Trump threatens to sue FBI over Mar-a-Lago search for classified documents, but experts say it won’t go anywhere

Donald Trump’s extremely brief foray into “unity” during his speech at last week’s Republican National Convention is, perhaps unsurprisingly, no longer.

“Somebody please explain to Rep. James Clyburn, not the brightest bulb in the House, that I am beating the Biden/Harris Prosecutors, like Deranged Jack Smith, whose case against me in Florida, ‘the biggest of them all’ according to the Radical Left Lunatics, was just ‘thrown out’ as being Unconstitutional,” the twice-impeached former president posted Monday afternoon on Truth Social. “Now it is my time to sue them for illegally breaking into, and raiding, Mar-a-Lago. All of these Biden/Harris cases against me are a Weaponization of Justice against their Political Opponent, Me — Strictly Third World Country. MAGA2024!”

It is not entirely clear what Trump was specifically reacting to, but in a television appearance earlier in the day, Clyburn said of Biden: “I believe he will go down in history as one of the best and most consequential presidents we’ve ever had.”

When Trump was shot at a Pennsylvania campaign rally on July 13, President Joe Biden quickly denounced the attack as “sick,” expressed gratitude that Trump was safe, and emphasized, “We are not enemies.” Vice-President Kamala Harris, for her part, called the shooting “heinous, horrible, and cowardly,” and said that “violence is never acceptable.”

During his RNC speech a few days later, Trump made brief remarks about coming together as a nation, then quickly reverted to form, lobbing ugly insults at Biden, Harris, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and other Democrats.

Trump’s rage-filled screed on Monday followed nearly a dozen other outlandish posts about Biden and Harris that began Sunday evening, and continued