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THE FACT THAT my friend, whom I have kown for forty years to be itelligent, still supports tTrumptells me that most probably most of Trump's supporters are still with him. and, most likely, like my friend, they are dismissing the FBI raid on Trump's mansion as merely more hatred against Trump, deeply, deeply imbedded within the government, the government which, my friend is convinced, is in collussion with the media to promote the progressive point of view, and engaged in all manner of nefarious plots to damage or destroty their beloved Trump. The more I listened, the more shocked an horrified I was, and at one point, I remarked to him: "sometimes I think you and I are living in different universes". And indeed I think that about the American right wing generally. How anyone could possible twist Trump's latest criminal behavior and law enforcement's perfect reposne to it into a sordid tale of not only a corrupt FBI, but an even more corrupt federal governemnt being used by Democrats to harm Trump alone - is quite beyond me. My friend the Trump lover quite naturally and predictably changed the subject, and started talking about Joe and Hunter Biden and a laptop computer and the BFI's cover up to help the Biden's - oh yes, and when Hillary Clinton left the White House, she took with her many valuables which belonged to the White House - why was she never prosecuted!? Deny, obfuscate, change the subject. There is one thing my friend, and all of Trump's supporters are certain about - there must be more to this story than the former president simply making off with government documents as he left office, and his doing that being illegal and criminal, indictable. There has got to mt be more, no matter how uncertain of what it is. The former president must have had a perfectly good reason to have done that, whatever it may be. There are a few cracks in my buddy's armor. He acknowledges as how the former president has said some pretty crazy things. That's a start, if nothing else. One thing I know for sure; if teh Justice Department indicts Trump over this Top Secret document thing - and its hard to see how they could avoid indicting him - then the right wing MAGA crazies are gonna go off like a bundle of bottle rockets too close to the grill. If that happens, It'll be awhile before I go visit my old friend again - he'll he hopping mad, and, hell, he's a pretty big dude...