Everything to do with Donald Trump must be not only outrageous, but also ridiculous. If the reporting thus far on the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago is to be believed — always a very big if in any Trump-related story that leans heavily on anonymous sources — the Justice Department has really stepped into a mess that it didn’t think through, while Trump is reacting giddily to being thrown in the briar patch.
According to William Arkin of Newsweek, “two senior government officials” with “direct knowledge of the FBI’s deliberations” told him that the FBI’s decision to search Trump’s home, planned in “the FBI Miami Field Office and Washington headquarters,” was “based largely on information from an FBI confidential human source, one who was able to identify what classified documents former President Trump was still hiding and even the location of those documents.” If Arkin’s sources are as described, one is “a senior Justice Department official who is a 30-year veteran of the FBI,” and the other is “a senior intelligence official who was briefed on the investigation and the operation.” These are presumably veteran civil servants, but those descriptions don’t preclude the possibility that they are current political appointees. What is it that those sources want known?
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