Mar-a-Lago: Trump investigated under Espionage Act, says warrant - BBC News
FBI agents reportedly took around 20 boxes of items, including top secret files, from Mar-a-Lago.
It’s been a week for the obliteration of precedents.

First the revelation that a former president’s home had been searched by the FBI, made public by Donald Trump himself.

That brought three days of him and his supporters shaping that ostensibly bad news narrative into familiar themes – namely that the “political witch-hunt” was continuing and that the state was still out to get him.

Then, on Thursday the Department of Justice decided it had had enough of being traduced – doing something they do not do and requesting the details of what they were looking for and what they found be published.

And here we are with the most top secret of classified documents being hauled away from a private, beachfront golf club and the FBI citing potential crimes involving the Espionage Act and obstruction of justice.

You might think this would put anyone on the back foot, but for the former president and his backers these are as much opportunities as they are jeopardies.

They burnish his self-described position as an outsider and reinvigorate his supporters' desire for a second Trump term in which a “third world country” - to quote President Trump - can be made great again.

This isn’t over by a long chalk.