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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.

Undeterred by the Mar-a-Lago raid, supporters rally for Trump. People were showing up to show support for the former president and criticize the FBI raid.

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After a summer of intense criticism, Merrick Garland's Justice Department takes its boldest step yet in pursuit of the former president.

If nothing else, the search of Trump’s home, which would’ve had to have been authorized at the highest levels of the Justice Department, is a stark reminder that the department can take certain steps — like preparing for a historically unprecedented search of a former president’s property — outside of public view. He also did not disclose the fact that the Justice Department had evidently been at his home months earlier attempting to work cooperatively with him and his lawyers, which substantially undercuts any suggestion, as Trump put it, of “prosecutorial misconduct,” much less “the weaponization of the justice system” or “an attack by radical left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for president in 2024.” The first sentence of his statement claimed that Mar-a-Lago was “currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents,” but the agents who conducted the search appear to have been gone by the time the statement went out. In much more routine criminal investigative settings, this happens from time to time when the Justice Department has first tried to obtain voluntary cooperation from someone but feels like it may have hit a wall and perhaps no longer trusts the lawyers or the party it has been dealing with. One possibility (among many) that has been bandied about is that the search concerns more than just classified documents, but at the moment, there is no serious reporting to suggest that is the case. On Monday, to put it as gently as possible, a former president’s home was involuntarily searched for evidence of criminal conduct and so far as anyone can tell, nothing like it has ever happened before in this country.

Republicans rally in defence of the former president and condemn the FBI search as Democrats say no one is above the law. Donald Trump. Republicans have ...

Lauren Boebert, a right-wing lawmaker, compared the FBI search to the conduct of the secret Nazi police. Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, a top House Republican, called it a “dark day in American history”. No one at the White House was given a heads up,” Jean-Pierre told reporters, adding that Biden believes that Justice Department investigations should be “free from political influence”. In February, the National Archives retrieved 15 boxes of White House documents relating to Trump’s presidency from Mar-a-Lago that included classified materials. “I’ve seen enough,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said in a statement. “No person is above the law – not even the president of the United States, not even a former president of the United States,” Pelosi told the Today Show on NBC.

Yesterday, the FBI raided Donald Trump's home in Florida – a heavy-handed move that has put new energy into his base of true believers and radical ...

But we are still waiting for one or both of those expected events to take place: Donald Trump announcing he is running for president again and him being charged with something by the Attorney General. But not the only figure. So why come in now with a full-on raid? Which is true. A radical move by the Justice Department and this is a radical move, will have its counterpart in the radical populist movement that Mr Trump rode to the White House in 2016. Please review their details and accept them to load the content. But Donald Trump has not been idly letting the Committee narrative seize the high ground: he has been very active in engagements across the country staking out his own version of events, a version that casts him as the victim of a vindictive "deep state" that is engaged in a campaign of "persecution" of Mr Trump aimed at blocking his route to the nomination. But no other President has been involved in conduct like Mr Trump that have led to so many investigations by so many Federal and State Agencies. The whole situation is unprecedented, not just the raid by the FBI. Is it simply a case of Federal Agencies plodding their way through the rules and regulations – or is the fact of breaking new ground and getting a judge to sign a search warrant for the home of a former President of the United States a sign that there is a lot more to this than just a few documents that should have been in the Archives in Washington, not the archives in Mar-a-Lago? A group of federal officials had visited Mar-a-Lago at the start of June to inspect the storage conditions of the documents which they were in negotiations with Mr Trump and his lawyers to recover. Mr Trump and his organisation have denied all allegations of wrongdoing and there is the inquiry by the House Oversight Committee into documents which Mr Trump removed from the White House on his departure from office, which belong in the National Archive to preserve the historic record. Mr Trump was in the Trump Tower in New York, so could not have got down to Florida to frustrate the execution of the subpoena, he argued.

The FBI search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate raises questions about whether a statute that.

