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Newly revealed photographs reveal two occasions on which former President Donald Trump apparently flushed documents down the toilet.

In the images revealed on Monday, it's unclear what the documents are in reference to -- and who authored them -- but they appear to be written in Trump's handwriting in black marker. Trump has denied the allegations, and in a statement given to Axios on Monday, a spokesman claimed that reporting about the practice was fabricated. Trump had a pattern of disregarding normal record preservation procedures.

In a statement, the ex-president described the incident as 'an unannounced raid' and did not specify what was taken.

“Because Nara identified classified information in the boxes,” the chief archivist David Ferriero said in a letter to Congress at the time, “Nara staff has been in communication with the Department of Justice.” By the time Trump issued the statement, suggesting the raid was ongoing, the FBI had already left the property. The Justice Department has been quietly examining the prospect of opening a criminal investigation into the matter of Trump’s removal of documents since at least April, according to a source with knowledge of the inquiry.

Images published ahead of new book on 45th presidency offer possible evidence of violations of Presidential Records Act.

Trump, described by Axios as “a notorious destroyer of Oval Office documents”, was the alleged flusher. Most words are illegible, but one name that is clearly visible is that of the New York Republican congresswoman and potential 2024 running mate Elise Stefanik. “You have to be pretty desperate to sell books if pictures of paper in a toilet bowl is part of your promotional plan,” a Trump spokesperson, Taylor Budowich, told Axios in advance of Monday’s report.

Former President Donald Trump takes the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Texas, on August 6, 2022. (CNN) ...

But, Monday's FBI activity suggests that Trump's legal problems are likely to get worse before they get better. "Three former White House officials told CNN they saw Trump, on numerous occasions, manually destroy papers he was no longer interested in or had finished reviewing -- a practice that made it difficult for White House staff secretaries to preserve presidential records. Over the weekend, he convincingly won a straw poll Boxes of items were taken during the search, a source familiar with the investigation told CNN. Agents appear to be focused on the area of the sprawling estate where Trump's living quarters and offices are located. (Worth noting: Trump is not a lawyer.)

That appears to be the intended destination of what look like torn-up presidential documents in photographs released by reporter Maggie Haberman to the news ...

An administration is allowed to exclude personal records that are purely private or don’t have an effect on the duties of a president. As soon as a president leaves office, the National Archivist gets legal custody of all of them Presidents are generally on their honor to be good stewards of history. The government compiles and preserves these records to give an accurate accounting of the leaders the country has chosen. At the conclusion of an administration, these documents form the basis for the formal collections of the Public Papers of the President. But these public documents have so far always been available to the public – and they’ve been available quickly. Until Trump, there have been no missing public speeches in the permanent collection. In most presidencies, the document or transcript is available a few days to a couple of weeks after any event. In 1957, the National Historical Publications Commission, a part of the National Archives, recommended developing a uniform system so all materials from presidencies could be archived. Haberman has a book coming out on former President Donald Trump in early October. One photo, allegedly of a White House toilet, shows a scrap of paper with what Haberman says is Trump’s handwriting on it, sitting at the bottom of the toilet bowl. In speeches that President George W. Bush gave in the 2002 midterm election period, he made the same joke more than 50 times as his icebreaker. Presidential speeches often give a different perception of an administration. This could be the first visual documentation of Trump’s already-reported habit of flushing documents down a White House toilet.

Federal agents searched the Florida residence of Donald Trump on Monday, a significant step by prosecutors against the former president over his handling of ...

FORMER US President Donald Trump said FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday and broke into his safe, coming amid a US Justice Department ...

Trump, who said on Monday night the FBI was at his home in Mar-a-Lago, faces a string of lawsuits and investigations.

Trump also could be charged with “seditious conspiracy,” a rarely used statute that makes it illegal to overthrow the US government by force. He accused her of lying to drum up sales for a book. The US House of Representatives Oversight Committee at that time said it was expanding an investigation into Trump’s actions and asked the Archives to turn over additional information. Trump and two of his adult children, Donald Trump Jr and Ivanka Trump, agreed to testify in the investigation starting on July 15. The investigation focuses in part on a phone call Trump made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, on January 2, 2021. A congressional panel investigating the January 6, 2021, assault by Trump supporters on the US Capitol is working to build a case that he broke the law in trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat.

had searched the private residence of former President Donald J. Trump, with some suggesting that federal agents should be arrested and others hinting that the ...

