Have you noticed that Trump hasn’t produced a copy of the search warrant yet for the media? The officers must leave a copy of the warrant, which would have the affidavit attached. The person searched must have the ability to take the warrant and show it to an attorney. If the FBI was just on a witch hunt, the warrant and supporting affidavit would be terrible. It would be vague. It would be a nothing burger. It would be Trump’s strongest protection, proving that this is all about persecuting him.

He hasn’t produced it. And that’s because, more likely than not, it has some damned serious accusations having to do with national security within it. Trump knows he’s in trouble, and, depending on what the FBI found, Trump could be indicted today – for all we know, sometime this week, this month. The FBI would be better off moving fast than slow, trying to do as much as possible all at once so that each new revelation doesn’t increase the anger factor on a logarithmic scale. The MAGAs are already furious. If the FBI has the goods, arrest Trump now.

Trump seems to know this is a possibility and thus, according to Rolling Stone, is on the hunt for a “killer,” which is also indicative that he knows he’s in major trouble.

Behind closed doors this summer, Donald Trump and his advisers have been narrowing the shortlist of criminal defense attorneys he’d need to take on the Justice Department. The former president has had preliminary conversations with Tim Parlatore, a lawyer best known for successfully representing an accused war criminal, about possible legal strategies should the department escalate its probe or hit Trump with charges, two people with knowledge of the matter and a third source briefed on it tell Rolling Stone.

Trump’s conversations with Parlatore and other newly retained lawyers are part of his broader push to assemble yet another new legal team, both for his current legal woes and for any future ones coming from the FBI and Biden-era DOJ. Throughout the summer, Trump has been quizzing confidants on what they think of specific criminal defense lawyers, throwing out a number of names both big and obscure. In other words, as one Trump advisor describes it, the ex-president is conducting the “Apprentice: Avoid-Federal-Prison Edition.”

It sounds like he has his team of criminal lawyers prepared for January 6th, but he is now worried about being indicted for the documents in Mar-a-Lago:

Monday’s FBI raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago will likely intensify that search, as the Justice Department broadens and accelerates its investigations into Trump, his team and close associates, and their efforts to subvert the 2020 presidential election. The federal search of the twice-impeached leader of the GOP’s Florida estate, however, appears connected to an investigation into Trump’s retention of classified materials and sensitive presidential documents.

What is amazing is that the raid on Mar-a-Lago will do nothing but help Trump raise money. He is going to need it.

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[email protected], @JasonMiciak, with Nicole Hickman