The FBI search of Mar-a-Lago is unprecedented
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No other president has been charged with improperly removing documents before, and there’s not yet any confirmation of what the FBI found during its search. Some Donald Trump supporters think that documents taken by Trump to Mar-a-Lago would have been declassified by Trump when he was president, so there isn’t an active concern, according to NBC News.
Merrick Garland explained why such an unprecedented event was taking place: “Upholding the rule of law means applying the law evenly, without fear or favor. Under my watch that is precisely what the Justice Department is doing,” per The New York Times. The investigation is ongoing, and the National Archives and the Justice Department have previously asked for any improperly removed documents to be returned. In mid-January 2022, the National Archives recovered around 15 boxes of documents, via The New York Times. In 2018, Trump signed a bill that made unauthorized moving of classified documents into a felony and with a five year maximum, via Business Insider.
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Trump’s final flight on Air Force One was to Mar-a-Lago the morning of Joe Biden’s inauguration, per BBC. While he may have called Mar-a-Lago his “Winter White House,” it’s not an official government building and Trump is no longer president, which makes Mar-a-Lago the wrong place to store government documents. And that was the reason behind a recent FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, looking for any improperly removed classified documents. Some of which could have dire consequences if they fell into the wrong hands.
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The FBI search of Mar-a-Lago is unprecedented
Evan El-Amin/Shutterstock
No other president has been charged with improperly removing documents before, and there’s not yet any confirmation of what the FBI found during its search. Some Donald Trump supporters think that documents taken by Trump to Mar-a-Lago would have been declassified by Trump when he was president, so there isn’t an active concern, according to NBC News.
Merrick Garland explained why such an unprecedented event was taking place: “Upholding the rule of law means applying the law evenly, without fear or favor. Under my watch that is precisely what the Justice Department is doing,” per The New York Times. The investigation is ongoing, and the National Archives and the Justice Department have previously asked for any improperly removed documents to be returned. In mid-January 2022, the National Archives recovered around 15 boxes of documents, via The New York Times. In 2018, Trump signed a bill that made unauthorized moving of classified documents into a felony and with a five year maximum, via Business Insider.
Merrick Garland explained why such an unprecedented event was taking place: “Upholding the rule of law means applying the law evenly, without fear or favor. Under my watch that is precisely what the Justice Department is doing,” per The New York Times. The investigation is ongoing, and the National Archives and the Justice Department have previously asked for any improperly removed documents to be returned. In mid-January 2022, the National Archives recovered around 15 boxes of documents, via The New York Times.
In 2018, Trump signed a bill that made unauthorized moving of classified documents into a felony and with a five year maximum, via Business Insider.
