![]() But Viswanatha reports that “he was involved in weeks of discussions with AG MERRICK GARLAND and other senior DOJ and FBI officials” before the raid. FBI under fire: Two big stories from WSJ’s Aruna Viswanatha and WaPo’s Perry Stein, Ellen Nakashima, Hannah Allam and Josh Dawsey document FBI Director CHRISTOPHER WRAY’s perhaps Sisyphean efforts to stay out of the political scrum.įor years, Wray has tried to broaden the agency’s remit, turn down the public temperature and extract it from partisan debates. “The best thing that Trump can probably hope for at the moment is that the search warrant was primarily a mechanism to recover records the government thought it was entitled to and isn’t much of an indication of whether he or anyone else will face criminal charges.” The big picture: “He and his team haven’t settled on a singular approach and appear in the dark about what may come next.” And while the legal team has swung between different strategies, Trump has sometimes publicly insisted on steps his lawyers haven’t actually advocated in writing. In the courtroom: Now that the legal battle is underway following the search, Kyle Cheney, Josh Gerstein and Nick Wu have a look at Trump’s lawyers’ approach. ![]() “His unwillingness to let go of power, including refusing to return government documents collected while he was in office, has led to a potentially damaging, and entirely avoidable, legal battle that threatens to engulf the former president and some of his aides.” Plenty of Trump world fingers are pointing at former chief of staff MARK MEADOWS, who oversaw the transition and told aides that documents would be handled properly.īut ultimately, the story of the documents is also a story of DONALD TRUMP’s routine treatment of his role “as a private business,” they write. How we got here: In the hectic final months of the Trump administration, two dozen boxes of “highly classified” documents and other materials were shipped to Florida instead of to the National Archives - laying the groundwork for the eventual FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, NYT’s Maggie Haberman, Katie Benner and Glenn Thrush report. A spate of new stories this weekend shed new light on how the Trump White House’s actions brought us here - and where the legal and political fallout might head next. GETTING HOT IN THE SUNSHINE STATE - Nearly two weeks after FBI agents descended on Mar-a-Lago to seize boxes of documents, the reverberations from the search are still resounding around the political landscape. ![]() In the hectic final months of the Trump administration, two dozen boxes of “highly classified” documents and other materials were shipped to Mar-a-Lago instead of to the National Archives, per a new report. ![]()
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