But prosecutions close to Election Day are not unheard of: Officials announced the indictment against Caspar Weinberger, the former defense secretary under President Ronald Reagan, for misleading Congress in June 1992, but a judge threw out the indictment. Eugene Debs, convicted of violating the Espionage Act of 1917 for an anti-war speech, was in a federal prison when he ran for president as a socialist in 1920. The memo does not expressly ban the filing of charges but says prosecutors should consult public integrity guidelines. "That statute cannot trump the Constitution, which sets the exclusive qualifications for President," Hasen wrote on his election law blog. A previous case suggests the defendant must know that the documents are public records. That’s why it was surprising when FBI director James Comey during the final days of the 2016 campaign apprised lawmakers of new emails potentially relevant to the investigation of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Lyndon LaRouche was convicted in 1988 of tax and mail fraud conspiracy and ran for president multiple times between 1976 and 2004. The Constitution's list of criteria to run for president mentions only age, citizenship and residency — there is no mention of criminal charges or convictions. Social media users noted that the FBI executed the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8, the same day that President Richard Nixon announced his resignation in 1974. Federal statute 18 U.S. Code 2071 had long banned the removal, concealment or destruction of presidential records. Whether Trump is ultimately charged by prosecutors is a matter of speculation. Spokespersons for the FBI and Justice Department told PolitiFact they had no comment.

Also, a deadly flood in Seoul and a tense presidential election in Kenya.

And the moment has yet to come to an end. Their nostalgia has effectively fueled the continuing relevance of a franchise that might have otherwise faded into quirky obsolescence, becoming another He-Man or Garbage Pail Kids. Within the first four years of what came to be called Turtlemania, more than $1 billion of Turtles toys were sold worldwide, making them the third-best-selling toy franchise ever at that time. Ninja Turtles felt extremely of the moment. History: Elections in Kenya have turned violent in the past, and some Kenyans were apprehensive about voting. (A third candidate, George Wajackoyah, is not likely to win but could push the vote to a second round.) Since its inception, the franchise has repeatedly reinvented itself with new iterations: live-action features, after-school cartoons, video games, graphic novels. Context: The low-lying southern districts of Seoul have often been vulnerable to floods. Aides to President Biden said they were stunned when they learned about the search on Twitter. Such materials must be handed over to the National Archives. His running mate, Martha Karua, would be Kenya’s first female vice president. Ruto is the self-proclaimed embodiment of Kenya’s “hustler nation.” Odinga, the smiling eminence of Kenyan politics and a perennial outsider, would be the first member of the Luo ethnic group to be president.

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The US Justice department is remaining tight-lipped about the search, but it is claimed the former president took boxes from the White House to his home in ...

The NARA then referred the case to the US Justice Department to probe whether Mr Trump's unauthorised handling of the documents amounted to a violation of federal law. The search of Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is part of an investigation into whether he took classified records from the White House to his Florida residence. Former senior Justice Department officials have testified at the inquiry into the 6 January riots at the US Capitol building that Mr Perry had "an important role" in Mr Trump's effort to try to install Jeffrey Clark - a top Justice official who was pushing Mr Trump's baseless claims of election fraud - as the acting attorney general.

The multiple investigations concerning the former president have gained fresh attention after the FBI raided former President Donald Trump's Florida home.

The FBI move marked a stunning escalation of legal probes into the 45th president and comes as he is weighing another White House run.

Trump's former vice president Mike Pence, a potential 2024 rival, expressed "deep concern" and said the raid smacked of "partisanship" by the Justice Department. He denounced the FBI raid as a "weaponisation of the Justice System" by "Radical Left Democrats who desperately don't want me to run for President in 2024." Trump has also faced intense legal scrutiny for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and over the 6 January attack on the US Capitol by his supporters. "Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before," Trump said of the FBI operation at his Mar-a-Lago resort in West Palm Beach. The FBI move marked a stunning escalation of legal probes into the 45th president and comes as he is weighing another White House run. The FBI move marked a stunning escalation of legal probes into the 45th president and comes as he is weighing another White House run.

