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On November 18, Attorney General Merrick Garland named Jack Smith as independent special counsel to lead the investigation of the classified material case, and to review Trump's role in the January 6 United States Capitol attack, with specific focus on any potential obstruction to the transfer of presidential power that may have occurred ...
Trump and his family watched most of the FBI search from New York remotely via a live video feed transmitted from Mar-a-Lago's system of security cameras. [140] [141] Trump and his attorneys refused the FBI's requests to turn off the cameras. [142] Eric Trump later said that his family would release the footage "at the right time". [143] [142]
After the indictment, Trump and his allies within the Republican Party escalated verbal attacks on the FBI, Justice Department, and federal prosecutors, whom Trump denounced in a speech to the Georgia Republican Party as "cowards", "fascists and thugs", and "sinister forces" days following his indictment. [165]
In the meantime, a Trump attorney asked a senior Justice Department lawyer and FBI agents to meet at Mar-a-Lago on June 3 and pick up the “responsive documents.”
Trump supporters denied this and said the former president has been unfairly charged by DOJ and FBI officials in the classified documents case and in the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Mar-a Lago search: What could the FBI have been looking for? Most speculation is focused on a series of ongoing investigations of the ex-president. Why did the FBI search Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate ...
The FBI also spied upon and collected information on Puerto Rican independence leader Pedro Albizu Campos and his Nationalist political party in the 1930s. Albizu Campos was convicted three times in connection with deadly attacks on US government officials: in 1937 (Conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States), in 1950 (attempted murder), and in 1954 (after an armed assault on ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump's administration launched a sweeping round of cuts at the Justice Department on Friday that appeared to focus on FBI agents and others who worked on ...