Trump calls Biden ‘enemy of the state’ following Mar-a-Lago raid
Donald Trump has scored something of a victory in the scandal over the classified documents he took with him to Mar-a-Lago, with a judge granting his request to have a special master vet the seized material for “personal items and documents and potentially privileged material subject to claims of attorney-client and/or executive privilege”.
Mr Trump kicked off the Labor Day holiday on Truth Social with a string of posts raging against the FBI, the Department of Justice, and Hunter Biden on the basis of dubious conspiracy theories. He also again demanded the 2020 election result be overturned.
In this morning’s multi-post rant about the seizure of classified government materials from his home at Mar-a-Lago, he also decried the fact that the “weaponised” FBI has not raided the Bidens and complained that the US is falling apart. ”This is a Country that’s unfair and broken,” he wrote. “We are truly a Nation in Decline!!!”
Members of the 6 January select committee have condemned Mr Trump’s Pennsylvania rally this weekend, at which two guests defending the rioters who stormed the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 – including a convicted neo-Nazi.
What we learned in Pennsylvania about the midterms
The Independent’s Eric Garcia headed to Trump’s rally in Wilkes-Barre and to a Democratic event in Scranton. This is what he’s learned.
Trump’s most unhinged speech yet and what we learned in PA about the midterms
The Independent’s Eric Garcia headed to Trump’s rally in Wilkes-Barre and to a Democratic event in Scranton. This is what he’s learned.
Oliver O’Connell6 September 2022 01:15
Analysis: Donald Trump picked a fight with the National Archives. It may be the end of him
Many years from now, when the history books about the Trump era are written, they may yet note that his downfall came not at the hands of his political rivals, the Deep State, or even the voting public. The end, when it finally came, began when he picked a fight with an archivist.
The archivists of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) are no ordinary librarians, to be sure; they are the keepers of the presidential records — every memo, letter, gift and executive order that passes across a president’s desk. They painstakingly document and store all of those records on behalf of the general public, to whom those items belong.
But few of them could have imagined that they would be thrust into the spotlight in the way they have in recent weeks after their role in the series of events that led to an FBI search of Mar-a-Lago was revealed.
Trump is learning an important lesson the hard way: Don’t mess with librarians
The National Archives is responsible for collecting, cataloguing and storing all federal government records. It takes its job very seriously, reports Richard Hall
Oliver O’Connell6 September 2022 00:15
Trump’s first rally since Mar-a-Lago raid gathers diehard fans
Former president Donald Trump was ostensibly in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to stump for Republican candidates on the state ballot this November.
But stumping for other Republicans took a notable backseat as the former president defiantly defended himself in his first campaign rally since the FBI executed a search warrant at his Mar-a-Lago home, and his most faithful supporters were on hand to show their solidarity with the man they consider the legitimate winner of the 2020 election.
“The Biden administration invaded the home of their chief political opponent, who is absolutely destroying him and everyone else in the polls,” Mr Trump said to a rapturous crowd at the Mohegan Sun Arena, which was met with echoing boos. “They’re trying to silence me and, more importantly, they are trying to silence you.”
Eric Garcia reports on this past weekend’s rally.