or when you re in front of a jury sometimes with trump he s so self reveler tory in these statements, that often this fodder that permits these investigators to understand what he s thinking in doing. if he s listening to these lawyers we might not hear anything else from him tonight. i have to ask you, because i asked frank about the conflation of the fbi with the democratic party. one of the bid for that statement that jumped out to me, is trump calling this a weaponization of the justice system. seems rich, coming from him! trump appointed the current director of the fbi. chris wray, well respected former basketball player from the atlanta, ever since trump put in place after had a problem with the prior directors. nothing on their behalf, more interest to have. like the fbi is not a creature of a political party. in fact, they hold themselves above the political fray. everyone at the agency knows that they re dependability depends on their objectivity.
that s according to the man himself, donald trump, who issued a legacy statement just over an hour, ago condemning an unannounced fbi raid on his florida residence in mar-a-lago. it s coming on the heels of reporting the trump s lawyers are currently in negotiation with the department of justice, stemming from its investigation into trump s in attempted coup. tonight, it looks like federal agents were executing the next steps one of the investigations into the ex president. and whitey is now reporting that this rate is related to classified according to two people familiar with the investigation, appeared to be focused on material that trump had brought with him to mar-a-lago, his private club, and residents, after he left the white house. those boxes contain many pages of caused by, documents according to a person can familiar of contents. the ex president released a statement tonight. quote, these are dark times for
reporting in the new yorker about the former presidents autocratic tendencies and his knee-jerk reaction towards being the victim. how does what we are watching unfold into that pattern? it does quite conveniently in fact because the piece in the new yorker was an excerpt from our new book called the divider it comes at noon next month. it focuses on president trump s relationship with it is generals. and how they tried to politicize the military. that s i think telling because it s also what you see in the statement he issued tonight. to him, the fbi, the military, the justice department, he tried to polish politicize all of them, and he sees them in a political light. if they re going after him he s gonna class them in a political light instead of a except the idea that there might be some sort of legal issue to be dealt with here. and it works. already you see on twitter, all of his supporters and allies saying how this is illegitimate even though they don t have a clue what s in
talk about who they voted for or law around the watercooler. they are just trying to do their job, and if there s evidence of crime and a judge signed off on an affidavit, and you got yourself a search warrant. frank, you and i talked about the work that leads up to this, we talked about the work, once the work that leads up and the days following ahead? we are engaged in conjecture, and i definitely appreciation ken delaney and his admonition that we don t know exactly with this is about it. but whatever case it is about, first and foremost before they leave the property tonight, if they re still there or, not they are going to leave, whoever is in charge, if it s not trump because he s not there, it ll be some caretaker appointed, maybe a lawyer. a local lawyer mid come over trump s request. that person will be handed a receipt. it ll say, here are the things that we took. and maybe trump will waive it
well, alicia this is an unprecedented event so i think we should be careful about what we say. i think it s easier though to ask answer your question. this is another verdict on someone who is very damaged goods and i think republicans want to win back the white house more than in the. so his maga fans will see this this is one more piece of evidence that they need to look for a different standard bearer. i don t know how it will affect 2022. most republicans are trying to use this to reduce turnout. but i think it certainly adds to the very significant historical damage that trump has as a think about a re-run in 20 3:24. i think we ve seen a lot of