The Justice Department pushed for an aggressive approach in the search for classified documents at Donald Trump’s home, according to a senior FBI official.
The Justice Department pushed for an aggressive approach in the search for classified documents at Donald Trump’s home, according to a senior FBI official who said the department overruled agents who wanted to try to gain the former president’s cooperation.
It was a different story for Hunter Biden, the current president’s son, when the FBI and IRS agents wanted to execute a search for documents they felt would build their tax evasion case. According to testimony by Gary Shapley, a senior IRS agent, they were stymied by prosecutors who not only told them to hold off, but tipped off Mr. Biden’s lawyers to the agents’ interest.
The juxtaposition of the two approaches fueled Republicans’ sense that the government machinery is treating one of the two top presidential candidates differently than the other. Mr. Garland said each search — and the decision to go in heavy or light — must be considered on its own facts. As for the former president, he now faces 40 federal charges stemming from the classified documents and his interactions with the government over their return.
He said there wasn’t anything illegal or against policy in the heavy-handed approach, but he said he thought there was “a good likelihood that we could have got a consent.”“I think the bureau — we were left holding the bag again, right, and we cut ourselves,” Mr. D’Antuono said.Both IRS and FBI agents assigned to the Hunter Biden Investigation complained that things were taking too long.
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