Trump Cultists Flood National Archives With Threats

The Washington Post reports:

In the nearly three weeks since the FBI searched former president Donald Trump’s Florida home to recover classified documents, the National Archives and Records Administration has become the target of a rash of threats and vitriol, according to people familiar with the situation. Civil servants tasked by law with preserving and securing the U.S. government’s records were rattled.

Following the Aug. 8 FBI search, Trump and his allies unleashed a torrent of attacks on one of the most apolitical arms of the federal bureaucracy. “They could have had it anytime they wanted — and that includes LONG ago,” Trump wrote Aug. 12 on his Truth Social website. “ALL THEY HAD TO DO IS ASK. The bigger problem is, what are they going to do with the 33 million pages of documents, many of which are classified, that President Obama took to Chicago?”

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In the nearly three weeks since the FBI searched Donald Trump’s Florida home, the National Archives and Records Administration has become the target of a rash of threats and vitriol, according to people familiar with the situation. https://t.co/M3Zlj554pf

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 27, 2022