Any FBI agent conducting law enforcement functions outside the purview of our State should be arrested upon sight.” “I’ve seen enough,” Representative Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader, wrote in a statement that he posted online. Mr. Trump and his allies have relentlessly disparaged the F.B.I. for taking the lead in the investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. And more recently, the former president’s allies in Congress and the media have sought to deflect blame from him by baselessly depicting the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol as a “false flag” operation run by the bureau and abetted by the Justice Department. “If they can do it to a former President, imagine what they can do to you,” the Twitter account for the House Republican caucus wrote. Hinting at a possible congressional investigation into the sitting attorney general if Republicans take control of the House in the midterm elections, Mr. McCarthy added, “Attorney General Garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar.” The attacks on the search of Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s beachfront domain in southern Florida, continued a longstanding reflex among his supporters to assail federal law-enforcement officials as biased and corrupt.

Donald Trump says a "large group of FBI agents" have raided his Mar-a-Lago estate and broken into his safe. Here's what we know.

The investigation focuses in part on a phone call Mr Trump made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, on January 2, 2021. Mr Trump says the alleged raid is an attack from those who want to impact his chances of running for president again. Mr Trump previously confirmed that he had agreed to return certain records to the archives, calling it "an ordinary and routine process." The US House of Representatives Oversight Committee announced at the time that it was expanding an investigation into how the documents ended up at Mar-a-Lago and Mr Trump's involvement, and asked the archives to turn over additional information. This morning Mr Trump released a statement saying his Florida home is "under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents". Former US president Donald Trump says a "large group of FBI agents" have raided his Mar-a-Lago estate and broken into his safe.

PALM BEACH, United States: Former US president Donald Trump said Monday (Aug 8) that his Mar-A-Lago residence in Florida was being "raided" by FBI agents in what he called an act of "prosecutorial misconduct". The FBI declined to comment on whether the ...

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Donald Trump's team and allies are moving swiftly to draw political benefit from an unannounced search by FBI agents at the former president's Mar-a-Lago ...

The search is the latest development in a months-long investigation into whether the Trump administration mishandled presidential records. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his office also weren’t given a heads up about the search. He eschewed making a media appearance even as Eric Trump took to Fox News, and his daughter-in-law, Lara, did the same. Focus groups of Trump 2020 voters have shown that even they have grown wary of the drama that accompanies his political ventures and are ready to move on. Both the person close to Trump and another individual who is in touch with the former president speculated that he would now expedite his decision to announce a presidential bid. Aides said they were pleased with a statement by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who vowed to take action against the Department of Justice over the FBI’s search. By the end of the night, the RNC had dashed off a fundraising text: “THIS IS NOT A DRILL: UNPRECEDENTED move Biden’s FBI RAIDS Pres. Trump’s home. The person noted papers were seized from the home, where Trump has kept his primary residence and set up his post-presidential office. While Trump’s team was bullish about the political benefits of being targeted by the FBI, the situation comes with clear and obvious downsides. The search would require the signoff of a federal judge or magistrate, who would issue the warrant based upon evidence of a potential crime. And, soon enough, a clear narrative emerged from them: The search represented a deliberate political targeting, one that underscored the Democrat’s perception of Trump as a political threat. The FBI and DOJ have declined to comment on the search.

Law enforcement agents searched the 45th president's mansion – and gave him another reason to run in 2024, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde.

As so often in the rabbit hole down which Trump has led us, I fear the news of the raid is not the unalloyed delight that many of his detractors may be celebrating it as. Still, what kind of world are we living in when a man of the people is treated like one of the people? It surely makes it more, not less likely, that his 2024 presidential run will be announced in short order, very possibly breaking his agreement to hold off before the midterms. Not for the first time, much of the most unwittingly revealing commentary on it all comes from Trump himself, who says of the raid, “nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before”. Well quite. Trump is already fundraising off the outrage his winged monkeys are whipping up after last night’s raid, and attacking its very legitimacy. Of all the things to lose sleep over in the contemporary US, the imminent peril of dozens of FBI agents turning up on your doorstep and finding classified presidential records among your ironing is arguably not one of them.

