When Are Trump Supporters Complicit?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/when-are-trump-supporters-complicit/678704/
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On the morning of august 8, 2022, 30 FBI agents and two federal prosecutors conducted a court-authorized search of Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trumps Palm Beach, Florida, estate. The reason for the search, according to a 38-count indictment, was that after leaving office Trump mishandled classified documents, including some involving sensitive nuclear programs, and then obstructed the governments efforts to reclaim them.
On the day before the FBI obtained the search warrant, one of the agents on the case sent an email to his bosses, according to The New York Times. The F.B.I. intends for the execution of the warrant to be handled in a professional, low key manner, he wrote, and to be mindful of the optics of the search. It was, and they were.
Over the course of 10 hours, the Times reported, there was little drama as [agents] hauled away a trove of boxes containing highly sensitive state secrets in three vans and a rented Ryder box truck.
On the day of the search, Trump was out of the state. The club at Mar-a-Lago was closed. Agents alerted one of Trumps lawyers in advance of the search. And before the search, the FBI communicated with the Secret Service to make sure we could get into Mar-a-Lago with no issues, according to the testimony of former Assistant FBI Director Steven DAntuono. It wasnt a show of force, he said. I was adamant about that, and that was something we all agreed on.
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