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Why did federal Justice wait until now to raid the residence of former President Donald Trump?

Washington — The unprecedented decision of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI, in English) to execute a search and search warrant in the residence of the former president donald trump it has had repercussions in the federal government, in politics and in the minds of a polarized nation.

While Trump and his allies launch complaints and accusations, other sectors wonder why the Federal Department of Justicean agency that has shown extreme caution under the direction of Merrick Garland, decided to take such a drastic step. According to people with knowledge of the situation, the FBI conducted a search of Trump’s residence in Mar-a-lago as part of an investigation to determine whether he transported to his each classified documents taken from the White House.

The former president confirmed that the agents opened and took the contents of a safe and compared the search and search warrant as “improper conduct by the prosecution.”

The answers to these questions, so far, have been difficult to obtain.

The execution of the order represents a significant escalation of the interest of law enforcement agencies in the activities of the former president, who is already facing investigations linked to his conduct in the final months of his administration.

From comparisons with the Watergate scandal to the investigation carried out by a commission of the Federal House of Representatives about the assault on Capitol On January 6, 2021, Washington, a city accustomed to few or no scandals in the month of August, was hit with speculative and/or accusatory headlines related to the action taken by the FBI.

Has the Department of Justice become politicized? What prompted them to seek a judge’s authorization to search for classified documents now, months after it emerged that Trump had taken boxes of materials when he left the White House after losing the 2020 election?

Garland has been sparse in his expressions despite the claims of Democratic officials impatient to know if the Federal Justice investigated the accusations revealed during the hearings of the Commission that investigates the insurrection of January 6. Republicans have also echoed Trump’s claims that he is the victim of an impeachment.

Garland’s only public expression has been “no one is above the law.”

A federal judge authorized the search and seizure warrant only after FBI agents showed him there was probable cause to break into the residence Trump uses in Florida. The former president was in New York at the time the search and seizure warrant was executed.

Monday’s search intensified the investigation, which has been underway for months, to determine how classified documents ended up inside the boxes found at Mar-a-lago earlier in the year. A second federal grand jury is investigating efforts to reverse the 2020 election. Both cases pose a serious risk to Trump, who has already begun laying the groundwork for a possible presidential bid in the 2024 election.

Trump and his allies framed the raid as a way to weaponize the US justice system, accusing the Democratic Party of orchestrating an effort to prevent him from winning the 2024 election. However, the Joe Biden administration indicated that they had no prior knowledge that the raid would take place. Similarly, the current director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, was appointed by Trump to the post five years ago.

Trump, who revealed the execution of the search and seizure order last Monday, assured that the agents opened the safe in his residence and described the search as a “surprise raid”, while comparing it as an “inappropriate action”. .

Dena Iverson, a spokeswoman for the US Department of Justice, would not comment on the execution of the order, nor would she confirm whether Garland personally authorized the action. Meanwhile, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said they learned about the raid through the media and were not alerted to the raid beforehand.

“The Department of Justice conducts investigations independently and we leave any matters related to law and order to them. We were not involved,” Jean-Pierre stressed.

Mike Pence, the former vice president under the Trump administration and possible presidential candidate for the 2020 elections, published a tweet in which he condemned the action taken by the FBI and indicated that “these actions undermine the confidence of the people in our justice system . Secretary Garland must be held accountable to the American people as to why this action was taken, and he must do so immediately.”

“The director of the FBI was appointed by Trump. Facts and the truth, facts and the law, that’s what it’s all about,” said the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi,

FBI agents contacted the Secret Service before executing the warrant, a source with knowledge of the situation explained. The Secret Service confirmed the validity of the warrant before allowing the agents into Mar-a-lago.

Federal justice investigates the possible mishandling of classified material since the National Archives Administration indicated that it received, earlier in the year, 15 boxes from Mar-a-lago containing documents from the White House, including papers with classified or confidential information . The National Archives Administration maintained that Trump should have handed over all the material at the end of his administration, for which he requested an investigation by the Department of Justice.

Christina Bobb, an attorney for Trump, said in an interview that investigators said they “were looking for classified documents that they felt should not have been removed from the White House, in addition to looking for other presidential documents.”

There are multiple federal laws that outline the handling of classified documents and sensitive information, including statutes that make it a crime to remove such material to be held in an unauthorized location. Although the search warrant does not necessarily mean that federal justice will file charges, officers who understand that charges should be filed must first show a judge that they have probable cause that a crime was committed.

Two people familiar with the situation stressed that Monday’s search is related to the investigation of the documents extracted from the White House. Agents were also trying to check if Trump had any other presidential documents or classified documents at Mar-a-lago.

Trump had previously said that the presidential documents were delivered “in an ordinary and routine process.” His son, Eric, told Fox News that he spent the day with his father and that the search occurred because “(the) National Archives Administration wanted to verify if Donald Trump had documents in his possession.”

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