Trump openly expresses contempt for the FBI. Apparently, the feeling isn't mutual. (via MaddowBlog)
last year, “The notion that the FBI isn’t, in essence, a conservative-leaning organization is really silly.”on the disagreements within federal law enforcement ahead of the search at Mar-a-Lago last August.
Months of disputes between Justice Department prosecutors and FBI agents over how best to try to recover classified documents from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and residence led to a tense showdown near the end of July last year, according to four people familiar with the discussions. According to the Post’s reporting, which has not been independently verified by MSNBC or NBC News, there was “a tense tug of war between two arms of the Justice Department”: Prosecutors wanted to treat the former president like any other American citizen, and pursue a standard course in response to evidence that the Republican was knowingly concealing secret materials he wasn’t supposed to have at his glorified country club.
FBI officials, however, preferred to give Trump special treatment, even pushing the idea that the bureau should get the former president’s permission before executing a court-approved search warrant. The Post’s article added that some FBI field agents tried to “slow” the investigation, with some calling for the investigation to simply end altogether in early June, taking Team Trump’s lies about cooperation at face value.
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