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Todd Blanche concedes 'it was wise to investigate Trump' as DOJ probe spirals: analysis

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Attorney General Todd Blanche has conceded that it was right to investigate President Donald Trump over the classified documents he kept at Mar-a-Lago, a national security journalist wrote Monday. Marcy Wheeler made the argument at emptywheel , pointing to a dispute within the department over where classified evidence can be handled safely. The prosecutor leading the investigation of Trump's critics asked for a high-security room, known in government as a SCIF, at his Florida office. Justice Department officials told him to use an FBI facility miles away, CNN reported Monday. "You've just conceded it was wise to investigate Trump!" Wheeler wrote, saying Blanche had effectively acknowledged the records were "far too sensitive to store in a ballroom." Trump was charged in 2023 with illegally keeping classified records at his Palm Beach estate, where an image included in the indictment showed boxes stacked on a ballroom stage, the Associated Press reported. Blanche was defending Trump at

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