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Commentary: The Mar-a-Lago search looks more like it could provide a way to hold Trump accountable

Former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

From its inception as a mission to retrieve documents endangering national security, the search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound has developed into the sharpest of the several daggers at the former president’s throat.

That’s not simply because the evidence linking Trump to the potential crimes specified in the warrant — removal of public documents, violations of the Espionage Act and obstruction of justice — grows ever stronger, but also because his handling of sensitive government property is a stunning example of the essential Trumpian

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