NEWS ANALYSIS
For Donald Trump, there’s no doubt what the FBI was doing when agents made their foray into the former president’s home this week: it was a raid.
He said so in his social media posts. He said so in his fundraising emails.
Some major news organizations, however, have been reluctant to adopt his terminology and instead settled for more anodyne phrases like “executed a search.”
MSNBC has been leading the pack, with several contributors and guests scolding the use of the term.
“I know Donald Trump is saying this is a raid, but that’s a gross exaggeration,” Dave Aronberg, who serves as state attorney in Palm Beach County, Florida, told the network.