Crenshaw: Trump Wasn’t Even Asked To Give Back Docs

Mediaite reports:

CNN’s Jake Tapper drilled down on Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) — as the congressman attempted to defend Trump over the FBI’s search through Mar-a-Lago. “It’s not a question that it’s bad to have classified material in a non-SCIF environment,” Crenshaw said.

“I still haven’t seen any evidence that Trump was even asked to give these documents back. He’s been cooperating with them on these issues for a while now. Why take it to this extreme extent?”

“But he didn’t turn over boxes and boxes of materials, the Justice Department says,” Tapper pointed out. “But he’s been cooperating, and I think he’s on the record saying whatever you need from us, just ask,” Crenshaw said.

Axios reports:



The FBI’s move to search Mar-a-Lago was “automatically political,” Crenshaw said. Crenshaw lamented what he described as “a long history of loss of credibility at the Department of Justice.”

“This is a very unprecedented measure. You know we’re going after an ex-president who may run again. You cannot separate the legal aspects of this from the political aspects of it. You can’t. And it doesn’t seem to me like they’ve acted responsibly as a result of that.”