Inside the bitter personal battle between top FBI and DOJ officials over Mar-a-Lago

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Trump him­self had greeted Bratt and the FBI agents and promised to cooperate, saying he was "an open book.
48% : Experts said that Trump, to a greater extent than any other president in U.S. history, has successfully discredited the DOJ and FBI in the eyes of large groups of American voters.
45% : They said that Trump and Corcoran had already received a subpoena and been repeatedly asked to return the documents.
43% : After the National Archives repeatedly requested that Trump return the documents, some officials assumed Trump would simply hand over the materials.
43% : At the center of the disagreement were starkly different perceptions of Trump.
40% : Trump had deftly taken advantage of all of these dynamics and been elected to the country's highest office.
40% : In May, Justice Department lawyers had obtained a subpoena that legally required Trump to return all of the classified material.
40% : On Aug. 8, agents dressed in polo shirts and khakis -- not jackets emblazoned with "FBI" -- entered Mar-a-Lago and recovered 102 documents with classification markings that Trump had retained.
39% : D'Antuono saw Trump as most likely motivated by a desire to show off the classified documents.
39% : They said Trump has been treated fairly by the DOJ and FBI and, if anything, received more deference than other defendants.
38% : They questioned a career DOJ prosecutor's political donations to Democrats and what they saw as his aggressive stance toward Trump.
34% : D'Antuono worried that am FBI search of Mar-a-Lago would bolster years of exaggerated claims from Trump that the bureau was politically persecuting him.
34% : When D'Antuono asked if prosecutors now considered Trump the subject of the investigation, Bratt shot back, "What does that matter?" but didn't answer the question.FBI officials from the Washington field office were in open conflict with Bratt and other DOJ prosecutors.
32% : "A week after the search, Fox News host Tucker Carlson suggested that D'Antuono, a skeptic of the search, was part of an FBI plot to get Trump.
31% : "D'Antuono, though, was concerned about the approach of the DOJ team investigating Trump, which Bratt led.
28% : FBI agents have come to politically charged cases as no-win situations that can result in public vilification, the loss of their pensions, and, given Trump's vows of revenge, potential criminal prosecution.
27% : The DOJ and FBI officials were deadlocked over how to retrieve what were believed to be dozens of top-secret documents that Trump had taken from the White House to Mar-a-Lago and declined to return.
27% : In an age of hyperpartisanship, it has proved impossible for the country's most powerful federal law enforcement agencies to criminally investigate Trump or Joe Biden -- and maintain broad public support.
25% : "People saw that charge as 'Aha, is that DOJ's effort to get Trump?'"Other FBI officials did not consider Bratt to be politically biased.
22% : In a statement, Trump lambasted the search, declared it illegal and made numerous false claims, including that his home was "currently under siege" and "occupied by a large group of FBI agents.
19% : They noted that the draft search warrant included a potential criminal charge against Trump that they did not recall seeing before: Section 2071 of Title 18.

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