Loyalty. This is the keyword for Donald Trump. But, as president of the United States, he made it very clear to "his servants of him" that that loyalty was not to the country or the Constitution, but to the cult of his figure.
This forged a world of mistrust and paranoia, which emerges again with the FBI's search last Monday at his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, in search of secret documents that he supposedly took from Washington.
The bad guys in the movie for Trumpism – the Department of Justice, its head, Merrick Garland, and the FBI – took this unprecedented action on suspicion that the former president was lying about the material he was still hiding in his mansion.
So, to motivate an intervention of this depth, there was some disloyal insider who reported it. This mole would have confirmed the two key issues, that the former president falsified his information regarding what he treasured and the room where those papers were found.
Faced with political pressure, Garland appeared this Thursday to assume "personal responsibility" for requesting the order from a federal judge (authorized after seeing the evidence) and affirming that "the department did not make this decision lightly." However, once Trump started the disinformation fan without going into the content of the order, its motives and the material sought, although he has a copy, Garland reported that he has requested the Florida Southern District Court to Make this documentation public.
The petition reads this: "The public's clear and powerful interest in understanding what happened in these circumstances weighs heavily in favor of dissemination." This does not mean that it will be immediate. Trump can object by appealing “to privacy”, which makes it easier for theories to spread that the agents “planted” indictments against him.
The FBI's raid came after agents went to Mar-a-Lago last June for a grand jury subpoena. There were a number of documents in that room, apart from the return of 15 boxes agreed with the National Archives earlier this year.
The visit took place on June 3. According to CNN, they recovered some of those documents that day. Another contact between the department and Trump's lawyers was established on June 8 to preserve the rest. The trust was broken when an insider confessed that they didn't trust Trump. "Someone familiar with the papers told investigators that there were more classified documents in the private club," The Wall Street Journal revealed. The authorities believe that in those papers, at least 12 other boxes, there are national security implications.
The agents went to that residence this week with a warrant signed by federal judge Bruce Reinhart, now the target of threats from the extreme right, in line with the warmongering reaction caused by Trump's incendiary rhetoric in which he is the victim. .
In this atmosphere, which analysts compare to the one that led to the assault on the Capitol, the alarms went off this Thursday when a man tried to access the FBI headquarters in Cincinnati (Ohio), apparently armed with a nail gun and an AR semi-automatic rifle. -fifteen.
They detected him while trying to get past the detection systems in the visitors' area. The individual, dressed in a bulletproof vest, fled. This led to a road chase. On two occasions there was an exchange of fire. The police managed to surround him and he died in the shootout with the agents.
Although the reasons for this incident were unknown, it was inevitable to think of a reaction to the conspiracy encouraged by Trump that he suffers a collective persecution in the face of the various legal problems that lie in wait for him in politics and in business. Among these, in addition to the possible incitement to the failed coup of January 6, 2021, is the civil case that on Wednesday led him to refuse to answer 440 of the New York Attorney General, Letitia James, who investigates possible fraud. of your organization to banks and the treasury.
“In the face of baseless attacks on the professionalism of the FBI and Department of Justice, I will not remain silent when their integrity is unfairly attacked. They are dedicated and patriotic public servants,” Garland stressed. “Every day – she added – they protect citizens from violent crime, terrorism and other dangers. They do it with personal sacrifice and personal risk.”
