The Justice Department has offered Trump aide Kash Patel an immunity deal to testify before a grand jury probing former Pres. Trump's mishandling of documents marked as classified found at Mar-a-Lago, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
November 2, 2022, 10:46 PMFormer Chief of Staff to the Department of Defense Kash Patel speaks during a campaign rally at Minden-Tahoe Airport on Oct. 8, 2022 in Minden, Nevada.The Justice Department has offered Trump aide Kash Patel an immunity deal to testify before a grand jury probing former President Donald Trump's mishandling of documents marked as classified found at Mar-a-Lago, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
The immunity deal for Patel wouldn't necessarily shield him from prosecution and wouldn't protect him from any information investigators receive independent of his testimony. But experts argue the extension of an immunity offer, nonetheless, could signal the advanced stage the investigation is currently in and how investigators are increasingly zeroing in on Trump's attempts to hold on to documents that were among the most highly protected government intelligence.
On Aug. 9, the day after FBI agents raided Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate and found scores of documents marked classified, Patel issued a statement calling the raid "unlawful" and saying "corrupt government gangsters" had engaged in "the blatant weaponization of our government for political gain."
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