WASHINGTON: The FBI searched Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate as part of an investigation into whether he took classified records from the White House to ...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican who is considered a potential 2024 presidential candidate, said on Twitter that it was “an escalation in the weaponisation” of US government agencies. The National Archives said Trump should have turned over that material upon leaving office, and it asked the Justice Department to investigate. “My father always kept press clippings,” Eric Trump said. Monday's search intensified the months-long probe into how classified documents ended up in boxes of White House records located at Mar-a-Lago earlier this year. Familiar battle lines, forged during a a four-year presidency shadowed by investigations, quickly took shape again Monday night. Advertisement

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Unprecedented search of an ex-president's home for official documents provoked outrage from supporters but proving intent will be key to any charge.

At the start of the meeting, Trump paid a visit and chatted to the investigators but without answering questions. In the end, the DoJ decided not to prosecute Clinton because it found no evidence of intent on her part. According to CNN, the extra boxes had been identified in June when DoJ investigators travelled to Mar-a-Lago to meet with two of Trump’s lawyers to discuss possibly classified material. Several prominent conservatives likened the search to the actions of a tinpot dictator. At the time, father and son were in Trump Tower in Manhattan, where the former president is preparing to be deposed in a civil lawsuit brought by New York state relating to his company’s financial bookkeeping. According to NBC News, they stayed on site most of the day.

Donald Trump had his own way of keeping records during his presidency: heaping documents in boxes, tearing up papers to signal a discussion was over, ...

Pence and Trump have been at political odds for months, with Trump endorsing Republican candidates who embrace his false claims about the 2020 election and ...

One reason that the Mar-a-Lago search might “unite [the] different factions in the party,” as a Trump aide told Politico, is that it isn’t pro-Trump but anti-FBI. Republicans from both the pro- and less-pro-Trump segments of the GOP get to express outrage at a group that Republicans are primed to distrust. Never quite as popular as Trump, he saw his favorability ratings with the GOP tank in the wake of Trump’s criticisms of him. Cast the FBI as the left, and you gain support on the right. In polling released on Tuesday, 2 in 5 Americans said they thought Trump should face criminal charges related to the Capitol riot. Pence’s argument that the FBI was politically motivated certainly derives largely from the narrative that Trump and his allies constructed to backstop that position. Following an example set in part by Trump himself, GOP officials rushed to offer up products in the robust marketplace of social media commentary. More than three-quarters of Republicans still view Trump favorably, down only slightly from the height of the 2020 campaign. The Barr probe led by special counsel John Durham is ongoing but has completely failed to demonstrate that the Russia investigation was not warranted by the facts available at the time. It also had an added benefit: Should the FBI launch further probes, his team would already be conditioned to respond with skepticism. Set aside Pence’s self-incriminating framing (that the FBI was acting on political motivation during the Trump-Pence administration), and remember where this idea originated. “… After years where FBI agents were found to be acting on political motivation during our administration, the appearance of continued partisanship by the Justice Department must be addressed.” The rationale was uncomplicated and now quite familiar: He didn’t want anyone thinking he had lost the race but for Russian involvement.

Protesters calling for the arrest of former U.S. President Donald Trump and supporters asking for him to announce his 2024 run for the presidency rally outside ...

In the United States, presidents are effectively chosen in separate elections in each of the 50 states, not through the national popular vote. At a rally shortly beforehand, Trump urged supporters to walk to the Capitol and "fight like hell." But investigators who searched Trump's office and opened a safe at his Florida seaside estate Monday carted away more documents that were not turned over in January. Under the Presidential Records Act of 1978, the official records of all presidents and vice presidents remain publicly owned, even after they leave office. The White House says it was not given advance notice of the raid. Monday's unprecedented FBI raid at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida was the latest indication that investigators remain focused on the country's 45th president.

The ruling on ex-President Donald Trump's tax returns came a day after the FBI raided his Florida residence as part of a probe into White House documents.

