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A legal commentator described the FBI’s execution of a search warrant at the home of former United States President Donald Trump as “astonishing and unprecedented.”

A view of former US President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home after Trump said that FBI agents raided it, in Palm Beach, Florida, US August 9, 2022. REUTERS/Marco BelloA view of former US President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home after Trump said that FBI agents raided it, in Palm Beach, Florida, US August 9, 2022. REUTERS/Marco Bello

Trump did not disclose why the raid took place and the Justice Department does not comment on ongoing investigations but widespread reporting points to this being part of an investigation into his handling of presidential documents that might have been illegally removed from the White House to his private residence – which is a federal crime in terms of the Presidential Records Act.

“It’s astonishing. It’s really astonishing. But it is also unprecedented. And it is. It is astonishing because it is unprecedented. But it is inevitable almost if one thinks about the various inquiries being made about the president and particularly the presidential records. So I think the fact that the FBI has gone into the President’s Florida home suggests that they have, you know, clear evidence that a crime may have been committed, and that they in doing the search, they will find something.

“Two branches of government were involved in the search. So the executive through the Justice Department and the Attorney General signing off on this, Merrick Garland clearly, you know, signed off on this. So do you have the executive as well as the judiciary, and the FBI would have needed to go to a judge to persuade the judge that it is compelling that they go and do a search. They will also have very specific pieces of evidence that they needed to judge to grant the warrant.

 

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