Suddenly there is an election campaign, carried out with full force. All schedules are waste. On Tuesday evening, Donald Trump invited twelve close confidants to dinner at his golf club residence in Bedminster, New Jersey. There was only one issue – the previous day’s raid on the ex-president’s home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
The outrage at the action had long since turned to anger. There was talk of a “nuclear bomb” thrown by the Ministry of Justice. From a process that is only known from “Marxist dictatorships in the third world”. From a “politically motivated maneuver”.
The spectacular house search at Trump’s house has brought the Republicans together, no doubt. One condemnation quote follows the other. Senators rumored to have presidential ambitions of their own join the chorus of angry people, as does Mike Pence, the former vice president who has distanced himself from Trump since the Capitol storm.
Will Trump ultimately benefit from “pity voting”?
The prediction that Trump will now more than ever announce his candidacy for the presidency is also unanimous. A 99 percent probability has become a hundred percent. He should do so sooner rather than later, his confidants advised at dinner at Bedminster. Trump was “fired up and ready,” said one participant, not asking if, but when.
In English there is the term “pity voting”. When the voter feels that a politician is being treated unfairly, sympathy can turn into solidarity, solidarity and voting. Trump had already prepared the ground for this immediately after the raid in Mar-a-Lago.
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He sees himself persecuted and defamed by strong powers anyway, by a “deep state”, the “lying press”, the “elite”. Now the public prosecutor’s office, the Ministry of Justice and the federal police have been added.
Biden can hardly do anything about Trump’s allegations
“We are no better than a third world country, a banana republic,” Trump wrote on the social network he founded, Truth Social, and complained about a “coordinated attack.” He accuses his rival Joe Biden of knowing about the action and orchestrating it.
The wild reproaches also thrive so well because the attacked can hardly defend themselves. Biden denies being involved in any way. His spokeswoman said he respected the independence of the judiciary.
The Justice Department is silent on the backgrounds, as is the Federal Police FBI. Reference is made to “ongoing investigations” about which nothing should be made public, it was only known that a “large group” of FBI agents had been involved in the search. For the time being, there is little to counter the insults from the Republicans.
A house search like the one in Mar-a-Lago can only be ordered by an independent judge who is convinced of criminally relevant factors. Yet in the overheated political mood, not a single Republican has publicly expressed concern that Trump’s crime could be proven.
The pressure is growing
It is said to be about documents that the ex-president is said to have taken illegally from the White House after his term in office. Some of it is said to be of national security importance.
Last but not least, Trump himself could provide clarification by publishing the contents of the search warrant. But he doesn’t, and will know why.
Meanwhile, the pressure on him continues to mount. On Tuesday, an appeals court ruled that Trump must make his tax records available to a House committee.
So far, he has refused to disclose details of his assets and activities of his family business. The raid and the reactions of the Republicans show once again that everything in his party revolves around Trump. Rush and drama fuel him.
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