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Glenn Kirschner Says the Chances of Trump Being Charged Just Increased ‘Exponentially’ Following FBI Search

With the search conducted by the FBI on Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump’s chances of being criminally prosecuted have jumped “exponentially” higher, according to a former federal prosecutor, Newsweek reports.

Glenn Kirschner, who now serves as a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, is a former federal prosecutor with 30 years of experience, and on his YouTube channel following Monday’s developments told his audience a “legal barrier has been broken” because of the search warrant that was executed on Trump’s Florida home.

“I think the odds that Donald Trump will be criminally charged with the crimes we know he’s committed—we’ve seen the evidence of it with our own eyes in the J6 Committee hearings and elsewhere—I think this exponentially increases the odds that he will be criminally charged with the crimes he committed against the United States,” Kirschner said.

But he also suggests we need to be cautious because the situation isn’t going to unfold quickly. (Of course, we have already figured that part out.)

“I don’t want us to get our hopes up that charges will be coming tomorrow or next week or next month just because Donald Trump’s home was searched by FBI agents,” Kirschner added. But he’s hoping the DOJ “will engage in some kind of transparency sooner rather than later that tells us all what the lawful basis for the search warrant was, without divulging information that would impact or impair an ongoing investigation.”

Kirschner made sure to note that the FBI search was not a “raid” but was a legally authorized action. An unnamed federal judge signed off on the search warrant, he said, adding that the judge in question “had to conclude there was evidence there was some evidence of crime right now located on the property of Mar-a-Lago.” This conclusion comes from an affidavit that supports the evidence of possible crimes, Newsweek reports.

“We can assume they have recovered evidence,” Kirschner explained. “We don’t know what that evidence pertains to yet, what federal crimes that evidence may be part of. But I think we can conclude they seized evidence.”

Kirschner, like many others, believes the evidence is likely related to classified documents related to the National Archives and Records Administration. Last January that agency informed the House Oversight Committee that Trump returned roughly 15 boxes containing classified national security documents that were allegedly taken from the White House when he left office in January 2021. This is something that could result in a five-year felony, Kirschner said at the time.

“That is something we’ve known about for a very long time,” he noted Monday. “It feels like there must be something more at play with respect to this dramatic step, the first search warrant of a former president’s home other than collecting just some stray documents.”

So, as the old cliche goes: “The plot is thickening.” It’s kind of exciting to see everything come down this way. And it’s exactly what Trump deserves.

Here’s more of what Kirschner had to say below.

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