Rove said that Secret Service officials have a „responsibility to report a crime,“ and could have told federal investigators if they saw classified documents.
Veteran Republican political strategist Karl Rove said Friday that the Secret Service could have provided federal investigators with the information that led to the FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Florida earlier this month.
The ex-president has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, and accused the FBI of corruption, although the federal agency is currently led by Director Christopher Wray, a Republican whom Trump nominated to the position. The former president also said that the FBI search was part of a broader partisan „witch hunt“ targeting him and his family.
In an interview on Fox News, Rove said that the Secret Service would have a responsibility to report a potential crime to federal officials. He added that an attorney for Trump had reportedly claimed in a June letter that there weren’t any additional classified materials at Mar-a-Lago.
