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The FBI’s decision to execute a search warrant at the home of former President Trump Mar-a-Lago on Monday is “unprecedented” — especially with the unseatted commander-in-chief and the possibility of him running for office again. A former Special Forces-in-charge agent told Fox News Digital on Monday that he has been accused of sexual harassment.
“We’re just not investigating a president who’s finished his term,” said Michael Tubman, former director of the FBI’s Minneapolis field office. is a big move, when you go out and investigate a president, especially one who says he may run again, it’s clear they’re dealing with a very tenuous political climate. .”
Trump announced Monday that his Florida mansion was raided early in the morning. A source told Fox News Digital that the raid was related to documents Trump brought back from his presidency. , the Department of Justice recovered 15 boxes of classified materials from the home.
But Tubman, now retired and not involved in the FBI’s investigation of Trump, said securing a search warrant was “not an easy task.”
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“Certainly, as most of you know, you’ll probably have to present a good reason… First, get a prosecutor who wants to write this, and take it to a judge. “If a crime is committed, we have evidence of the crime at the location you stated and we plan to execute the warrant,” he said by phone. So there’s a lot of information that has to be very convincing to federal judges, and they’re going to scrutinize them.”
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He called it “It’s an excruciating, painful process to write that affidavit. Cross the T, dot the I, and get approval both within the FBI and within the chain of command of the prosecution.”
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“And I have no doubt that it went all the way to the Attorney General before they took it to the judges,” Tubman added.
Asked about the potential for search warrants to be politicized, he said any system “could be broken,” but in such cases, search warrant affidavits will be made public at some point. .
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“You can seal the search warrant for a while. I did it myself. “But it will be public, as is the return that they found, so the affidavit will be bare.”
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He added: “For this to be really political, [will] It must be corrupted every level along the way, but I don’t think it exists. ”