This was FBI, not DOJ.If this wasn't tribal, Garland would have appointed Special Counsel to deal with the problem.
And Trump appointed the leader of the FBI.
Trump was warned and the feds visited him months before and had him put a padlock on the room with the documents while this was sorted out.
It was an idiotic thing do by an idiot who still thinks he has absolute power.
Lawyers received instructions to secure Trump's document room months before the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago: report
After federal investigators met with Trump's attorneys, aides added a padlock to the room where documents were stored.
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