Neal said that in addition to reviewing how tax laws are applies to a sitting president, the committee also was interested in reviewing possible conflicts of interest by a president. Finally,§ 6103(f)(1) is not facially unconstitutional because there are many circumstances under which it can be validly applied, and Treasury's decision to comply with the Request did not violate the Trump Parties' First Amendment rights. As the case was pending, President Joe Biden defeated Trump in his bid for re-election. "Further, the Request did not violate separation of powers principles under any of the potentially applicable tests primarily because the burden on the Executive Branch and the Trump Parties is relatively minor. Tuesday's ruling applies to Trump's returns for the tax years 2015 through 2020. "'I'm pleased that this long-anticipated opinion makes clear the law is on our side. "At this stage, it is not our place to delve deeper than this." Trump has argued that all of those probes are politically motivated. Former President Donald Trump's federal income tax returns and those of Trump business entities must be turned over to the House Ways and Means Committee, a federal appeals court panel said in a ruling Tuesday. The appeals panel noted that while tax returns are generally confidential under federal law, one exception is when the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee requests such returns in writing from the secretary of the Treasury Department. - Tax returns of former President Donald Trump and related entities must be turned over to the House Ways and Means Committee, a federal appeals court panel said in a ruling. The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was announced a day after FBI agents searched Trump's residence at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, as part of an investigation into the removal of sensitive documents from the White House when he left office in 2021.

A federal appeals court panel ruled Tuesday that House Democrats are entitled to review Donald Trump's tax returns for 2015 to 2020, rejecting several legal ...

As for the separation of powers, “this case has required much discussion of the intrusion by Congress into the Executive Branch and the personal life of [Trump] and the burden that such intrusions impose,” the decision says. The committee has “identified a legitimate legislative purpose that it requires information to accomplish,” the ruling says. “We look forward to the IRS complying with this ruling and delivering the requested documents so that Ways and Means can begin its oversight responsibilities of the mandatory presidential audit program.”

Former President Donald Trump's tax returns must be turned over to a congressional committee, a federal appeals court ruled.

Democrats said they expect to receive the former president's "tax returns and audit files immediately," though Trump is likely to further appeal the ...

It is the nature of the investigative and legislative processes.” This is a feature of our democratic republic, not a bug,” Judge David Sentelle wrote in the panel’s opinion. “Congressional investigations sometimes expose the private information of the entities, organizations, and individuals that they investigate.

After Trump announced in a statement that his resort and residence was “currently under siege, raided, and occupied”, angry supporters rushed there to protest ...

“If there was a 99% chance” of Trump running again, “it’s 100% now,” Politico’s source added. “Using government power to persecute political opponents is something we have seen many times from 3rd world Marxist dictatorships,” he said on Twitter. “But never before in America.” Now the US justice department may have handed Trump a gift in disguise. After Trump announced in a statement that his resort and residence was “currently under siege, raided, and occupied”, angry supporters rushed there to protest as police with rifles looked on. Similarly, Republican voters’ enthusiasm for the idea of Trump running for president again had been declining. Trump’s influence on the Republican party had appeared to wane somewhat in recent months.

The FBI search at Mar-a-Lago prompts sincere talk of violence. But some threats remain mere threats.

The January 6 committee has adopted a counter-insurrection strategy by portraying Trump squarely as the leader of a violent movement, and not simply the leader of the GOP. But some of his more extreme followers are now turning on one another. Trump, as a former president of the United States, may be a rather unique leader of a violent insurrection, but that doesn’t make the ongoing, multiyear strategy any less effective. The FBI’s arrival at Mar-a-Lago yesterday evening to collect evidence in a criminal investigation related to former President Donald Trump is the trigger that some of his supporters needed to suggest that violence is imminent. Even on the night of the FBI search, in the area of Florida that he now calls home, an impromptu roadside demonstration in support of him attracted “roughly two dozen” supporters, the Miami Herald reported. The latest such propaganda is shocking to read, mostly because the talk of violence comes so casually to Trump’s apologists. The bad news is that much of this talk is sincere.

"Lock and load," was one of the top comments on an online forum dedicated to former President Donald Trump on Monday night, soon after it emerged his ...

CNN has not independently confirmed that this is the judge in question and is not naming him at this time. Reached for comment Tuesday, officials from the court didn't say why the judge's webpage was removed. Users also encouraged others to post the address of the magistrate judge they believe signed off on the search warrant. While some mentions of "civil war" came from Trump critics expressing fear what his supporters might do -- one researcher posted multiple screenshots "We are seeing conspiratorial rhetoric from elected officials, political leaders, and political entertainers that is fueling calls for real-world violence," Jones said. One post CNN found called for violence against FBI agents.

The former president's legal team has vowed to fight the congressional effort “tooth and nail.” He is virtually certain to appeal to the Supreme Court.

