The New York Times reports:
In the minutes and hours after the F.B.I.’s search of former President Donald J. Trump’s residence in Florida this month, his supporters did not hesitate to denounce what they saw as a blatant abuse of power and outrageous politicization of the Justice Department.
But with the release of a redacted affidavit detailing the justification for the search, the former president’s allies were largely silent, a potentially telling reaction with ramifications for his political future.
“I would just caution folks not to draw too many conclusions,” Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia, a Republican, said on Fox News. It was a starkly different admonition from his earlier condemnations of what he said were “politically motivated actions.”
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After the FBI descended in Mar-a-Lago earlier this month it was Fury Road among elected Republicans. Today, when we saw some (not all) of the justification, it was crickets. Could it be that the GOP really is tiring of the Trump show? https://t.co/vP3dK04y2g
— Jonathan Weisman (@jonathanweisman) August 26, 2022