Overview
- At a Dec. 19 event in Rocky Mount, N.C., the president described agents looking through Melania Trump’s closet and “drawers,” detailing her “perfect” undergarments.
- He castigated the agents as “disgusting” “thugs/animals,” said they went into his son’s room, and declared, “We have all the evidence now… we have to do something about it.”
- He raised his compensation demand over federal probes from $230 million to $1 billion, joking about whether he would donate the money or keep it.
- Emails released by Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley show internal exchanges suggesting FBI officials questioned probable cause while the Justice Department maintained it existed for the 2022 warrant.
- Former special prosecutor Jack Smith told lawmakers this week his team had gathered “powerful evidence” in the documents case, which began after NARA flagged missing records and led to agents recovering multiple classified sets, including some marked top secret.