He said the request applying that law for Mr. Trump’s taxes did not violate separation-of-powers principles because it imposed only a minor burden on the executive branch. In December, nearly two and a half years after the House filed the case, Judge McFadden issued a ruling on it. But the judge to which it was assigned — Trevor N. McFadden of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, whom Mr. Trump appointed in 2017 — was slow to make any ruling. Representative Richard E. Neal of Massachusetts, the top Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee, issued a new request for the former president’s tax returns from 2015 to 2020. Mr. Trump’s lawyers sought an injunction to block the request, saying it served no legitimate legislative purpose and contending that House Democrats’ real motivation was to expose his financial information for political gain. The third judge on the panel, Karen L. Henderson, who was appointed in 1990 by President George Bush, joined the result and part of the majority reasoning. But Mr. Trump pursued a strategy of using the slow pace of litigation to run out the clock on congressional oversight efforts. When we receive the returns, we will begin our oversight of the I.R.S.’s mandatory presidential audit program.” If in the meantime Republicans retake the House in the midterm elections, the Ways and Means Committee would be led by a Republican and would most likely drop the request. When Democrats won control of the House in 2018, they began trying to investigate his finances using congressional oversight powers. The Treasury Department refused to turn over the records during his administration. Mr. Trump’s legal team has vowed to fight the congressional effort “tooth and nail,” and he is virtually certain to appeal to the Supreme Court. If at least four justices on the court vote to take any such appeal, that would effectively shield Mr. Trump from a final judgment until next year.

Democracies Can Weather Prosecutions of Former Presidents ... Brazil, France, Israel and others have taken legal action against ex-leaders without doing lasting ...

The ruling adds to the former president's growing list of legal challenges as he hints at a 2024 presidential campaign.

Trump’s role in the January 6 US Capitol riot has also been pushed into the spotlight by a House committee investigating the events surrounding and on the day. The Ways and Means Committee sued to force the disclosure of Trump’s tax returns in 2019, but the dispute dragged on for 19 months after Trump left office. The raid drew outrage from Trump’s ally’s in Congress, with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene calling it “tyrannical”. On Monday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the nation’s federal domestic intelligence and law enforcement agency, searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. It is typical but not required for US presidents to release their tax returns, a norm meant to promote transparency that Trump has refused to follow. The decision is yet another setback for Trump, who is mired in legal conflicts and investigations as he mulls another run for president in the 2024 election.

The Justice Department official who oversaw the investigation of Hillary Clinton's handling of classified records says there's simply no comparing the ...

Engel has testified to the Jan. 6 select committee about his resistance to Trump’s plan to remove Justice Department leaders and replace them with compliant officials who would support his effort to remain in power. In fact, some of the very Trump allies who cooperated with the House’s January 6 probe were among those charged by Trump with managing his presidential records after leaving office. In addition, Trump can speak to the nature of any potentially classified material that may have been the basis for the search and whether he took steps to declassify any of it as he left office. “He could describe what was at stake and what the point of disagreement was. CNN reported that one of the DOJ officials involved in the Trump investigation is his immediate successor. In the absence of more detailed information about the investigation, it’s unclear what potential crimes DOJ is probing.

Within hours of the search at Mar-a-Lago, a chorus of Republican lawmakers, conservative talk-show hosts, anti-government provocateurs and pro-Trump conspiracy ...

After FBI agents executed a search warrant at the Florida estate of former President Donald Trump, conservative outlets and media personalities immediately ...

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Christina Bobb also said that Florida magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart signed off on the warrant that allowed FBI agents to search the former president's ...

The search of Trump’s expansive residence took hours on Monday. The former president was not at Mar-a-Lago during the search but at Trump Tower in New York, POLITICO reported. His lawyers likely have a copy of the search warrant, though they won’t have access to the affidavit or other documents that are typically kept confidential until the case is resolved. The former president has called the search unprecedented and politically motivated. Trump lawyer Christina Bobb fleshed out other details surrounding the case. Trump is likely best positioned to provide the details his allies are asking for. His son Eric Trump informed him of the FBI’s search of his property.

