What happened during the FBI Mar-a-Lago raid?
The Department of Justice has rebuffed efforts to make public the affidavit supporting the search warrant for former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. The department argues that the document contains sensitive information about witnesses, and that releasing it could “chill” further efforts to secure the co-operation of others with information crucial to its investigations.
Mr Trump yesterday gave his first interview since the raid, a discussion with Fox News Digital in which he acknowledged that the temperature of public discourse “has to be brought down” as angry supporters fume at the FBI raid. However, he continued to frame the search as part of a political witch hunt against him rather than a law enforcement action executed according to due process.
The FBI has warned that threats against federal law enforcement personnel are spiking dramatically in the wake of the raid.
On another front, Mr Trump’s longtime partner and Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg is expected to plead guilty on Thursday on charges that he and the company engaged in a massive 15-year-long tax fraud scheme.