Donald Trump said on Monday that FBI agents had raided his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida, and had even broke into his personal safe.

The Presidential Records Act requires that all official documents of the President, apart from personal documents like diaries and journals, be given to the US National Archives at the end of the presidential term. CNN quoted the former President’s son Eric Trump as telling Fox News that the “the purpose of the raid…(was to) corroborate whether or not Donald Trump had any documents in his possession.” Many Republican Party leaders condemned the FBI action as politically motivated, and suggested that they could retaliate against Democrats and enforcement agencies if they came to control Congress after November’s midterm elections. According to a Congressional Research Service report cited by The New York Times, the law was introduced after it emerged that President Richard Nixon had attempted to destroy White House recordings that documented his response to the Watergate scandal. American media reported the search was part of an investigation into the potential mishandling of presidential documents that Trump had brought to his residence after leaving office in January 2021. CNN said the agents were seeking to examine the boxes of documents that had been taken from the White House, and to determine where they were kept.

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Cory Allan Martin, 26, Draper, said he tried to kill a spider with a lighter and started a fire. The 26-year-old, Cory Allan Martin, was charged with reckless burning and drug-related charges. He was booked by for reckless burning, possession of marijuana/paraphernalia.

Search warrant executed by FBI agents suggests investigation comes with potentially far-reaching political ramifications for former president.

Trump was not there at the time of the raid and learned about it while he was in New York. The justice department is understood, at some point since the investigation was opened in April this year, to have asked for the return of classified materials. Corcoran declined to comment. The officials asked to see where the White House records were being kept. For years, Trump has ignored the statute. And the extraordinary search, the sources said, came after the justice department grew concerned – as a result of discussions with Trump’s lawyers in recent weeks – that presidential and classified materials were being unlawfully and improperly kept at the Mar-a-Lago resort.

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Cory Allan Martin, 26, Draper, said he tried to kill a spider with a lighter and started a fire. The 26-year-old, Cory Allan Martin, was charged with reckless burning and drug-related charges. He was booked by for reckless burning, possession of marijuana/paraphernalia.

Former President Donald Trump is expected to be deposed by lawyers from New York Attorney General Letitia James' office Wednesday, people familiar with the ...

"I would give my opinion," Trump said in the deposition. Last year he provided videotaped testimony for a lawsuit involving an assault outside of Trump Tower. The case is set to go to trial in the fall. A special grand jury hearing evidence in the case expired in April, but a new one could be seated in the future. "I think everybody" exaggerates about the value of their properties, he testified, adding: "Who wouldn't?" In his statement Wednesday, Trump said, "Now I know the answer to that question" and decried James' investigation. James left at the lunch break and Trump shook her hand as she was leaving. Trump said in a post on Truth Social earlier Wednesday morning that he would be "seeing" James "for a continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt in U.S. history! Under oath, Trump confirmed that he wanted to testify but he would not answer questions, citing his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. When an individual declines to answer a question by "taking the Fifth," he or she invokes that right. Another consideration that had been discussed, the people familiar say, is the political implications of not answering questions as Trump is widely expected to announce that he will run for president in 2024. The Fifth Amendment guarantees that an individual cannot be compelled by the government to provide information that might be incriminating against themselves. But once the questioning began, with the state attorneys saying he could repeat the "same answer," the atmosphere turned professional and cordial.

Trump is set to be grilled in Manhattan by lawyers for New York's attorney general, Letitia James. James has accused Trump of misstating property values to win ...

But those dates were delayed with the attorney general's consent because of Ivana Trump's death on July 14. Not long after Insider's story published, Trump suggested on his social-media platform, Truth Social, that the deposition would go ahead Wednesday. Trump will be grilled in person in Manhattan on what New York's attorney general, Letitia James, has alleged is a decade-long pattern of financial misstatements on documents used by the Trump Organization to win hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks and bank loans.