WASHINGTON: The FBI searched Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate as part of an investigation into whether he took classified records from the White House to ...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican who is considered a potential 2024 presidential candidate, said on Twitter that it was “an escalation in the weaponisation” of US government agencies. The National Archives said Trump should have turned over that material upon leaving office, and it asked the Justice Department to investigate. “My father always kept press clippings,” Eric Trump said. Monday's search intensified the months-long probe into how classified documents ended up in boxes of White House records located at Mar-a-Lago earlier this year. Familiar battle lines, forged during a a four-year presidency shadowed by investigations, quickly took shape again Monday night. Advertisement

Former US president Donald Trump is not known for his subtle use of language. But the announcement his Florida home was "under siege" by the FBI represented ...

Republican House minority leader wrote in a statement: "I've seen enough. "But often the way to satisfy a judge in that way is to point to the testimony of somebody who can speak from firsthand knowledge and say that the evidence is still there." "On the other hand, that is a very difficult line to draw because sometimes the Department of Justice could be accused of taking steps to influence an election by not acting." But that didn't stop Mr Trump's supporters and fellow Republicans swiftly accusing the FBI and DOJ of a political witch hunt targeting the former president to deter him from announcing his candidacy for 2024. "Now, it's possible that the government had found other ways to satisfy a judge that the there's reason to do the search and that the information is not stale," he said. The FBI needed to convince a federal judge of "probable cause", meaning the agency had sufficient reason to believe a crime had been committed and evidence of that crime was at the location it planned to search. "What is significant about this is that the probable cause showing can't be historical," said Brian Jacobs, a former federal prosecutor in the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. And so, in the case of the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago this week, Mr Trump may attempt to argue that he declassified them on the way out of the White House. On the national stage, he was recently skewered in a series of prime-time hearings by the January 6 committee, which has spent more than a year gathering evidence of the former president's key role in the riot at the US Capitol in 2021. Such a conviction would also disqualify them from "holding any office under the United States", according to the law — a prospect likely to play on the mind of anyone invested in Mr Trump's political fortunes, for better or worse. It is not clear if the search was still ongoing at the time of the announcement, as Mr Trump was at another of his famous properties, Trump Tower in New York. But the announcement his Florida home was "under siege" by the FBI represented a stunning development in his dealings with the Department of Justice (DOJ), signature hyperbole aside.

WASHINGTON: Former US president Donald Trump on Tuesday (Aug 9) tried to turn the news that the FBI had searched his Florida estate to his benefit, ...

Trump continues to claim falsely that the election was stolen through widespread voting fraud. Previous Supreme Court rulings have held that Congress cannot limit the list of eligible officeholders. It is a criminal offense to conceal or destroy government records. FBI agents and a Trump lawyer, Evan Corcoran, spent a day reviewing materials, the source said. The request almost certainly also would be approved by FBI director Christopher Wray, a Trump appointee, and his boss, Attorney General Merrick Garland, who was appointed by Biden. Trump continues to flirt publicly with running again for president in 2024 but has not said clearly whether he will do so.

Donald Trump's presidency at times threatened to tear America apart, and the country's democracy, institutions and equilibrium staggered away from his ...

And the vitriol was pouring out on social media, recalling the violent speech that led up to the Capitol attack. And it demonstrated how many Republicans with aspirations of winning elections know they must show total loyalty to the former President, whatever his alleged transgressions. This new national nightmare is sure to color yet another election since Trump is already a front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination and millions of supporters will buy into his storylines. The unhinged rhetoric was, if anything, more extreme on conservative media outlets that supported and enabled Trump while he was president. The former President met 12 of his closest House allies at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club on Tuesday and got nothing but support for a bid to get his old job back. Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, who raised a fist in encouragement to Trump's mob before it stormed the Capitol on January 6 said that, at a minimum, Garland should be impeached or resign. The FBI search on Monday represented a remarkable development in just one of the legal fronts bearing down on Trump. It recently emerged that his lawyers are in discussions with Justice Department prosecutors conducting a probe into the circumstances surrounding the January 6, 2021, insurrection. And because government prosecutors don't typically talk about ongoing investigations unless they reach a decision to charge someone -- to ensure the integrity of the probe and the privacy of those under investigation -- it is unlikely there will be clarity on the situation anytime soon. And he is set to be deposed on Wednesday While the furious reaction from Trump world builds, his defenders are ignoring one key fact: The FBI didn't just turn up at his Palm Beach residence on a whim. That includes FBI Director Christopher Wray (a Trump appointee), Attorney General Merrick Garland and the former President himself, who has not said what was written in the search warrant. Such procedures are how it's supposed to work in the justice system, which rests on the principle that no one -- not even former presidents -- are above the law.

