The FBI is raiding Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump’s resort home in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump said Monday evening.
In a lengthy statement, Trump said his residence is “currently under siege, raided and occupied by a large group of FBI agents.”
The raid was “unannounced,” Trump said, adding, “They even broke into my safe!”
Read the full statement below:
These are dark times for our nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided and occupied by a large group of FBI agents. Nothing like this had ever happened to a President of the United States. After working and cooperating with the relevant government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was neither necessary nor appropriate. It’s 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, especially based on recent polls, and who will also do any something to stop republicans and conservatives. in the next mid-term elections. This assault could only take place in broken Third World countries. Unfortunately, America has now become one of those countries, corrupt on a level never seen before. They even broke into my safe! How is this different from Watergate, where agents broke into the Democratic National Committee? Here, in reverse, the Democrats broke into the home of the 45th President of the United States.
The political persecution of President Donald J. Trump has been going on for years, with the Russia scam, Russia, Russia impeachment hoax no. 1, the impeachment hoax no. 2, now totally debunked, and much more, it never ends. It is a political goal at the highest level!
Hillary Clinton was allowed to delete and acid wash 33,000 emails AFTER they were subpoenaed by Congress. Absolutely nothing has happened to make her responsible. He even took antique furniture and other items from the White House.
I stood up to America’s bureaucratic corruption, restored power to the people, and truly delivered our country like we’ve never seen before. The establishment hated it. Now, as they watch my endorsed candidates win big and see my dominance in every poll, they are trying to stop me and the Republican Party once again. Lawlessness, political persecution and witch-hunts must be exposed and stopped.
I will continue to fight for the great American people!
Trump, who summers at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, was not at Mar-a-Lago at the time of the raid, NBC News reported. The former president left Trump Tower in New York City on Monday evening without answering questions, according to NBC.
The FBI declined to comment.
The raid represents a serious escalation of federal law enforcement’s focus on Trump, after months of criticism from a range of liberals that Attorney General Merrick Garland was not doing the former president’s investigations .
There are multiple active state and federal probes into Trump, his business and his family. The Justice Department is reportedly investigating the events leading up to the riot on January 6, 2021, when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol and delayed confirmation of the president’s Electoral College victory Joe Biden for Congress.
A federal grand jury has, too as reported There has been a months-long investigation into whether laws were broken when 15 boxes of White House records, which contained items marked classified, were sent to Mar-a-Lago instead of the National Archives.
The New York Times reporters, citing three sources, reported that the search was related to the National Archives investigation.
“If the FBI searches your house, you’re in big trouble,” former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti said Monday evening on CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith.”
The attack came hours after Politico reported that attorney John Rowley, a former federal prosecutor, is now representing Trump in talks with the DOJ over executive privilege issues related to the department’s investigation into the 6/6 Capitol riot. January
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