The Donald Trump’s residence raid by the FBI creates division: for some it is a first step towards a trial and for others a “political persecution”, in the midst of great polarization and when the former president considers running for the White House again.
Never has a former White House tenant had so many problems with the law.
Does the federal police raid have anything to do with the cardboard boxes that Donald Trump took when he left the White House in January 2021? With the investigation into his alleged responsibility in the assault on Capitol Hill? Or with suspicions of financial fraud hanging over the Trump Organization in New York?
AFP contacted the FBI but the FBI declined to comment.
Donald Trump pleads not guilty in each of these cases and considers himself the target of a witch hunt.
In a statement he harshly denounced the raid on his Florida mansion, which he did not attend. “These are dark times for our Nation,” she said. “This unannounced raid on my home was neither necessary nor appropriate,” he added.
“No one is above the law, not even a former president of the United States,” Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Tuesday. NBC. Like most Democrats, Pelosi has been calling for Trump to be held accountable for years.
The judicial escalation seems to have united the Republican Party more around Trump, to the point of making him a martyr.
Civil war
As soon as the raid was known, a group of Trump supporters went to the former president’s luxurious residence to unleash their fury.
Some of them waved flags that read “Biden is not my president,” a reminder that more than a year and a half after Donald Trump’s electoral defeat, many Americans remain convinced that the presidential election was “stolen” from him. of 2020.
On social media, some Trump supporters on Tuesday advocated a “divorce” in this country with divisions so deep they may seem irreconcilable.
“This is the kind of thing that succeeds in countries in civil war,” tweeted Marjorie Taylor Greene, a notoriously outspoken Georgia parliamentarian who called for the FBI to be dismantled. “The political persecution MUST STOP!!!”
I’ve talked a lot about the civil war in the GOP and I lean into it because America needs fearless & effective Republicans to finally put America First.
Last night’s tyrannical FBI raid at MAR is unifying us in ways I haven’t seen.
In January, we take on the enemy within.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene???????? (@RepMTG) August 9, 2022
Springboard for 2024?
The leader of the conservatives in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, denounced an “intolerable instrumentalization for political purposes” of the Department of Justice and promised an investigation into its operation as soon as the Republicans return to power.
He was even defended by his former right-hand man Mike Pence, possibly rivals in the Republican primaries of the 2024 presidential elections and with whom Trump has been at odds since the episode of the assault on Capitol Hill.
“I share the deep concern of millions of Americans over the unprecedented search of President Trump’s personal residence,” he tweeted.
I share the deep concern of millions of Americans over the unprecedented search of the personal residence of President Trump. No former President of the United States has ever been subject to a raid of their personal residence in American history.
— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) August 9, 2022
Republicans could regain control of Congress in midterm legislative elections in November.
The Conservatives’ favorite television network, Fox NewsHe did not skimp on criticism either. “The Department of Justice’s increasingly radical tactics are a danger to the republic”, “Biden’s FBI ransacks the house of one of his possible opponents for the 2024 elections”, read the signs.
Trump has already raised more than $100 million (an unprecedented amount for a former president) and could announce his candidacy for another term at any time. He now takes the opportunity to solicit more funds from his followers.
His team called on “every red-blooded American patriot to step up” and donate to fight what he called an “endless witch hunt.”