Republican Tim Michels, a construction executive endorsed by former President Donald Trump, will face Democratic Gov. Tony Evers in what could be a tight ...

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Republicans in Wisconsin will pick their gubernatorial candidate Tuesday night, setting up one of the most important and closely contested general elections ...

And two reach seats for Republicans in Connecticut — to challenge Democratic Reps. Jahana Hayes and Joe Courtney — have no-drama, unopposed primaries Tuesday as well. She was able to beat back a well-funded primary challenger by 20 points in 2020. Trump also targeted Wisconsin state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, backing a primary challenger running against one of the most influential state legislative leaders in the country. Trump also squared off with the local GOP in Connecticut’s Senate race — and won. Meanwhile, Vermont Democrats are getting ready to send a woman to Congress for the first time in state history. Michels will face Democratic Gov. Tony Evers in November, in what is expected to be a highly competitive governor race in the battleground state. Last week, Kansas voters overwhelmingly rejected a state constitutional amendment that would have cleared the way for new abortion restrictions there. She will be heavily favored in November. Kleefisch was seen as an early favorite for the GOP nod until Michels’ late entry into the race. Wade era, which appears to show Democrats getting a boost even as Republicans held the seat. But it remains an open question how strongly voters will consider abortion as they make their picks for elected offices. Trump has been angered by Vos’ refusal to push for “decertifying” the 2020 election results — a legally impossible notion that has nevertheless gained traction on the right — even as Vos has led the state legislature in funding an investigation into the state’s elections.

Former president Donald Trump's preferred candidate, Tim Michels, won the Republican nomination for governor of Wisconsin on Tuesday, defeating a rival ...

Every seat in the House and a third of the seats in the 100-member Senate are up for election. Here’s a complete calendar of all the primaries in 2022. As of April 25, 46 of the 50 states had settled on the boundaries for 395 of 435 U.S. House districts. The AP had not officially signaled that Herrera Beutler would not advance to the general election as of Tuesday evening. Scott Jensen, a physician who is skeptical of coronavirus vaccines, was projected to win the Republican nomination for governor of Minnesota. He will face Gov. Tim Walz, won the Democratic nomination. The Senate seat is favored by nonpartisan analysts to remain in Democratic hands in November. Trump won the district by about 10 points in 2020, and though it was favored to remain red heading into the day, the results were being closely watched as a barometer for voter attitudes. Democrats say his working-class background will give him a favorable contrast to Johnson, who is among the wealthiest members of the Senate. In addition to Wisconsin and Minnesota, voters in Connecticut and Vermont also picked nominees. In addition to Wisconsin and Minnesota, voters in Connecticut and Vermont also picked nominees. And when people feel threatened by the kind of progress that’s being made, they’ll do anything to take it back.” Two and a half hours after the polls closed, Kleefisch told supporters that she had conceded the race to Michels and urged the party to quickly come together.

Donald Trump's presidency at times threatened to tear America apart, and the country's democracy, institutions and equilibrium staggered away from his ...

And the vitriol was pouring out on social media, recalling the violent speech that led up to the Capitol attack. And it demonstrated how many Republicans with aspirations of winning elections know they must show total loyalty to the former President, whatever his alleged transgressions. This new national nightmare is sure to color yet another election since Trump is already a front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination and millions of supporters will buy into his storylines. The unhinged rhetoric was, if anything, more extreme on conservative media outlets that supported and enabled Trump while he was president. The former President met 12 of his closest House allies at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club on Tuesday and got nothing but support for a bid to get his old job back. Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, who raised a fist in encouragement to Trump's mob before it stormed the Capitol on January 6 said that, at a minimum, Garland should be impeached or resign. The FBI search on Monday represented a remarkable development in just one of the legal fronts bearing down on Trump. It recently emerged that his lawyers are in discussions with Justice Department prosecutors conducting a probe into the circumstances surrounding the January 6, 2021, insurrection. And because government prosecutors don't typically talk about ongoing investigations unless they reach a decision to charge someone -- to ensure the integrity of the probe and the privacy of those under investigation -- it is unlikely there will be clarity on the situation anytime soon. And he is set to be deposed on Wednesday While the furious reaction from Trump world builds, his defenders are ignoring one key fact: The FBI didn't just turn up at his Palm Beach residence on a whim. That includes FBI Director Christopher Wray (a Trump appointee), Attorney General Merrick Garland and the former President himself, who has not said what was written in the search warrant. Such procedures are how it's supposed to work in the justice system, which rests on the principle that no one -- not even former presidents -- are above the law.

