As US attorney for the Southern District of ​Florida, Quiñones was at the center of Trump’s ​attempts to leverage the Justice Department to exact ⁠revenge on his political adversaries. His office was tasked ​with investigating the criminal probesof Trump’s handling of classified documents ​after he left office in 2021 and his campaign’s contacts with Russia in the 2016 election, among other issues. Those efforts ​have not borne fruit so far.