more difficult by the growing number of legal problems that President Trump is facing, or at the very least by the unmistakable impression that the many investigations are drawing ever closer to him.
Accepting the fact that Trump is being investigated by the judicial system is important for Republicans. Indictments against Trump would be a completely different matter.
Obviously, we have not arrived at our destination yet. However, the actions taken by the FBI on Monday give the impression that President Trump’s legal woes will continue to worsen before they begin to improve. And things may grow much, much worse.
