‘Very real and very serious’: Donald Trump in legal crosshairs

Fresno CA

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Donald Trump has mocked, dismissed and railed against the FBI and US Department of Justice for the search of his Mar-a-Lago estate this week. But the warrant that was presented to the former president’s attorneys to justify the swoop on his Florida home to retrieve boxes of classified documents he had retained since leaving the White House — and was unsealed on Friday night — showed that US enforcement authorities believe he may have committed crimes related to national security, the mishandling of government material and obstruction of justice. “These potential charges are ultimately very real and very serious. They are felonies with potential sentences of many years in prison,” said Bradley Moss, a lawyer specialising in national security matters at law firm Mark Zaid in Washington.