Simultaneously, the Manhattan District Attorney has running a parallel criminal investigation. Mr Trump has confirmed he will testify in the New York Attorney- ...

Mr Trump and two of his adult children, Donald Trump Jr and Ivanka Trump, fought to avoid testifying but lost. - Mr Trump and two of his adult children, Donald Trump Jr and Ivanka Trump, fought to avoid testifying but lost Former US president Donald Trump says he invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer questions during an appearance before the New York Attorney-General in a civil investigation into his family's business practices.

The former president's long-sought testimony marks a turning point in a civil investigation into his business practices.

In his April remarks on the matter, Mr. Bragg said new witnesses had been questioned and additional documents had been reviewed, although he declined to provide details. In January, Mr. Trump asked a judge in New York to strike down a subpoena from Ms. James seeking his testimony and personal documents. While Ms. James has contended in court papers that the Trump Organization provided bogus valuations to banks to secure favorable loans, Mr. Trump’s lawyers might argue that those were sophisticated financial institutions that turned a hefty profit from their dealings with Mr. Trump. But if she ultimately sues Mr. Trump — and if Ms. James prevails at trial — a judge could impose steep financial penalties on Mr. Trump and restrict his business operations in New York. Two days after his home was searched by the F.B.I. in an unrelated investigation, Mr. Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment right while openly questioning the legitimacy of the legal process — as he has with the nation’s electoral system — and insulting a law enforcement official sitting just a few feet away. If Mr. Trump deviates from his plan to remain quiet, the attorney general’s office could argue that he opened the door to answering some questions and they may later ask a judge to compel him to answer. A misstep by Mr. Trump would have been a boon for Manhattan prosecutors, but it is unlikely that they were counting solely on the interview to change the course of their investigation. For years, the district attorney’s office has been investigating whether Mr. Trump fraudulently inflated the value of his properties to gain loans and tax breaks, and prosecutors were presenting evidence to a grand jury in the case early this year. Relying mostly on footage from a rally Mr. Trump held last month in Alaska, the video features his America-in-decline message that has become mostly standard boilerplate in his speeches and rallies. It was not the first time, however, that Mr. Trump had taken the fifth in a civil proceeding. Ms. James would most likely seek a settlement that includes some financial penalty for Mr. Trump and that possibly forces his company to adopt changes to the ways it operates. Now, he’s doing so with the New York attorney general because “it’s legally useful to him to do so and two, he knows painting himself as the victim is powerful to people in his camp,” Mr. O’Brien said.

Donald Trump says he will sit for a deposition by the office of Attorney General Letitia James, who is examining his business practices and property ...

Congressional hearings: The House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol has conducted a series of hearings to share its findings with the U.S. public. This person said Pompeo was asked about the 25th Amendment, which allows for the removal of a president if they are unfit for duty, among other topics. And the work of the House panel probing Jan. 6 continues. The former president has a week to appeal the ruling before it takes effect. “This is one of the best outcomes they could have hoped for going into this,” said Snell, who worked on the state’s case against Trump University, which resulted in a $25 million settlement. The Fifth Amendment is invoked when there is a possibility of incriminating oneself in criminal activity. Separately, Trump partisans have come under scrutiny in an investigation by local authorities in Georgia about his efforts to overturn the state’s election results. Incredibly, his deposition marked just the halfway point of what has been a frenetic week for Trump and his lawyers. Trump emerged from the question-and-non-answer session with praise for the “very professional” way Attorney General Letitia James’s team handled the meeting, in which he refused more than 400 times to answer questions about his businesses, property valuations and loans, according to a person with knowledge of the discussion. James could file a lawsuit against the Trump Organization and its executives if she concludes that their conduct legally amounted to wrongdoing. Their brother Eric Trump, who was also a lieutenant in the company, took the Fifth more than 500 times when he sat for questioning in October 2020 in the same investigation, according to public disclosures made by James. Then, on Wednesday morning, Trump arrived at a Manhattan office building to be deposed in James’s investigation of his business dealings.

