Trump told Fox News he was eager he was to lower the temperature. Hours later, he did the opposite. (via MaddowBlog)
Exactly one week after the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump continues to whine and make stuff up, though yesterday, he raised a new point of contention.on his Twitter-like platform. “In the raid by the FBI of Mar-a-Lago, they stole my three Passports , along with everything else. This is an assault on a political opponent at a level never seen before in our Country.
Let’s instead consider the claim on the merits. The FBI took Trump’s passports? The claim raised a variety of provocative possibilities, including questions surrounding federal investigators’ interest in the former president’s travel history and/or upcoming travel plans. At least at first, it was difficult to know what to make of Trump’s claim, given his strained relationship with reality. Sure, the former presidentthat the FBI had his passports, but all we had to go on was his word, which has no meaningful value.of an email it received yesterday from a Justice Department official, explaining that the FBI had collected the passports, and the bureau was returning them.
And then, of course, there’s the timing: Team Trump received the Justice Department email at 12:49 p.m. eastern, and the former president published his pseudo-tweet about a half-hour later.
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