Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government by Katherine Doyle, White House Reporter
The search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate is prompting speculation about what drove federal authorities to use unprecedented tactics against a former president whose rocky relationship with the Department of Justice and FBI dates back to before he took office.
Trump has equated the search of his property to Watergate and claims Democrats have weaponized the “justice system” against him. But with the search warrant under seal, much is still unknown about the nature of the investigation.
“It’s never happened, and it never would happen if it weren’t Trump,” constitutional rights attorney Alan Dershowitz told the Washington Examiner. Dershowitz charged that “of course” the raid was politically motivated, equating it to the government’s pursuit of a Chicago mobster on federal income tax evasion or the tactics waged by Joseph Stalin’s longest-serving secret police chief…
