What’s behind the FBI swoop on Donald Trump’s Florida home?

Whether the DOJ is no longer scared of the Republicans, or the January 6 hearings have changed things, Trump is the subject of a serious criminal inquiry, writes Moira Donegan

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.