2 former federal prosecutors with 25+ years experience :
The most pertinent question still outstanding is on what grounds the FBI conducted the raid. As we've said, both the DOJ and FBI remain tight-lipped on the specifics.
According to Stern and Rossi, however, the authorities would not have moved on Mar-a-Lago without substantive grounds for doing so.
"In order for a search warrant to be signed by a judge, the judge must have determined that Trump's house would more likely than not contain evidence of a crime—that's called the probable cause standard. You can also say 'would probably contain evidence of a crime,'" Stern said.
Rossi, in turn, said that the prosecutors must have a tremendous amount of probable cause "that someone, likely Donald Trump, has committed a federal crime or several crimes, and I don't buy the argument that the affidavit only talks about classified documents."
"I'm sure that affidavit includes a lot more than just classified documents. I can't help but believe that there are other crimes listed on the search warrant," Rossi added.