Former President Donald Trump announced tonight that the FBI executed a search warrant at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
Agents carried out a search of the premises as part of their ongoing investigation into Trump's handling of presidential documents, including classified ones that were taken to his Florida residence after leaving the White House. In a statement blasting the raid, Trump said that agents “even broke into my safe.”
Trump was not on the property during the raid.
The search began early Monday morning and law enforcement personnel appeared to be focused on the area of the club where Trump's offices and personal quarters are, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The Justice Department declined to comment to CNN, as did the White House. A White House official said it was not notified about the search.
The Justice Department is investigating Trump's actions in two separate probes, one concerning his handling of documents which many argue flouted presidential records law and the other involving the attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, culminating with the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
The intensifying investigations come as Trump is widely expected to announce a 2024 White House run. Either before or after the midterms.
NBC News has more:
The FBI raid came days after Attorney General Merrick Garland told NBC News that the “most wide-ranging investigation” in Justice Department history was examining not only the rioters who invaded the Capitol and physically attacked officers, but was also examining whether anyone was “criminally responsible for interfering with the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to another.”
In February, the National Archives and Records Administration asked the Justice Department to examine whether Trump's handling of White House records violated federal law, a story first reported by The Washington Post and subsequently confirmed by NBC News sources.
The status of that request remains unclear.
Though it has not made a public announcement, the FBI is reportedly not disputing Trump's claims about the raid.
Trump's full statement on the raid is available here:
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Like a thief in the night. Why didn’t you come when he was home? You came in his private residence, and he wasn’t home to watch what you were doing, you could have planted all kinds of things to make him look guilty. You know you people have just recently been accused of illegal actions yourself.
When I worked in that environment an agent night duty took a piece of paper that wasn’t from my office and stamped it Top Secret and gave me a citation that I faced the next day and had to go to security to prove it wasn’t me and the paper wasn’t TS. They have tried it with the Russian thing and they all are trying to save face again October and make it out to be T. Pray D and even T aren’t killed or commited suicide before this whole mess is over. Good guys end up dead.
Where was Melania? Where ws Baron? I’ve seen no mention of them at all
Americans: We are witnessing the hostile take-over of our republic. The weaponized justice department is working to enhance the Demonrat party apparatus. Their goal is not only to prevent President Trump from being re-elected, but to punish him and all who stand with him.
This is what a coup looks like, a coup of our constitution and its citizenry. And what a great way to focus attention away from where it justifiably belongs, the corrupt Biden crime family. This is a national disgrace!
They just DECLARED ALL OUT WAR.
It’s only going to get worse. Everyone needs to be prepared for what comes next, taking our weapons away. That will be the start of the second American revolution, and the destruction of what use to be the United States of America.
Democrats will stoop to the lowest possible level to achieve their end goals which IMO is to strip the citizens of this once free and beautiful nation of its autonomy and pride thereby reducing us to non beings under their constant rule and control for their own pathetic political gain. These people are at the very least demonic!
They are asking for it! The left’s horns are showing, along with their desperation!! They will find things (that no doubt were planted) and try to oust him from running for president again. They could have placed Fentanyl there also to kill him….and then say he was taking drugs! It only takes a minute amount to kill someone. Do away with the FBI & CIA both, since they are compromised!
Nobody cares that they stole the election from him….nobody cares that the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax was perpetrated on him….nobody cares about all the fake impeachments that proved he was innocent and nobody cares that they (media) picked on him the entire 4 years…much worse than senile Biden. And nobody seems to care that we have an FBI/CIA that desperately needs fixed…many guilty of treason! This is war!! A war against good and evil!! The storm is upon us….it is devolution and evil will seem to be winning folks…..but God wins in the end!!! Prayers for DJT and the Trump family and friends.
You need to include the doj,dhs,nia and all the rest of the alphabet agencies. They have all been corrupted to the core and need to be completely removed and replaced by new people. This crap about the WH wasn’t advised of the raid — another illegitimate administration lie !!!!!! This was absolutely an UnConstitutional act under false pretense. As my Mother used to always tell us — what goes around -comes around !!!!
This is a declaration of war against the former President and his supporters. Biden can go to Hell. I withdrew my consent for his government as soon as he was installed by that illegitimate election, which by the way is not ever going away. The harder democrats try to deny it, the more it will come back to bite them, this is the real, “big lie”. Now they have seen fit not only to upend every American custom, hero and historical fact, but to attack the former President in his home. Though I know it is not likely I would curse Joe Biden to not live out the day. If his DOJ lackey were to follow suit you would find no tears here. Let his entire government spend eternity in Hell.
Yet Biden is allowed to take bribes from China and molest and rape little girls.
ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGEOUS! It’s really unbelievable that the democunts could stoop to this, when the real corruption is in the Biden family. FJB
Raid Outcomes:
Purge FBI
ID whose behind raids since Manafort
Name names
Bad timing Dems
Ammo for our side
We win Midterms
Ammo for Trump to run again
Reply same to Dems IE raid theyre homes
Yea sure, and Hunter and I never discuseed business,Hunter biden and corruption win the day,Biden/corrupt democrats are now standing on the same level as dog sxxx, what happens then scrape it off the bottom of your shoes start all over, this time you look harder where you step,vote corrupt democrats out of office return it to those who care about our Country.
So it ends: the government of the populace: by the Mob and for the Mob.
Well, THIS makes the Watergate Republicans look like altar boys.