(CNN)Donald Trump’s presidency at times threatened to tear America apart, and the country’s democracy, institutions and equilibrium staggered away from his four-year term barely intact.
A day after the FBI search of his Florida resort, it was as if Trump had never been away, as he reapplied his grip on the national psyche by orchestrating a fierce backlash against the bureau, the Justice Department and the Biden White House, which has said it had no advance warning of the FBI activity.
Trump’s fury on his Truth Social platform, warnings of retaliation by congressional Republicans and threats of violence in pro-Trump posts on social media were enabled by a vacuum of concrete details about the FBI operation.
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