Prominent Texas Republicans are decrying the FBI's search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home as political, but legal experts say a search of this caliber would have likely required strong evidence of a serious crime.
FBI raid Monday
Federal agents searched the Florida home of the former president in what Trump described in a statement as a “siege” on his private property. The Justice Department has been mum on the ongoing probe, though a number of national media outletsin connection to an investigation into whether Trump improperly removed classified documents from the White House. In his statement, Trump did not reveal the nature of the investigation, which would have been outlined to him in the search warrant.
“I think that this was signed off at the highest levels of both the Justice Department and the FBI, with full knowledge of how controversial it would be and how much reflexive opposition to it there would be,” said Michael Bromwich, a former federal prosecutor who served as inspector general at the Justice Department from 1994 to 1999. The head of FBI, Christopher Wray, was appointed by Trump in 2017.
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