On Politico, Jennifer Bendery quoted Trump’s whine about his passports: “In the raid by the FBI of Mar-a-Lago, they stole my three Passports (one expired), along with everything else,” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social. “This is an assault on a political opponent at a level never seen before in our Country. Third World!”

She goes on to report: “It’s not clear why the FBI may have taken his passports or why he apparently has three of them. Trump said one was expired; it’s possible that he has a regular non-expired passport in addition to a second special issuance passport as  a former U.S. president.” (emphasis added)

No, it’s not clear why the FBI took Trump’s passports — however many. But if the Bureau were investigating ordinary criminal activity, they might take care to keep the subject of the investigation from leaving the country, especially if he had considerable assets and property overseas. One can imagine that, if worse came to worst, the subject of the investigation may be facing time in prison. And one can imagine that if it comes to that, the subject of the investigation might consider departing the United States for a foreign country made hospitable by his gift of stolen U.S. government documents.