On August 8, 2022, a team of federal agents conducted a lawful search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. At the time, we didn’t know the full extent of Donald Trump’s obstruction of efforts by the DOJ to retrieve classified documents from him. But Trump’s response to the raid was no surprise: He claimed he was a victim. Trump’s victim strategy had enjoyed ringing success in deep-red states such as Wyoming. And at least one violent assault on an FBI field office had ensued. But now he weaponized that strategy by working to publicly disclose a number of the FBI agents who had
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