WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department’s silence about its search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home is a sign of an investigation being run “by…
Trump disclosed on Monday that FBI agents were at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach.
“Their job is to conduct investigations in accordance with the law and to not prejudice the rights of the people they are investigating while they do it,” said Kristy Parker, a former federal prosecutor now working with the advocacy group Protect Democracy. “What we are seeing is a by-the-book process, and that is a good sign that we have an independent Department of Justice.”
“It’s such an enormous, unprecedented thing to search a former president’s home that I am confident they wouldn’t do it unless they felt they had a pretty compelling reason,” said former prosecutor Randall Eliason, who said he believes the Justice Department is wise to remain mum.Article content
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