Could the FBI use documents seized at Mar-a-Lago related to other Trump-linked probes?
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Documents seized by the FBI at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate could be used as evidence in federal probes into Jan. 6 and other crimes in certain cases.
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Legal scholars say the Justice Department's search warrant for the raid was broad enough to include anything generated during Trump's four-year tenure in the White House.
"The federal government, I think, had reason to believe that the documents at Mar-a-Lago were those generated in the last weeks and months of the Trump administration," said Andrew McCarthy, a columnist for National Review and former federal prosecutor. "This is the stuff that you would want to comb through if you were investigating Jan. 6, or crimes related to Jan. 6."