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Rep. Scott Perry played a key role in Trump’s efforts to overturn election and connected him with Jeffrey Clark

It will be some time before the nation knows exactly what the FBI was looking for, and what it found, during Monday’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home and resort. But the known factors so far all point to a strong presumption of legitimacy for the operation. FBI…

In supporting Trump, his party rivals are inadvertently empowering him to run.

WASHINGTON — Republican leaders in recent years have become increasingly critical of the FBI and Department of Justice.

For much of the past year, cracks in Donald Trump’s political support have been growing: dissatisfied Republican primary voters began to consider new prospects, GOP donors grappled with damaging revelations uncovered by the Jan. 6 committee, and several party leaders pondered challenging Trump for the party’s 2024 nomination. But after…

A federal search warrant like the kind carried out at the home of former President Donald Trump would require detailed evidence and sign-off at the highest levels of the DOJ, legal experts said.

Federal authorities would have needed to meet an extraordinarily high threshold for probable cause to sign off on such a high-profile, politically explosive operation, legal experts say.

For much of the year, small cracks in Donald Trump’s political support have been growing

Based on what we know, there are three major legal takeaways from the FBI’s search of Donald Trump’s Florida home on Monday.