The FBI searched Donald Trump’s property, according to the former president. He accuses the Democrats of being responsible for the police operation because they want to prevent him from running again.
According to former US President Donald Trump, the federal police FBI searched his property in Mar-a-Lago in the US state of Florida. “My beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, search and occupation by a large group of FBI agents,” Trump wrote on Monday evening (local time) on the network he co-founded, Truth Social. . “This unannounced raid on my home was neither necessary nor appropriate,” Trump continued.
His safe was also opened. “This is law enforcement misconduct, weaponizing the judicial system and an onslaught by the far left Democrats who desperately don’t want me running for president in 2024”
Trump called the process “political persecution”. It was initially unclear why the property was searched. Media reported that the FBI had completed the search on Monday evening (local time). A CNN reporter said Trump was not at home during the action. The ex-president was recently heavily incriminated by witnesses at the public hearings of the investigative committee on the Capitol attack. Accordingly, Trump knew that the demonstrators were armed on January 6, 2021 and deliberately sent them to the Capitol.
Recently, there had been growing evidence that the Justice Department was investigating Trump’s behavior more closely. The question is whether Attorney General Merrick Garland could take criminal action against Trump. Trump has also been accused of withholding files and documents from his time in the White House and even flushing down the toilet. Trump rejected that. Actually, in the USA all correspondence of the president has to be archived and kept for posterity.
The New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Habermans has now published photos to support the toilet rumor.
With the photos, she wants to substantiate the allegations made in her forthcoming book that during Trump’s tenure, White House employees regularly found torn printed paper in the presidential toilets, which in some cases even blocked them.
The photos were distributed on Monday (local time) by the media portal “Axios”. The pictures show small snippets in a toilet, according to reports in the White House and the other time on a trip abroad. These may actually be notes written by Trump, as the letters on the scraps of paper resemble his handwriting. They are also written with a thick marker, which Trump always preferred to a fountain pen.
“It was an aggravation of Trump’s longstanding habit of tearing up documents required to be retained under the Presidential Records Act,” Haberman told Axios.
“That Mr. Trump disposed of documents in this manner was not widely known in the West Wing, but some staffers were aware of the habit as he engaged in it repeatedly,” she said.
Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich denied the authenticity of the photos to Axios: “You must be pretty desperate to sell books when pictures of paper in a toilet bowl are part of your promotional plan.”
The New York Times, citing anonymous sources, reported that the investigation at Trump’s Florida home was related to the secret documents. After his term in office, Trump took several boxes with files to his property in Mar-a-Lago. According to reports, this included important communication documents – including letters from North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un and a letter from Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama. Trump finally turned over several documents to the National Archives and Records Administration.
Trump attended a scheduled event with ultra-conservative former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Monday evening (local time) by phone. She wants to be elected to the US House of Representatives in the congressional elections in the fall. According to the newspaper, “Another day in paradise” and “That was a strange day” was all Trump said about the events. Leading Republican Kevin McCarthy said he would launch an investigation into the Justice Department if Republicans win a majority in the House of Representatives in the fall congressional elections.
Trump had recently flirted with running again in the 2024 presidential election. However, he has not yet announced his candidacy. Observers had speculated that Trump could soon announce a candidacy because of the pressure from the Capitol Committee investigations.
