Thu Aug 11, 2022 – 2:29 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – The Federal Bureau of Investigation raid this week on former President Donald Trump’s Florida home is likely meant to prevent Trump from running for president in 2024, a former lawyer for the Trump administration claimed Wednesday.
On Monday, the FBI conducted a search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, ostensibly over Trump’s possession of classified documents from his presidency.
Conservatives and Republicans suspect that reason is a pretext to persecute the ex-president for political reasons, citing the lighter treatment various Democrat officials (such as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former FBI Director James Comey, and former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger) received for mishandling classified materials, despite lacking Trump’s former authority as President of the United States to declassify material.
The Epoch Times reports that former Trump Department of Justice official Jeffrey Clark said it “defies rational explanation to think that this is really something that is not explainable by pure politics,” in light of the aforementioned Democrat cases “that had been totally swept under the rug.”
One particular point of dispute has been whether Trump could shed light on the case by releasing a copy of
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