Tue 16 August 2022:
Donald Trump asserted on Monday that FBI agents “stole” his passports during the August 8 search, a day after asking the Department of Justice to hand over the records protected by the attorney-client privilege.
“Wow! In the raid by the FBI of Mar-a-Lago, they stole my three Passports (one expired), along with everything else,” said Trump on his social media platform.
The Republican leader further added, “This is an assault on a political opponent at a level never seen before in our Country. Third World!”
Trump, however, did not make it clear which one of his passports was taken away by the FBI. A blue passport is issued to regular civilians in the USA while a red ‘diplomatic’ passport is issued for official government travel.
Trump’s insistence to compare the incident to World War 3 and an assault on him follows a similar line that he has been following ever since the raid took place.
After the raid, Trump issued a public statement where he complained that the FBI officers had broken into his safe. He also added that the raid by the FBI on his house was a weaponisation of the Justice System.
“It is prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponisation of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for President in 2024, especially based on recent polls, and who will likewise do anything to stop Republicans and Conservatives in the upcoming Midterm Elections.” said Trump.
After Trump’s statement, the issue gained momentum, forcing Public Attorney General Merrick Garland to announce that his lawyers had moved a motion to unseal portions of the search warrant, observing public’s ‘clear’ and ‘powerful’ interest in the case.
Trump, however, claimed on Sunday that the Justice Department had taken boxes of documents protected by the attorney-client or executive privilege and asked them to return them.
Trump’s side claims that material found in the boxes marked A-14, A-26, A-43, A-13, and A-33 was subject to the attorney-client privilege.
It’s important to point out that the FBI also carried a few document boxes with the designation “TS/SCI.” These documents are classified as top-secret and confidential, which means that they could ‘exceptionally grave’ US national security.
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