The FBI has definitively said it's because he was just trying to preserve mementos, not trying to sell state secrets to the Saudis or something like that. I actually suspect now that what the Biden administration is trying to do is keep Trump in the news. They want him to run. They want to. It's the exact, it's the exact same thing. Remember the 50 million that went into Republican primaries to support the election denier candidate turns out that was a successful strategy for them as much as I hate to admit it. So I think it was completely hypocritical and sort of Machiavellian, but it worked.

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