This was followed by a several-month-long inquiry into Trump’s mishandling of presidential documents that led up to the criminal search that occurred at the beginning of August. The term FBI raid has become sensationalized in the news, which has spread a lot of misconceptions about the nature of the FBI investigation. The search of Mar-a-Lago marked the first criminal search of a president’s home in the history of the United States. Four years after Nixon’s resignation, in 1978, the Presidential Records Act was passed, changing the ownership of official presidential records to the public. Judge Dearie will be looking over the 11,000 documents obtained in the FBI search and has been given a deadline of Nov. 30th for the entire review of the documents.

Source: New York Times October 09, 2022 14:44 UTC