Facing mounting public pressure to address last week’s FBI raid of her home, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao took a defiant tone at a news conference Monday, saying she is not  the target of the investigation and questioning its timing with the campaign to have her recalled. Reading from a prepared 10-minute statement at City Hall, Thao said in a voice shaking with emotion, “This wouldn’t have gone down the way it did if I was rich.” She said a handful of billionaires from San Francisco and Piedmont are “hellbent on running me out of office.” She asked why the warrant was executed shortly after a campaign to oust her from office got enough signatures to put a recall on the November ballot. The mayor called the timing of the raid, “troubling,” adding, “We should all be concerned.” And she claimed Fox News and Breitbart “fanned the flames.” Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Thao, whose bio states that she overcame poverty and domestic …