New reporting from The Washington Post details how the DOJ and the FBI came to the decision to search former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence for government documents earlier this year.
A woman talks to Palm Beach police officer in front of former President Donald Trump's house at Mar-A-Lago on August 8, 2022, in Palm Beach, Florida.the the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation came to the decision to search former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence for government documents earlier this year.
The search of the Palm Beach, Florida, property, which took place in August, yielded more than 13,000 government documents that Trump had removed from the White House after his departure from office — including 103 documents that were marked as classified. Since Trump left the White House in January 2021, more than 300 classified documents have been retrieved from Mar-a-Lago by various government agencies.reveals that FBI officials were initially wary about conducting the August search, as it would be an unprecedented action against a former president. The FBI was also concerned about Trump’s presence at Mar-a-Lago and the possibility that officials would have toif he refused to allow them to execute a search warrant on the property.
Those worries were alleviated after it became clear that Trump, who spends less time at Mar-a-Lago in the summer due to the heat, would likely be at one of his properties in New Jersey or New York City while the search was being conducted.
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