The move was unprecedented. On Aug. 8, more than 30 FBI agents - armed with a search warrant issued by a federal magistrate - descended upon Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach, Fla., home of former President Donald Trump. Hours later, they emerged from the sprawling property having seized multiple sets of documents marked top secret. One day later, the conservative political action committee the Lincoln Project released a 60-second video featuring newsreel footage of the search over which a female narrator provokingly asked, "Who was it, Donald? Who gave you up to the feds? Who told them what you kept in a safe in Mar-aLago?" as photos of Trump's wife, Melania, his children, Donald Jr., Ivanka, Eric and Tiffany, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, flashed across the screen.
The message was clear. "The Lincoln Project outright suggests that a family member is the rat," says a source close to the embattled family. "The feds storming Mara-Lago has rocked the Trump family to its core. People outside the family are casting suspicion to get Trump all riled up, and it's working! Of course, deep down Trump knows his family would never betray him, but he seems a little paranoid. Can you blame him? So he's not discounting anything right now, and it's made things very tense within the family."
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