Aisha Bakshi

um the statute of limitations hasn't closed for those charges but just hypothetically speaking i don't want to say i know what's going on here because there is a lot of mystery still but hypothetically speaking it could be the case that the federal government is looking into something someone did after that election that relates to that type of charge you know for example you can engage in a in a conspiracy

to violate a federal statute.

And you can do actions in furtherance of a conspiracy even later on, like destroying evidence or lying to federal investigators.

Again, I'm just throwing some thoughts out here about how the government could be saying that it still has time to bring that type of charge.

But the truth is, until we get some more details about what evidence they're looking at and what they're even considering as a potential crime,

It's hard to know how the government would still be able to bring charges, but maybe they have a theory for that.

Well, in terms of recent precedent, a lot of this activity kind of falls out of what we are used to.

If you look at the post Watergate era, basically after the presidency of Richard Nixon, a lot was done both in terms of formal rules and norms and practices within the Justice Department, which includes the FBI, to basically separate the White House from that kind of investigative and law enforcement branch.

And the point of that is that you don't want law enforcement to be inappropriately influenced by what a particular president who's elected and serves a political role wants done.

You want some objectivity to what law enforcement is doing in this country.

And we've seen, this isn't the only example where we've seen those norms kind of erode during the current Trump administration.

I hear you, there's reporting that Donald Trump had a phone call

with his national security intelligence director, Tulsi Gabbard, where she put him on the phone with FBI agents who engaged in this raid.

That appears highly unusual for the president to be involved in the raid.

And frankly, in court, it could create this impression that there is improper political interference in the investigation.

We've seen that be a potential problem for Trump in some other cases.

His Justice Department secured indictments

against some people that he has explicitly targeted.

James Comey, who was his FBI director in his first administration for some time.

Letitia James, the New York Attorney General, who has also sued Donald Trump previously.