The FBI search of Donald Trump's Florida resort is an extraordinary, historic development given that it targeted a former President of the United States and set off a political uproar he could use to stoke his likely 2024 White House bid.
The news was one of the most staggering twists yet in the story of Trump, who was impeached twice, incited a mob riot to try to overturn his 2020 election loss and constantly tore at the guardrails of his office and democracy during his single term, and afterward, like no other President.
In some ways, his statement, in itself, read like the opening salvo of a new presidential campaign built around a narrative of persecution by deep-state forces, familiar from the approach of other strongmen leaders around the world. The instant reactions supportive of the former President, more testimony to his enduring power within the Republican Party, were also an early sign how this investigation will face extreme political pressure. Those responses may also show that the ex-President's potential 2024 campaign could benefit from the rallying effect of a government investigation that he can portray as politicized and unfair -- and that potential GOP rivals may have little option but to rally around too.
"This is something that would have been planned out and reevaluated and legally examined from every possible angle by the entirety of the leadership structure of both organizations," McCabe, a CNN law enforcement analyst, said.
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