A pair of top Federal Bureau of Investigation officials pushed back on Department of Justice plans to seek a warrant authorising a search of former president Donald Trump’s home because they feared scrutiny from internal watchdogs and congressional committees as a result of searching the ex-president’s property.
According to The Washington Post, prosecutors with the department’s national security division spent months arguing for an aggressive search of Mr Trump’s property because they believed, based on evidence the department had developed, that the twice-impeached ex-president was unlawfully hoarding classified documents that were legally the property of the US government — documents that could result in grave harm to national security if they were disclosed to unauthorised parties.
