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Behind the Lines

Grabbed

Donald Trump yells, 'This is a violation! You can't just barge in and grab my private stuff without my consent!' A woman FBI agent carrying a box of Trump's 'stuff' says, 'I'm sure that's what all the ladies say to you.'

Chris Downes
10 August 2022

On 8 August FBI agents raided Donald Trump’s luxury estate Mar-a-Lago and removed 33 boxes of files. The former president had been storing official documents, which he claimed were ‘all unclassified’, from his time in the White House. Chris Downes compares the removal of documents from Mar-a-Lago to Trump’s admitted habit of ‘grabbing’ or kissing women without waiting for their consent. 

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