Was Mar-a-Lago an own goal?

While my American friends were mostly silent on the search and seizure of classified files retrieved from former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, my European friends were scandalized. In late August, many in Europe voiced to me the certainty that this would be Trump’s undoing. My answer was that I thought that the Justice Department and the FBI acted in a way that would surely backfire against them—that they were striking the ball into their own net.