In May and June, the National Archives listed other documents they believed Trump still had. In June, archives officials went to Mar-a-Lago and got many more boxes of classified material. But archive officials had information that Trump still had more top-secret documents. That led to the court-approved FBI search in August that yielded about 100 documents, some highly classified, and designated with wide, bold yellow and rust-red borders on the cover pages.
We all saw those cover pages in that FBI’s evidence photo taken at the time. We also remember how Republican political leaders raced to issue press releases condemning the FBI search as a Gestapo-like raid without waiting to learn that it was nothing of the sort. Indeed, the Justice Department requested, and the court granted, permission to search a former president’s home only after receiving information that Trump had those classified documents that he had denied having — but indeed had, after all.
And now we all know one thing more: Trump, who likes to portray himself as the ultimate victim, now knows that we all know exactly who to blame. America’s 45th president was victimized by that guy he sees in his Mar-a-Lago mirror — and no one else.
So, given what you now know, what do you think the FBI and Justice Department should do now? Pursue the investigation or just drop it?
Well, we know from a knowledgeable source what Trump thinks they should do about it. In 2016, just 11 days before Election Day, FBI Director James Comey bizarrely announced he was reopening a new FBI investigation into Trump’s presidential opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for her inexplicable use of emails for government business, a potential security risk. It gave the FBI a new No. 1 fan (and gave that fan a new job).
