Trump Feeling 'Walls of Justice' Closing in on Him: Ex-FBI Lawyer

Former FBI lawyer Andrew Weissmann said on Thursday that former president Donald Trump is close to being held accountable after holding on to classified White House documents, which the FBI retrieved last month from his Mar-a-Lago house.

"For the first time, in a long life of being unaccountable to the civil and criminal rules of society, Donald Trump is feeling what it's like to have the walls of justice closing in. Its about time. And it's only going to get more satisfying," Tweeted Weissmann, who is a former Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutor and who served as the General Counsel for the FBI.

Trump has been under the spotlight recently as he is being investigated for taking classified documents from the White House and keeping them at his house in Florida, with some of those documents reportedly containing sensitive information related to nuclear weapons and "highly classified programs."

The FBI search was conducted following the approval of General Attorney Merrick Garland at a time when law enforcement received a tip from an informant who knows the type of documents Trump kept and where he kept them.

The former president has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and said that he declassified the documents he took from the White House, but former justice department official Mary McCord said that he had no authority to do so after leaving office, according to Reuters.

Last month, Weissmann said that Trump will be "prosecuted" for mishandling the classified documents after the FBI search warrant affidavit was unsealed.

Trump might also be facing risk of further federal action if he doesn't confirm that he is not in possession of any other classified materials. The House Oversight Committee recently wrote a letter to the National Archives asking that Trump provide a "written certification" that he returned all documents that were taken from the White House after he left office in January 2021.

The Committee's Chair Representative Carolyn Maloney made that request after Trump's legal team "misled investigators" about the former president holding on to documents at the Mar-a-Lago resort.

Meanwhile, some experts predicted that Trump could also face other potential problems after reports mentioned that his former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows complied with a subpoena under the justice department's investigation of the Capitol riot. Meadows is currently the highest-ranking Trump official to respond to a subpoena in the January 6 investigation.

Meadows gave prosecutors the same documents that the House Select Committee investigating the events leading up to January 6 asked him to provide via a subpoena that was issued to him.

Newsweek reached out to Trump's media office for comment.