Trump in Exile by Meridith McGraw

Author:Meridith McGraw [McGraw, Meridith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, American Government, Executive Branch, Corruption & Misconduct, Biography & Autobiography, Presidents & Heads of State
ISBN: 9780593729632
Google: CUADEQAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0593729633
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2024-08-06T00:00:00+00:00

As the sun set in Palm Beach, local police positioned themselves outside Mar-a-Lago in front of the club entrance, bathing the outside of the mansion in a dramatic crime scene glow with flashing blue and red lights. Trump sympathizers set up camp along Southern Boulevard to protest, and news anchors lined up along the water across from the club to give minute-by-minute updates.

That night Trump made clear he wanted his team—anyone—on TV immediately to defend him. Not all of the interviews were particularly effective. Bobb and Trump’s lawyers stumbled through television appearances that once would have gotten them fired. But Trump, who was typically hypercritical of anyone who went on television to talk about him, notably didn’t mind, according to aides.

Trump allies in the press saw the end of the republic.

Marc Levin called the search “the worst attack on this republic in modern history, period.”

“This is going to absolutely enrage the country, especially the Republican base, a base that is clearly behind the ex-president,” Fox News host Jesse Watters said as news of the search broke. “I think everyone is very emotional about this raid.”

On the air, Dan Bongino called it “some third-world bullshit right here.”

Sean Hannity channeled Trump’s outrage, calling the search “a dark day in history,” and tried to characterize the FBI’s actions as part of a grand conspiracy against Trump associates by the federal government, making comparisons to Hunter Biden. “This would have never happened to a Democrat,” Hannity said.

“Sean, this didn’t come from the little local FBI field office in Palm Beach, Florida. You know who this came from. This came from one place and one building, and that is the White House in Washington, D.C.,” Eric Trump said.

“To have thirty FBI agents—actually more than that—descend on Mar-a-Lago, give absolutely no notice, go through the gates, start ransacking an office, ransacking a closet, they broke into a safe. He didn’t even have anything in the safe,” Eric claimed. “I mean, give me a break. And this is coming from, what, the National Archives?

“My father always kept press clippings, newspaper articles, pictures, notes from us,” he went on. “He had boxes. He moved out of the White House. He’s very collaborative. If you want to search for anything, come right ahead. It was an open-door policy, and all of a sudden thirty agents descend upon Mar-a-Lago?” Trump’s son went on to describe a lawyer who had been working on the documents case as “totally shocked.”

“He goes, ‘I have such an amazing relationship with these people and all of a sudden, on no notice, they send twenty cars and thirty agents?’ ” Eric Trump said.

But for all of their assertions that the lawyers had a great relationship with the National Archives and that Trump had been cooperating, the National Archives had hit a breaking point. They believed Trump was sitting on state secrets that could endanger sources and betray allies. Not only that—the collection of documents they were concerned Trump had was sitting unprotected at a country club, where

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