What’s behind the FBI swoop on Donald Trump’s Florida home?
Former US president Donald Trump gestures as he departs Trump Tower yesterday on his way to the New York attorney general's office for a deposition in a civil investigation. Picture: Julia Nikhinson/AP
It’s remarkable that it didn’t leak.
A story of this magnitude — the FBI raiding the compound of a former president, executing a search warrant in connection with a criminal investigation — is the kind of story that every well-connected reporter in Washington would usually have heard about. But the major papers seemed surprised on Monday night, scrambling to catch up as the story unfolded.
