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A new poll conducted by Harvard shows the majority of Americans believe the federal indictment of President Donald Trump is politically motivated.
Registered voters agreed that the criminal indictment against Trump amounts to “election interference.”
55 percent of Americans view the indictment as politically motivated.
56 percent of Americans think the indictment constitutes “interference by the DOJ in the 2024 elections.”
Harvard Harris Poll:
— 55% of Americans say Trump's indictment is politically motivated, (including 83% of Republicans and 55% of Independents)
— 56% consider Trump's federal indictment to be an interference by the Justice Department in the 2024 Elections pic.twitter.com/9UtnV0UtD2
— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) June 16, 2023
The poll surveyed Independents, Democrats, and Republicans.
In a recent development, an FBI official is speaking out about major concerns with the government’s raid at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence. Trump currently faces 37 charges in connection to the raid.
The FBI official has been identified as Steven D’Antuono, who served as Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington field office.
D’Antuono noticed “several unusual features” in the handling of the case against Trump.
He also “expressed strong concerns with the Department’s pursuit of the raid” given the handling of case.
Trump has said he is innocent of all of the charges.
President Trump has argued the case is clearly a politically motivated “witch hunt” that is meant to interfere with his 2024 White House run.
Many other politicians held onto classified documents, including Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Mike Pence, but none of them faced charges.
Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio is demanding answers from the FBI. Jordan chairs the House Judiciary Committee.
In a leeter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Jordan gave a deadline to produce “[a]ll documents and communications referring or relating to meetings between FBI and Justice Department officials prior to the execution of the search warrant on President Trump’s private residence.”
Jordan also demanded “[a]ll documents and communications referring or relating to the execution of a search warrant on President Trump’s private residence.”
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) June 9, 2023
“D’Antuono indicated a belief that either you or Director Christopher Wray made the decision to seek a search warrant, despite opposition from the line agents working this case,” the letter to Garland said.
“Mr. D’Antuono believed that the FBI should have worked with the attorney to get consent to search the residence prior to seeking a warrant for the search. Mr. D’Antuono believes that there was a good likelihood that [they] could have gotten consent,” the letter said.
“The indictment creates, at the minimum, a serious appearance of a double standard and a miscarriage of justice,” Jordan wrote.
The letter quoted D’Antuono as predicting the FBI would be “left holding the bag again’” with respect to the search.
According to the letter, D’Antuono indicated that it was a breach of standard procedure to have the Washington field office conduct the search and not the Miami field office.
The letter said D’Antuono said the FBI “learned a lot of stuff from [the] Crossfire Hurricane” investigation, which was the discredited investigation into allegations of links between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia.
The letter said D’Antuono said one principle was that “the [FBI] Headquarters does not work the investigation, it is supposed to be the field offices working the investigations,” the letter said, adding that his “concern is that [the] DOJ was not following the same principles.”
The letter went on to note that the report of Special Counsel John Durham indicated the FBI itself said investigations should be run from the field and not Washington.
Another concern cited was the lack of a U.S. attorney assigned to the raid. The letter said D’Antuono “raised this concern a lot” with Justice Department officials but “never got a good answer.”
The Swamp fears President Trump, and that’s exactly why they’re doing everything possible to stop him.
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) June 13, 2023
