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The FBI is unlikely to raid any of former President Donald Trump’s other properties in search of additional classified documents, predicted a former Department of Justice official.
On August 8 the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s private club and official residence in Palm Beach, Florida. The Department of Justice has said it was in search of classified documents Trump wasn’t allowed to take with him from the White House. In the process, the former president may have committed several crimes.
Peter Zeidenberg, who served on the Justice Department’s special-prosecution team during the George W. Bush-era Valerie Plame Wilson investigation, told Insider he would be « very surprised » if the FBI searched other places where Trump was spending time since leaving the White House.
« I don’t think there will be, » Zeidenberg said of the possibility of other searches. « I’d be very surprised if he spread these types of materials around the various locations. »
The FBI likely had reason to believe the documents were at Mar-a-Lago and so that’s why they requested a warrant for that property, and they likely got what they were looking for, he added.
« I don’t think they’re gonna go just looking around, » Zeidenberg said, noting the FBI has other considerations such as realizing that Republicans would perceive the search as being politically motivated.
