Durbin reacts to FBI raid on former president Donald Trump’s Florida estate

Posted on August 10, 2022

By Dave Dahl

SPRINGFIELD – U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is defending the FBI’s raid on former president Donald Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago.

“I feel certain, not knowing any details directly, that they wouldn’t have taken an historic and monumental step without thoughtful consideration and checking all the boxes,” Durbin said at an unrelated news conference Tuesday outside his office in Springfield. “What it means, I can’t say, in terms of what they are investigating or his liability for anything at this point, but it sounds as if they followed the book, every single line of it.”

To those who have said, “What about Hunter Biden?,” Durbin notes the U.S. attorney in Delaware is the one chosen by the Trump administration – no change in the person tasked with investigating the President’s son.

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