A person familiar with the investigation said agents were conducting a court-authorized search as they probe the potential mishandling of classified documents that were shipped to Mar-a-Lago. [snip]
To take such a step would require approval at the highest levels of the Justice Department. A department spokeswoman declined to comment when asked if Attorney General Merrick Garland approved the step.
Lock him up! Lock him up!
BONUS: Former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman had this interesting take --
In Trump’s case, no surprise, the potential offense appears to be particularly brazen and damaging. Among the documents he reportedly took with him and has declined to return are true historical items that belong to the American people, including the letter President Obama left for him when he took office and his bizarre valentines to North Korea dictator Kim Jong-Un.
Further, a documents charge, as presidential accusations go, would be relatively easy to prove and would sidestep issues of 1st Amendment protected political activity that Trump no doubt would claim if he were indicted in relation to, say, his incendiary speech at the Ellipse on Jan. 6.
And most important, there’s this: Anyone who “willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies or destroys” official documents “shall be” disqualified — barred for life — from holding future federal office.
BONUS II: Predictably, the Malignant Loser's legion of bootlickers and democracy destroyers were in full howl about the raid. More unhinged howling here and here. Of course, they were primed to howl the minute a search warrant, indictment or any other legal action threatening their cult leader dropped, so bring it on.
BONUS III: Former Federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann on MSNBC: "If I were Donald Trump's lawyer right now, thank God I'm not, I would be advising my client to be telling [their] family, 'I am looking at jail time, and we should make plans accordingly.'"
(Photo: "FBI?!? Quick, flush all the toilets!")
