DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said Monday that former President Donald Trump would find it “difficult to prevail” in his potential $100 million suit against the Justice Department over a raid for classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
Trump’s attorneys filed an administrative claim with the Justice Department over the Aug. 8, 2022, raid on Mar-a-Lago and the subsequent indictment secured by special counsel Jack Smith on Monday, a preliminary step before actually suing, that accuses the FBI and DOJ of “malicious political prosecution aimed at affecting an electoral outcome to prevent former President Donald Trump from being reelected,” the New York Post reported.
Turley noted that, like Trump as president, the DOJ has “[its] own form of immunity,” which could come…
