Until now the reason is not known and what the agents were looking for.
The FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence on Monday marked an extraordinary escalation of an investigation into his handling of certain documents from his presidency and raises questions about whether his legal exposure extends beyond whether he improperly took government records. when he left the White House.
It is still unknown what exactly the FBI was looking for and why.
But to get a search warrant, investigators would have to have shown a judge that there was probable cause for a crime and that evidence of that crime was at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Palm Beach resort.
Here’s what you need to know about the legal significance of the raid, which comes at a time when Trump is preparing a potential 2024 presidential bid, and what could come next.
What would the Justice Department have to do to obtain the search warrant?
To obtain judicial approval for the search, investigators would have had to present to a judge a detailed affidavit establishing that there is probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed and that there is evidence of that crime within the last few days in the property where registration is sought.
The search warrant would have been filed under seal, meaning its details are not publicly available at the moment (although they may be made public in the future).
There is only one sealed search warrant application in West Palm Beach federal court from June that was still not closed as of Friday, according to the court’s public record of cases.
But before prosecutors got to the point of asking a magistrate judge to approve the warrant, to proceed with a search that had such historical and political importance, investigators would have had to get the go-ahead from the highest levels of the Department. of Justice, legal experts told CNN.
Former Justice Department officials told CNN it was likely that, at a minimum, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco would have had to give the green light and that Attorney General Merrick Garland and/or FBI Director Chris Wray could also have been given the green light. consulted.
“Not only would investigators have to suggest it, not only would a line prosecutor have to agree with it, but multiple levels of management would have to have approved it, right down to the attorney general,” said Daren Firestone, a former DOJ attorney, to CNN.
The Justice Department has declined to comment.
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