Two top lawyers in Donald Trump’s White House have been interviewed by the FBI in relation to the ongoing investigation into the storage of classified documents at the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
Trump claimed Monday the passports had been stolen. “This is an assault on a political opponent at a level never seen before in our Country,” he said in a post on Truth Social."There's no room for error,"Attorney General Garland's stature shrinks as he doggedly pursues Trump
But media attorneys pushed back against federal prosecutors claims that the entire document should be kept from the public.News organizations have already reported many details about key information prosecutors and FBI agents gathered that led to last week’s search of Mar-a-Lago, media attorneys said.
Bruce Udolf said that since the search warrant did not explicitly say the FBI was looking for the former president’s passports, they may not have been meaning to take it. Instead, “it sounds like they were mainly looking to retrieve classified documents,” he said. U.S. Magistrate Bruce Reinhart scheduled a hearing at 1 p.m. Thursday, when a consortium of media organizations are expected to argue for the release of the document.Even before the FBI executed a search warrant on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property, the ex-president's supporters on the far-right, who had spent a year after the Jan. 6 insurrection quietly stewing, began ramping up threats.
The early- to mid-1990s saw violence and angry rhetoric directed at the federal government following two tragic events: the botched raid of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, and a standoff and shooting between federal agents and the Weaver family at Ruby Ridge in Idaho. The two events, which still inspire domestic extremists today, helped fuel an anti-government movement that culminated in the bombing of the Alfred P.
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