Former President Donald Trump will be questioned under oath Wednesday in the New York attorney general's civil investigation into his dealings as a real ...

In May, James’ office said that it was nearing the end of an investigation against Trump, his company or both. The top prosecutor who had been handling the probe resigned after Bragg raised questions internally about the viability of the case. The people were not authorized to speak publicly and did so on condition of anonymity. Trump has undergone many depositions, dating to his career as a real estate developer. “I once asked, ‘If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?’ Now I know the answer to that question,” the statement said. James, a Democrat, is the first Black person to hold her post.

Former US president Donald Trump disclosed on Monday that the FBI searched his home at Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach.

“No, the president was not briefed, was not aware of it. A former US government attorney with national security expertise said a relatively simple case could be brought forward involving Trump's removal of the classified documents. “Their job is to conduct investigations in accordance with the law and to not prejudice the rights of the people they are investigating while they do it,” said former federal prosecutor Kristy Parker.

Donald Trump looks set to be deposed Wednesday in New York as part of the state attorney general's civil probe into alleged fraud at his family business,

James’s probe is one of several legal battles in which Trump is embroiled, threatening to complicate any bid for another run for the White House in 2024. Banana Republic!” Donald Trump looks set to be deposed Wednesday in New York as part of the state attorney general’s civil probe into alleged fraud at his family business, the ex-president said on his social media network.

Two of Trump's children, Donald Jr and Ivanka, are believed to have testified in the investigation in recent days.

However, it ran into problems after a new district attorney, Alvin Bragg, raised questions internally about the viability of the case, and its lead prosecutors resigned. Trump’s testimony was initially scheduled for last month but was delayed after the 14 July death of his ex-wife Ivana Trump. He declined to answer questions about the hours-long search Monday at Mar-a-Lago. Fischetti added that Trump’s decision to take the fifth had been made shortly before the interview started. “[She] will pursue the facts and the law wherever they may lead. Trump’s deposition, which took place in lower Manhattan, appears to have lasted roughly four hours.

New York — Here is an outline of the legal problems Donald Trump might face over his removal from the White House of official presidential records that his ...

Samuel Berger, a US national security adviser to former president Bill Clinton, pleaded guilty in 2005 to unauthorised removal and retention of classified material. He was sentenced to two years of probation and ordered to pay a $100,000 fine. Federal law makes it illegal to intentionally take classified documents to an unauthorised location. Trump could argue the documents he took were exempt. Reuters was unable to learn more details about the documents Eric Trump cited. A Trump spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.

Civil investigation is probing whether ex-president's company misled lenders and tax authorities in valuing assets.

Beyond the FBI and New York probes, Trump faces an investigation in Georgia into whether he committed election fraud and other offences in pressuring the state’s attorney general to “find” votes following his 2020 presidential election loss. It is expected to be closely watched by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, which has been pursuing a parallel criminal investigation into the Trump Organization’s business dealings. James’s office had subpoenaed Trump in January.

Former US President Donald Trump is set to testify under oath on Wednesday in the New York attorney general's civil investigation into his business ...

Seeing racist N.Y.S. Attorney General tomorrow, for a continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt in U.S. history! This was all reportedly done to reduce tax burden, secure favorable loan terms from banks or to simply justify his place among billionaires across the world, Letitia James has alleged. "I declined to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution," Trump said in a statement. Former US President Donald Trump has said that he declined to answer questions while appearing under oath in a New York state attorney general's civil probe into alleged fraud at his family business. The investigation into his real estate business practices, which Trump has termed a ‘witch hunt’, is led by Attorney General Letitia James. Allegations against the Trump Organization include misstating the value of assets like golf courses and skyscrapers and misleading lenders and tax authorities. Photograph:( The New York Times )

Donald Trump arrived for questioning under oath in the New York state attorney general's civil probe into alleged fraud at his family business.

