FBI Raids Mar-a-Lago: What Does it Mean?

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🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Sarah and David get together for this special Advisory Opinions crossover episode to discuss the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago on Monday. What does it all mean? How does a federal investigation of a senior official work, and what happens next? Plus: some possible theories and explanations that might shed some light on the events of yesterday. Show Notes: -TMD: The FBI Raids Trump’s Home -Andy McCarthy in National Review: The FBI’s Mar-a-Lago ‘Raid’: It’s about the Capitol Riot, Not the Mishandling of Classified Information -Marc Elias Twitter thread Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dispatch Podcast. I'm your host, Sarah Isger, and we have a special crossover episode.
0:06.3	This week with advisory opinions, I've invited David French, and we're going to talk about the FBI
0:11.9	executing a search warrant on the former president's home at Mar-a-Lago. What it means, how it works,
0:17.9	and what could happen next?
0:33.3	Let's dive right in. I just want to start, Sarah. Let's just kind of walk through this.
0:40.1	What we know, what we don't know, and kind of give some thoughts about what it means without
0:46.2	getting wildly speculative. Let's just start with question number one. Why did the FBI search Mar-a-Lago?
0:56.3	This is really the question that we don't know the answer to. We have, according to two sources,
1:01.0	familiar with the investigation that this relates to classified documents being held at Mar-a-Lago.
1:07.4	But that can mean a few things. One, it could relate to the 15 boxes that we know went from the White
1:13.1	House to Mar-a-Lago after Donald Trump left the White House in January of 2021. But those boxes
1:20.0	were retrieved by the FBI months ago at this point. We know them that his lawyers met with
1:26.0	Department of Justice officials just about a month ago to talk about how those were stored.
1:32.3	It's possible at that point they learned of additional documents that were there, things like that.
1:36.6	You know, there's, it could be anything around that. What we haven't heard is that this is something
1:46.9	having to do with January 6th, or anything that the January 6th committee has talked about,
1:52.4	anything about the fake electors, or any of the other January 6th related investigations going on
1:56.8	at the Department of Justice that we know about. But there's a problem with all of this, David, which is
2:02.8	you generally subpoena someone for a document that you know that they have. You don't necessarily
2:11.3	show up with 30 guys and windbreakers. And I mentioned that because what everyone's sort of assuming
2:18.0	this is that it's about either the retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago or how they
2:24.7	were being stored, it just doesn't make a lot of sense with what actually went down. The other
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