The top intelligence Republican tried to deflect on the FBI Trump raid. It didn’t go well.
CNN host Brianna Keilar on Saturday appeared to stump House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, as he tried to explain away Donald Trump’s mounting legal troubles after the FBI searched the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate last Monday.
As Keilar noted, the Department of Justice “is investigating possible Espionage Act violations” after agents recovered 11 sets of classified documents from Trump’s estate.
“Are you concerned that Donald Trump was keeping these highly classified documents at his resort?” Keilar asked.
Turner replied that he has a “number” of concerns, including “whether or not the raid itself was justified.
