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    Mystery at Mar-a-Lago: What were FBI agents looking for and what are the consequences?

    A federal search warrant like the kind carried out at the home of former President Donald Trump would require detailed evidence and sign-off at the highest levels of the DOJ, legal experts said.
    by Becky Sullivan Aug 09, 2022 5 minutes
    Local law enforcement officers are seen in front of the home of former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on Tuesday.

    Monday's FBI raid on the home of former President Donald Trump — including his safe, according to Trump — has raised eyebrows and questions about what the search could indicate about a possible criminal investigation into the former president and those around him.

    The raid concerned presidential records that Trump removed from the White House when he left office in January 2021, according to Christina Bobb, an attorney representing Trump.

    The FBI search warrant authorized agents to seize "presidential records or any possibly classified material," Bobb said in a Tuesday interview on the Dinesh D'Souza podcast. The search took about 10 hours, she added.

    The execution of the search warrant represents a significant escalation in the investigation that the Department of Justice has been quietly working on for months.

    Read on for more about what the raid tells us about the legal questions at stake.

    What were the records the FBI was looking for?

    We don't know earlier this year by the National Archives and Records Administration.

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