Within a few hours of the FBI’s Monday raid on former president Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, leading Republicans made very clear where they stand. In an effort by federal law enforcement to investigate and possibly prosecute the former president, some of the party’s most prominent elected officials would side with Trump against the rule of law, against any sort of deference to the FBI, Attorney General, or Department of Justice, and quite possibly against holding him legally accountable at all.
Hence my gloomy tweet from Monday night aimed at all the giddy Democrats in my feed: “None of you has the slightest clue how bad this is gonna get.”
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