Tue 09 August 2022:
Former US President Donald Trump said Monday that his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida was being raided by the FBI, decrying the unprecedented “assault.”
In a statement posted on his Truth Social network, Trump said his “beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents.”
Aerial footage of Mar-a-Lago showed police cars outside the property. Supporters of the ex-US leader also gathered outside, waving banners with Trump’s name or American flags emblazoned with his face.
“It is prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for President in 2024,” said Trump, who was not present during the raid, according to The New York Times.
Trump slammed the unannounced visit, saying “such an assault could only take place in broken, Third-World countries.”
He went on to say that the US has now become one of those countries, “corrupt at a level not seen before.”
“They even broke into my safe!” the former president claimed, lamenting that “nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before.”
Trump accused his opponents of prosecutorial misconduct and weaponizing the justice system.
Natasha Bertrand, a CNN reporter, said on Twitter that the search appeared to be focused on material that Trump “had brought with him to Mar-a-Lago,” citing two people allegedly familiar with the investigation.
The National Archives said in February it had recovered 15 boxes of documents from Trump’s Florida estate, which The Washington Post reported included highly classified texts, taken with him when he left Washington following his reelection defeat.
The documents and mementos — which also included correspondence from ex-US president Barack Obama — should by law have been turned over at the end of Trump’s presidency but instead ended up at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
The recovery of the boxes raised questions about Trump’s adherence to presidential records laws enacted after the 1970s Watergate scandal that require Oval Office occupants to preserve records related to administration activity.
The Archives had requested then that the Justice Department open a probe into Trump’s practices.
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