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CNN Legal Analyst Paul Curran called the Justice Department's raid on his former President Donald Trump's home a "bold and dangerous move." . About Trump keeping classified documents since he took office.
On his CNN "At This Hour with Kate Bolduan" on Wednesday, the host spoke with legal analyst He Paul Callan. , otherwise their raid on Trump's massive West Palm Beach residence went too far. prompted Callan by bringing up speculation that the federal government had conducted a raid to seize the
Trump violated the Presidential Records Act of 1978, as 2016 Clinton campaign attorney Mark Elias tweeted Tuesday night. It was possible, and a search of the house was conducted, followed by an investigation that could prevent him from running for public office in the future.
FBI, former President Donald Trump Mar Arago raided Florida home, August 8, 2022 (Felipe Ramales of Fox News Digital)
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All this?
"No, not enough to justify all of this," declared the legal analyst, "and this Department of Justiceto deliver a warrant by assaulting a former president and raiding his private residence.”
Curran said that for the government to go this far, Trump ``Something more than simply keeping classified documents after his term in office,'' he speculated. I think we have to have something more than an argument about what kinds of records we have to keep for the purpose.”
There's more to it than it seems," continued Curran, "and I have to think there's something more serious that they think is being withheld from the president's collection." } Former President Trump, who was in New York City at the time of the raid,condemned the action in a statement on Monday evening, calling it "prosecutorial malfeasance, the weaponization of the judiciary," the system, and I is an attack by the Radical Left Democrats, who desperately do not want to run for president in 2024.
Trump with 2024 flag A man was photographed outside Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., after the FBI conducted a raid on Donald Trump's private residence.(Alon Skuy/Fox News Digital)
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he added, "Such an attack could only take place in a broken Third World country."
Other Republican leaders also condemned the raid, including Governor Ron DeSantis, Republican Governor of Florida, and former Vice President Mike Pence.
On Monday night, the governor of Florida tweeted: Kid's Gloves.Now the administration is getting another of his 87k IRS agents to wield against its enemies?Banana Republic.
Pence tweeted Tuesday. A private residence in American history.
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A CNN legal analyst called the FBI's Mar-a-Lago raid a "bold and dangerous" move. I called.
