Nice Democracy You’ve Got Here. Shame If Something Happened to It.
The line between imagination and delusion is thin, as Donald Trump’s initial reaction to an FBI search at Mar-a-Lago in August demonstrated. In the first days afterward, the former president saw the search as a political gift, not a blow: a chance to rally his base, put would-be challengers like Ron DeSantis in their place, and reconsolidate his eroding position as the leader of the Republican Party.
Over time, it has become clear that the FBI finding reams of top-secret documents at his club is not, in fact, a boon to a lawyer aware of Trump’s tendency to stiff people who provide services. Nearly every Trump adviser you’ve ever heard of, plus a few you haven’t, has been by the Justice Department in an investigation into election subversion, and the House committee looking into the same matter will return to public hearings later this month. The New York attorney general just a settlement offer in an investigation into Trump’s business.
