The FBI search of Donald Trump’s Florida home has put the state’s senior senator exactly where he doesn’t want to be two months before Election Day.
Publicly, Marco Rubio is joining other Republicans in questioning the Justice Department’s grounds for seeking a warrant to search Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, and downplaying the investigation as a “storage” issue. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images
“The people who hate Donald Trump are happy about the raid. The people who support him were not,” Rubio said in an interview, putting himself in a third category: “A lot of other people are wondering about the wisdom of undertaking such an effort, an unprecedented effort, before having exhausted every other opportunity or every other potential option they would have.”
But Warner also took aim at one of Rubio’s central contentions — that the documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago might not be classified because intelligence officials never informed congressional leaders that some of the materials were missing in the first place. Some Republicans have cited the absence of a briefing or notification of a potential national security threat in the earlier stages of the legal fight between Trump’s lawyers and DOJ in downplaying recent reports that among the materials Trump hung onto were nuclear-related documents.
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