I thought the DOJ had “guidelines” to avoid politically
I thought the DOJ had “guidelines” to avoid politically sensitive cases close to an election? I thought the “Justice Department memoranda advise prosecutors against bringing any cases or taking any overt investigative steps with the purpose of impacting an election”? That is what CNN has been saying about Hunter Biden. CNN said that there was a debate to whether or not to follow these “guidelines” because Joe Biden is not up for reelection during the midterm.
If the January 6th “committee” and the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago turns out a big old goose egg. Donald Trump will be the most well vetted politician EVER. Did the FBI really wait over a year to take back “highly classified” documents that put our nation at risk?
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According to multiple reports, federal investigators issued a subpoena for the CCTV footage to the Trump Organization — the ex-president’s eponymous real estate and hotel business — earlier this year after a meeting between DoJ representatives and Mr Trump’s attorneys at his Florida home. The meeting was part of a long-running effort by federal officials to recover government property — presidential records, some highly classified — that Mr Trump improperly removed from the White House before his term expired in January 2021.
Officials with the Justice Department and the National Archives and Records Administration (Nara) have been negotiating with Mr Trump for the return of the records from his administration, which under US law are government property. In January, Nara told the House Oversight Committee that the ex-president had turned over 15 boxes of records, including documents the agency characterised as so highly classified that they could not be easily describe without running afoul of US law protecting national defence secrets.
Thus far, the Justice Department has declined to explain its actions or comment on the investigation into Mr Trump’s retention of federal records past his time in the White House. But legal experts say his possession of any government documents, classified or otherwise, could expose him to significant criminal liability. One law signed by Mr Trump during his time in the White House significantly stiffened the penalty for improper handling of classified information, extending the prison term for violators from one year to five.
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