The registration of Trump sharpens the division in the US – La Vanguardia

The shock capacity that has been installed in the United States since the political landing of Donald Trump has no limits. To infinity and beyond. When anyone would think that the shock capacity had been exhausted after several years of going from tweet to tweet, from scare to scare, with the conclusion of an attempted coup (January 6, 2021), from the big lie that the November 2020 elections were stolen from him – it is still time for proof to be found – the former president shocked the country again on Monday night. He sent a message in which he broke the scoop that the FBI had searched his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Palm Beach, Florida. This unprecedented situation, and a clear sign that the investigations are intensifying, was motivated in principle by the search for classified documents that were taken from the White House. The agents seized “sensitive material” in the operation, it was specified. Read also Francesc Peirón The unimaginable had happened. Trump denied the biggest and became the victim. He maintained that the Radical Democrats only want him to not be a candidate again. However, the result of this action may be the opposite and the closing of ranks around him may cause him to anticipate his official announcement that he will run for president. “We’ll know more, but this is the best day in a long time for Trump chasing his nomination in 2024,” said Rick Lowry, editor of the conservative National Review. Republicans demand that an investigation be opened to the Department of Justice “Another day in paradise, a strange day,” Trump said on Monday night. “We will not give in,” he proclaimed in a campaign-style video he posted Tuesday. His team used the registry to raise funds. The chorus of Republicans (notably absent, like Sen. Mitch McConnell and his ilk) swarmed to their leader’s defense, autocrat-style. They argued that an “armed politicization” had been carried out and, without any interest in the investigations, denounced that this was the result of the sewers of the State. They demanded that an investigation be opened by the Department of Justice. Christopher Wray, director of the FBI, was appointed by Trump. Also read La Vanguardia Mike Pence, the former vice president who saved the electoral result and whom the trumpists wanted to hang that day in January, even closed ranks. Pence insisted on partisan motivation. “This undermines confidence in our justice system, and urge Attorney General Merrick Garland to immediately explain to Americans why this action by the FBI is taking place,” he said. An aerial image taken in January 2018 of Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach (Florida), on the shores of the Atlantic Joe Raedle In the reply, Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi did not go into details, although she clarified that “we believe in the empire of the law”. Others of her colleagues pointed out that the president has a solemn obligation to protect national security and that, in the event that Trump put it at risk, how he handled that information must be investigated. This is an unprecedented police action. Historians do not recall such an initiative in the home of a former US president. No one is above the law, they recalled, least of all once out of office. There are voices that say that if the FBI was only looking for classified papers, this will give Trump the presidency. If that entry occurred, everything indicates that it was because of the documents. But without ruling out other lines linked to January 6, this means that prosecutors had to provide evidence in court and a federal judge granted the order. Nobody believes that these prosecutors acted without the approval of Garland, head of justice. The White House claimed that Biden had no prior knowledge and that he found out through the media. “If the entry into his residence is only to find classified documents that he took from the White House – indicated a legal expert quoted by Politico -, Trump will be re-elected president in 2024 and it will be the biggest police error in history.” But there was also an outburst of Democratic enthusiasm on Twitter after Mark Elias, an election lawyer for the Progressive Party, argued that any penalty for violating the statute on improper handling of government records disqualifies one from holding an official position in the US. reduced the euphoria, because it was recalled that in 2016, when Republicans, including Trump, considered it a serious crime that rival Hillary Clinton had revealed secrets with her e-mails on a private server, several experts indicated the constitutional right of the candidate to continue. Also read Fernando García A forthcoming book states that the former president wanted loyal generals like those of HitlerTrump had a habit in the White House of destroying official material destined for the archives. His habits included taking those classified papers that he shredded in his bedroom or flushed down the toilet. The National Archives recovered fifteen boxes that were at Mar-a-Lago in February. As material continued to be missing, they complained to the Department of Justice. Last June, the FBI visited the room in the Florida mansion where there were more documents, but the return order was not executed. Although Trump said that they were negotiating – he attended some conversation – the investigators thought that there were no guarantees of its preservation, which precipitated the entry and search. The former president lamented that “they have even opened my safe” and added that something like this, “typical of third world countries”, had never happened to a president of the United States. His son Eric, who informed him of the police entry (his father was in New York), described the operation as typical of “a banana republic.” David Graham answered from The Atlantic. “In a true banana republic,” he wrote, “he could expect to live with impunity as long as he could outwit his opponents … He often presented himself as some kind of warlord.” And Graham stressed that, in a forthcoming book, Trump complained to his generals that they were not loyal like Hitler’s. Mar-a-Lago or the mansion that served as its owner’s political school The surroundings of Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s mansion in Palm Beach (Florida) registered on Monday by the FBI, yesterday became a scene in the one that expressed the division that marks the United States. There were fans of the former president who saw in what happened a sign of political persecution, and others, opponents who asked that he be locked up in jail. Mar-a-Lago is, for many, more than a mansion and more than a private club. They say it represents the political school in which Donald Trump took the lessons that led him to the presidency. This is the thesis of the book that Laurence Leamer published in 2019, Mar-a-Lago, inside the gates of power at Donald’s Trump presidential palace. According to Leamer, Palm Beach was Trump’s training ground. The author bought the house on the island of Florida in 1994, the year in which the former president turned his farm into a club that changed the traditions of the locals with old money and little desire to venture into the unknown. From the outset, the ruling class despised him. They saw it as the capital expression of vulgarity. And he replied in a way that is now well known: attacking all those who do not follow his game, regardless of social pedigree. “He focused his attack on what he considered to be the corrupt establishment in Palm Beach and, in doing so, he learned the techniques
that he used in the race for the White House and to become president of the United States,” Leamer explained in an interview when his book came out. Described more as a Miami Beach type person, Trump was fed up with New York’s winter chill and decided to find something somewhere warmer. Taking a tour of Palm Beach in a limousine with Ivana, his recently deceased first wife, Trump asked the driver if there was anything for sale in the area. “The best around here is Mar-a-Lago,” the driver replied. That mansion was built by the rich cereal businesswoman Marjorie Merriweather Post between 1923 and 1926: almost 6,000 square meters and 126 rooms, thirty for the service. Mrs. Post died in 1973, and the mansion, although used for some parties, was falling into disrepair. Trump saw the opportunity, bought it for a meager ten million dollars in the 1980s, and carried out a meticulous restoration. Today it is historical heritage. Since he was not accepted at high-end parties, Trump threw his own, with famous guests and pretty girls. He was the king of the new rich.