James is conducting "a continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt in U.S. history!" Banana Republic!" "My great company, and myself, are being attacked from all sides.

NEW YORK (AP) - Former President Donald Trump showed up Wednesday for questioning under oath in New York's civil investigation into his business practices.

In the past, Trump has repeatedly suggested that only people with something to hide avail themselves of the protection against self-incrimination. In a criminal case, prosecutors can't comment on a defendant's refusal to testify, and a jury can't be advised that it's OK to take defendants' silence as a sign of guilt. The defendants have pleaded not guilty in that case, which involves claims of off-the-books compensation. James has said her investigation found evidence that the businessman-turned-politician's company, called the Trump Organization, puffed up the value of real estate assets to snag loans, insurance and tax breaks for land donations. The Supreme Court has said that allowing that inference penalizes defendants for simply availing themselves of a constitutional protection. But even deciding to answer selectively could be risky: Responding to one question can enable the other side to argue that the witness can't refuse to answer other, related questions. Donald Jr. and Ivanka reportedly gave their depositions recently, and it's yet unclear whether they took the Fifth. The Supreme Court has even held that Fifth Amendment rights protected the jobs of public employees who were fired after refusing to testify in investigations unless they got immunity from prosecution. It's a constitutional right that gets high-profile exposure in settings from Congress to TV crime shows, but there are nuances. But it has come to apply in non-criminal contexts, too. There are sometimes disputes over whether the right is being invoked inappropriately. The ex-president issued a statement saying he had done nothing wrong but was invoking the Fifth Amendment's protection against self-incrimination.

It's been quite the rough week not only for Donald Trump but for the entire GOP, as their biggest hope to win back the presidency is finally under ...

But it didn't end there, Trump was spotted in New York City on Wednesday to be deposed by a judge in Federal Court. Trump himself was the one who alerted all the media about an alleged raid but the agents who conducted the search had warrants from the highest levels of government. Initially, there was a lot of confusion to why the FBI agents searched the former president's Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida.

NEW YORK — Donald Trump invoked the Fifth Amendment and wouldn't answer questions under oath in the New York attorney general's long-running civil ...

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump leaves Trump Tower to meet with New York Attorney General Letitia James for a civil investigation on August 10, 2022 in New ...

Legal experts say Trump's lawyers are in possession of a copy of that search warrant and that they can disclose its contents if they choose. In other words, James could argue to a jury that it should assume Trump has conceded her claims against him by refusing to answer her questions. But after failing in court efforts to block those subpoenas, Donald Jr. and Ivanka answered questions from James' investigators last week, NBC previously reported. "So there are five people taking the Fifth Amendment. Like you see on the mob, right? Fischetti described the mood in the room as polite and not tense. In Georgia, a special state grand jury is investigating possible criminal efforts by Trump and others to interfere in the 2020 presidential election in that state as part of a nationwide push to overturn Biden's victory in the race for the White House. On Tuesday, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., upheld a lower court ruling dismissing an effort by Trump to block the House Ways and Means Committee from obtaining several years of his federal income tax returns and those of a number of Trump business entities from the Treasury Department. In addition to the probe of records at Mar-a-Lago, the Justice Department is reportedly investigating events leading to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot by thousands of Trump supporters, who for hours disrupted the confirmation of Biden's electoral victory by a joint session of Congress. The warrant and a related affidavit in support of it would detail what the FBI was looking for and how the agency believed there was probable cause that a crime or crimes had been committed that related to that evidence. Our investigation continues." But Engoron went on to note that a jury in a civil case is allowed to draw "a negative inference" when a party to the case "invokes that right against self-incrimination." Former President Donald Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment right more than 440 times Wednesday in refusing to answer questions at a deposition by lawyers for New York Attorney General Letitia James, who is investigating the Trump Organization's business practices, a source with knowledge of the session told NBC News.

Donald Trump cried foul on Monday after FBI agents searched his residence at the Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, while his fellow Republicans have rushed to ...