The Justice Department was criticized for its cautious approach to investigating the former president after new details emerged.
When Attorney General Garland was criticized, he said the Justice Department would follow the law.
FBI agents went to Donald Trump's home on Monday after learning of the facts.
Multiple news outlets reported that federal agents had executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago and that it was related to whether he mishandled classified government documents.
Legal experts agreed that a pile of evidence was needed to back up the warrant for the raid.
David Laufman said that there was every reason to think that the government already had to support probable cause in this case, knowing that they would be besieged with criticism in some quarters.
Laufman said that if he were a senior department official, he would want a sufficient quality and quantity of evidence that was so pulverizing in its effect to simply eliminate any arguments to the contrary.
Legal experts said that for a deliberate Justice Department to turn the page from the politics of the Trump era, the raid of Mar-a-Lago would have to be reviewed at the highest levels.
Gene Rossi, a former federal prosecutor from Northern Virginia, said he couldn't imagine the amount of probable cause set forth in a search warrant. He told Insider that the number of review levels for the search warrant must have been enormous.
In February, the National Archives confirmed that many records left behind by Trump had been torn and taped back together, and that the former president had taken boxes of documents to his resort. The New York Times obtained photographs that showed documents in a toilet bowl that the White House believed were flushed by Trump.
According to a report from Politico, Trump developed a reputation as a notorious destroyer of documents and displayed a penchant for ripping presidential documents and leaving them for staffers to patch up. Historians were worried that his records would be destroyed or poorly preserved, which could violate the Presidential Records Act.
Gifts received in office, letters, emails, and social media posts must be turned over to the Archives at the end of a president's term under a 1970s law.
Trump is in a lot of trouble.
The inquiry into the potential mishandling of classified material is just one area of legal risk for Trump. Trump is facing scrutiny over his efforts to overturn his loss in the 2020 election to Joe Biden because he was at the Trump Tower during the search. The Trump Organization is being investigated by the New York Attorney General.
The move resulted from "prosecutorial misconduct" and the "weaponization of the justice system" according to Trump.
In a prepared statement, Trump said that an assault could only happen in Third World countries. America has become one of the most corrupt countries in the world.
In the event of a criminal charge, Trump was expected to make such claims. Michael Cohen rebuked his claim that Mar-a-Lago was under siege by a large group of FBI agents.
Cohen told Insider that it wasn't good when the FBI raided your property. Cohen is aware of that. Cohen's Rockefeller Center office was raided by the FBI.
The FBI's raid of Cohen's locations was similar to a break-in.
"Despite Donald's repeated claims that the FBI agents knock down doors and ransack properties, it is another lie as they are professional and courteous," Cohen said.
The FBI wouldn't say anything about the search.
The FBI would need to convince a federal judge that there was probable cause for a specific crime in order to get a search warrant.
She said that search warrants come toward the end of an investigation because they tend to tip off the suspect that they are under investigation.
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