As much of the nation continues to view the FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago as a dubious development in a longstanding federal bias against the former President, Donald Trump himself has a stern and dominating message for the Department of Justice.
Trump, you see, is still the de facto leader of the Republican Party, and undoubtedly their presumptive candidate for 2024. His sway over the MAGA Movement makes him a formidable political force, and he alone can prevent any further trouble and division in their eyes.
This puts the DOJ at his mercy, and Trump reiterated this point during a recent interview with Fox News.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital on Monday morning, his first since the raid, Trump said he had his representatives reach out to the Justice Department to offer to help amid outrage over the FBI’s unprecedented raid on his private residence last week, in which agents seized classified records, including some marked as top secret. Trump is disputing the classification of those records, saying the records have been declassified.
“The country is in a very dangerous position. There is tremendous anger, like I’ve never seen before, over all of the scams, and this new one — years of scams and witch hunts, and now this,” Trump said.
“If there is anything we can do to help, I, and my people, would certainly be willing to do that,” Trump said.
“There has never been a time like this where law enforcement has been used to break into the house of a former president of the United States, and there is tremendous anger in the country — at a level that has never been seen before, other than during very perilous times,” Trump said.
And then, bluntly:
Trump told Fox News that his team “has not heard yet” from the Justice Department on whether they will accept his offer for help.
“I think they would want the same thing — I’ve never seen anything like this,” Trump said. “It is a very dangerous time for our country.”
He added: “I will do whatever I can to help the country.”
If the DOJ refuses his help, then it will say a lot more about the federal government than it will about Donald Trump.
