Trump Critics Say FBI Mar-a-Lago Raid May Have Handed Him GOP Nomination, ‘Potentially the Presidency’

Trump Critics Say FBI Mar-a-Lago Raid May Have Handed Him GOP Nomination, ‘Potentially the Presidency’
Former President Donald Trump greets supporters during a rally in Waukesha, Wisconsin on August 5, 2022. Scott Olson/Getty Images
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The FBI’s raid of the former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate “handed” the 2024 Republican presidential nomination to Trump and prompted moderate Republicans to vote for him, according to Joe Walsh, a former Republican congressman and a critic of Trump.

Trump announced that his Florida property was “under siege” and “occupied by a group of FBI agents” in a statement late on Aug. 8, calling it evidence of “prosecutorial misconduct” and a “weaponization of the Justice System.”