The Department of Justice put the former president 'slightly above the law,' the legal analyst said Saturday.
's probe into whether he illegally took classified documents when he vacated the White House last year.agents in August raided his Mar-a-Lago property and seized the documents, which may have included another country's nuclear secrets. Trump has maintained his innocence, however, saying that he could declassify the documents without going through a former declassification process.
On Friday, DOJ prosecutors alleged that Trump is still holding onto some of the classified documents, defying orders to produce every single one he allegedly removed from the White House. They requested a federal judge to hold the ex-president in contempt over the documents, according to aAbove, former President Donald Trump speaks at the America First Policy Institute Agenda summit in Washington, D.C. on July 26.
"What they should have done was get a search warrant promptly, get all of the documents they could by searching 's properties. Arrest the perpetrator, Donald Trump. Continue to investigate. And then get supplemental search warrants and continue to try to collect up what Donald Trump has stolen," he said.
Kirschner accused the DOJ of putting Trump"slightly above the law," leaving them in an investigative"quagmire."
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