According to a statement by the former president, the FBI raided Donald Trump’s residence in Palm Beach, Florida, in the Mar-a-Lago complex. Trump called federal investigators Monday’s operation in Florida “an unannounced raid.” Trump was seen again in Washington this summer, and all indications are that he plans to announce his attempt to return to the presidency in 2024. His supporters accuse the White House of promoting this operation in order to avoid it.

Federal investigators are investigating the destruction of White House documents that Trump would have pursued after his term ended in January 2021, according to sources related to the case cited by the Anglo-Saxon press. A search warrant was issued for the discovery of documents from 15 boxes containing classified materials. The contents of those boxes were originally returned, but the FBI suspects that he kept the documents at his Florida home.

“My beautiful home, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, is being besieged, raided and occupied by a large group of FBI agents. They even destroyed my safe,” Trump, who was not at his Florida residence but at his New Jersey golf club, said in a statement when they conducted the search. Guardian. Trump and his wife Melania have lived in Mar-a-Lago since he lost the election to Democrat Joe Biden. Several dozen Trump supporters gathered near Mar-a-Lago to show their support for the former president.

The Justice Department is investigating Trump for violating the Presidential Records Act of 1978 to preserve White House records. This entry indicates for the first time that there is credible suspicion that Trump may have committed the crime. The punishment, if this destruction of documents is proven, could be a fine, jail, and suspension from filing federal charges. However, the penalty of disqualification does not apply to the President, as the Constitution does not give Congress the power to determine who can access the office, according to Roger Senserrich in his Four Freedoms newsletter.

Former adviser Stephanie Grisham condemned how she saw the former president destroy documents. The Axios website published photographs of documents with the president’s signature destroyed in the White House toilets. Grisham’s testimony before the committee investigating the assault on the Capitol on January 6th was like a bombshell: it gave him full publicity for what happened on that fateful day. Grisham said Trump wanted to go and rant in front of those who entered Congressional headquarters, but was eventually thwarted.

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In the statement, Trump vehemently attacks “radical left-wing Democrats” whom he accuses of the “raid”, which he likens to Watergate. “They will do anything to stop him from running in the 2024 election…they want to stop Republicans and conservatives in the midterms,” the post reads.

It was last January when the National Archives and Records Administration wanted to turn over White House records to a congressional committee investigating the Capitol Hill assault when it saw Trump take 15 cases to his Mar-a-Lago residence. In the end, the boxes were returned, but there is a suspicion that some documents were seized. Among them was a letter that Obama left for Trump after leaving office and his messages to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Trump’s lawyers claimed that the boxes contained souvenirs and gifts.

Several Republican politicians denounced the developments, which they believe are leading the country into chaos. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said: “I’ve seen enough. The Ministry of Justice has reached an unbearable state of armed politicization.”

Among those most outraged by the operation, Steve Bannon, a former Trump adviser, called the FBI a “deep state” despite being led by former president-appointed Christopher Wray. Bannon told Fox that the FBI “is like the Gestapo… We will fight fire with fire. The way to do this is to win the election with an overwhelming majority. You have to get to the bottom of this. It’s scandalous.” And he added that this deep state is terrified by the possibility that Trump will announce his bid for the candidacy and could run in 2024.