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When news broke last week that the FBI was searching Mar-a-Lago, it took Ankush Kardori

a few minutes to process the headlines. Honestly, it was momentarily surreal, truly.

Ankush writes for a couple of different news outlets now, but he used to work for the

Justice Department. He's gotten used to the agency's cautious approach to Donald Trump.

So he was stunned when reporters confirmed that the DOJ sent federal officials to retrieve

classified documents from the former president's home.

Is this really happening? It's so, you know, assertive and unexpected, but it was crazy.

It was really crazy.

Now Ankush is trying to slot this piece of information into the bigger picture of what we know

and what he knows as a former federal prosecutor himself.

It's like endlessly vexing because you get these kind of data points, but then you try

to say, okay, if I were prosecuting or investigating this case myself, like, what is the full gamut

of information that I would want or need to kind of reach some sort of informed decision

and it's always way, way, way more than is publicly available.

What's publicly available is that there's a whole constellation of investigations into

or related to Trump, both his administration and his business.

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