Ever since FBI agents executed a search warrant on Aug. 8 to obtain White House records from Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump has been trying to paint himself as the victim of “political persecution.”
that the “unprecedented, unnecessary, and unannounced FBI/DOJ Raid” of his Florida estate “was done for political purposes just prior to the Midterm Elections .”Pages are from the government's released, heavily redacted version of the FBI search warrant affidavit for former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.
“Media reports suggest that the department went out of its way to get the cooperation of Trump and his lawyers in the return of the documents,” Daniel Richman, a former federal prosecutor, told Yahoo News. “As the subjects of white collar investigations regularly find, when cooperation is not forthcoming or the government cannot rely on counsel’s representations of compliance, search warrants [will] be sought and obtained.
This kicked off several months of back-and-forth in which the National Archives sought, unsuccessfully, to retrieve the missing documents from the former president.After National Archives officials warned Trump’s team that continued refusal to comply with the Presidential Records Act could result in a referral to the Justice Department or Congress, Trump’s attorneys told the National Archives that they found 12 boxes of documents at Mar-a-Lago.
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