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Mr. Trump and his Wisconsin supporters hold a grudge against Justice Hagedorn because he cast the deciding vote in rejecting Mr. Trump’s legal efforts to overturn the election results in December 2020. Mr. Michels, who was the 2004 Republican nominee for Senate in Wisconsin, has spent much of the time since then living in New York and Connecticut, where he owns a $17 million estate and his children attended school. In the final week before Tuesday’s primary, Mr. Michels said he would consider signing legislation to claw back Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes — something for which there is no legal mechanism. Mr. Michels called the search “a political witch hunt,” while Ms. Kleefisch said it was “shocking and unprecedented.” When the former president demanded last summer that the state review its election results, Mr. Vos instead appointed a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, Michael Gableman, to pursue a state-funded investigation of his own. Then, in April, Mr. Michels entered the race. Ms. Gray campaigned as a liberal conciliator, more willing to work among the moderate figures in her party. Mr. Vos resisted the proposal, including in multiple conversations with the former president. He pledged to consider signing legislation that would overturn Mr. Trump’s defeat to Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Wisconsin and withdraw the state’s 10 electoral votes — a move that has no basis in state or federal law. Mr. Michels has projected a tough-on-crime stance, pledging to fire the Democratic district attorney in Milwaukee, hire more police officers and increase prison sentences for gun-related crimes. We’d like to thank you for reading The Times and encourage you to support journalism like this by becoming a subscriber. Doing so will give you access to the work of over 1,700 journalists whose mission is to cover the world and make sure you have accurate and impartial information on the most important topics of the day.

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Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District also is hosting a special election Tuesday to fill the remaining months of Rep. Jim Hagedorn’s term. Some Kleefisch voters who spoke with NBC News in the days leading to Tuesday's primary said they were impressed with the work she and Walker did together. Democrats in recent weeks cleared the field for Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, who will face Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, a Trump ally, in another key matchup this fall. In Connecticut, Trump-endorsed Leora Levy had won the GOP Senate primary, NBC News projects. The co-owner of a successful family pipeline construction company, Michels had tread cautiously in the closing weeks of the race, sending mixed messages about how much he was willing to abide Trump’s pressure to back decertification of the state's 2020 election results. In Vermont’s at-large congressional district, Democratic state Sen. Becca Balint will face Republican Liam Madden, NBC News projects. Republicans also nominated Jim Schultz, a political newcomer, to face Attorney General Keith Ellison this fall. State Rep. Tim Ramthun, who has vowed to challenge the results, finished in a distant third place. “They have been left behind by the Democratic Party that just wants to focus on the social issues,” Michels said. As Michels skated out to a lead, an increasingly amped-up audience broke into sporadic and enthusiastic chants of “U-S-A” and celebratory screams. It’s another swing state victory for Trump, who continues to lie about his losses in Wisconsin and other battlegrounds in 2020 while aiming to install allies he hopes will be loyal if he mounts another White House bid in 2024. Michels and Kleefisch had both echoed Trump’s debunked claims of voter fraud during the primary.

Wisconsin GOP gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels, who has been endorsed in the race by former President Donald Trump, has won Wisconsin's Republican primary ...

Some Kleefisch voters who spoke with NBC News in the days leading to Tuesday's primary said they were impressed with the work she and Walker did together. The co-owner of a successful family pipeline construction company, Michels had tread cautiously in the closing weeks of the race, sending mixed messages about how much he was willing to abide Trump's pressure to back decertification of the state's 2020 election results. Michels and Kleefisch had both echoed Trump's debunked claims of voter fraud during the primary. State Rep. Tim Ramthun, who has vowed to challenge the results, finished in a distant third place. Michels has embraced Trump's debunked claims that a second term was stolen from him. Michels is the latest Trump-endorsed candidate for governor to advance to the general election in a battleground narrowly won by Biden in 2020, joining Kari Lake in Arizona, Tudor Dixon in Michigan and Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania. Trump's efforts to unseat Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican who refused to overturn the state's election results, failed in a primary this year.