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It remains to be seen whether Donald Trump<\/strong> will be indicted by the Justice Department for taking<\/a> top secret documents with him to Mar-a-Lago and refusing to give them back, or if he\u2019ll continue to get away with what seems to be a very serious crime<\/a>. One thing the \u201cyes, he will be indicted\u201d column has going for it? The fact that the former president spent the weekend appearing to confess to said crimes.<\/p>\n On Sunday, at a rally in Miami, the ex-president ranted to the crowd that the FBI \u201cviolated\u201d\u00a0his \u201cFourth Amendment rights\u201d when it raided Mar-a-Lago last August, complaining that no other former president has had his for-profit club and private residence searched. He added: \u201cPresidents leave, they take things, they take documents, they take things, they read them. Nobody else has ever gone through this.\u201d<\/p>\n This content can also be viewed on the site it originates<\/a> from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In fact, despite Trump\u2019s repeated insistence to the contrary, no other American president<\/a> has ever taken presidential documents\u2014which are the property of the US government\u2014to their home and refused to give them back despite being ordered to do so on numerous occasions. Which makes Trump\u2019s \u201ceverybody does it\u201d line not only BS but, according to legal experts, potential evidence to be used against him in court.<\/p>\n \u201cHere\u2019s Trump apparently admitting to illegally taking top secret documents when he left the White House,\u201d Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, the government watchdog group, wrote<\/a> on Twitter. \u201cEverybody drink when he says something self-incriminating,\u201d tweeted<\/a> attorney George Conway,<\/strong> who also wrote<\/a> that Trump was handing \u201cadmissible evidence\u201d to prosecutors.<\/p>\n After the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago in August, Trump claimed<\/a> that Barack Obama<\/strong> had absconded with \u201c33 million pages\u201d of presidential documents, many of them classified\u2014a lie that the National Archives itself debunked<\/a>. Last month, Trump also suggested<\/a> at a rally that George H.W. Bush, who is no longer alive, should be prosecuted for hiding classified documents in a \u201cbowling-alley-slash-Chinese-restaurant,\u201d which also never happened.<\/p>\n As The Hill noted<\/a> on Monday, congressional Republicans have said that they will go nuclear if the Justice Department indicts Trump, which some believe<\/a> could happen in the next several\u00a0months. Speaking to the outlet, Ted Cruz,<\/strong> a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, warned, \u201cIf Biden treats the Department of Justice as partisan storm troopers, then Congress is justified in using whatever tools Congress has to stop that abuse of power.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\nTwitter content<\/h4>\n