The FBI pushed back against federal prosecutors’ plans to search former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort for classified documents last year, according to a news report.
Despite ample evidence that Trump had defied a subpoena for return of the documents, senior agents suggested the Justice Department should accept false claims by Trump’s lawyers that he had returned all the top secret materials, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
“We are not the presidential records police,” Steven D’Antuono, the chief of the FBI’s Washington, D.C., field office, reportedly told prosecutors.
