Sources say justice department officials worried records were being held unlawfully at the former president’s Florida estate
residence having obtained a warrant to seek classified and White House records that the US justice department thought Trump had kept unlawfully, two sources previously told the Guardian.agents, intimated that this investigation involving Trump is a strictly criminal inquiry.
Amid the pressure from Republicans, the attorney general, Merrick Garland, on Thursday appeared at a short press conference andto seek a search warrant of Trump’s home and that the decision had not been “taken lightly”. Responding to the reports of an informant, the extremist far-right Republican Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene derided any potential informants as “traitors”.