Allies of former President Donald Trump, alarmed and shocked by the details in the unsealed Mar-a-Lago search warrant and receipt of goods, are starting to distance themselves and "go dark" in recent days, according to The Washington Post political investigative reporter Josh Dawsey.
"Alarm has grown in recent days when you talk to advisers of the former president," said Dawsey, speaking on MSNBC on Friday night, per HuffPost.
Some of them are now "trying to go dark," refusing to defend Trump, and hope to "stay as far away from this as they can," Dawsey said.
Dawsey said that certain advisers expressed "shock" when the Mar-a-Lago raid took place on Monday. But, as more details emerged about the extent of what Trump was keeping there, that shock turned to alarm, he added.
Indeed, the Freedom Caucus of conservative Republican members of the House of Representatives hastily canceled a press conference on Friday to discuss the FBI search of Trump's Florida estate. The decision followed after Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that he had asked a court to unseal the FBI search warrant.
Dawsey said that there were people in Trump's orbit "who are pretty close to him" who are "somewhat in the dark" about what's going on behind the scenes.
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