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The home has been searched by the FBI – VG

The former US president says FBI agents have searched the luxury property Mar-a-lago in Florida. According to several American media, the background is investigation of classified documents.

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– These are dark times for our country when my beautiful home in Mar-a-Lago is now besieged, searched and occupied by a large group of FBI agents. This has never before happened to a president in the United States, he writes in a statement on his website TruthSocial, according to NTB.

There he also rages against what he calls the radical left in the Democrats, and claims that the action is an attack from them. In the statement, he writes that this is happening because they do not want him to stand as a presidential candidate in 2024.

According to CNN Trump himself was not in Florida when he says the search took place. They write that he does not want to comment on the background to the search.

Neither the Ministry of Justice nor the White House wish to comment on the case to CNN. Neither does the FBI, writes AFP.

Trump supporters outside the former president’s residence in Florida

Took documents with him

According to New York Times’ sources say the search is linked to boxes of classified documents that Donald Trump took with him to Mar-a-lago after he left the White House.

Also AFP is informed by several sources that the search is linked to 15 boxes of documents, which the former president had to return to the national archive In february.

Trump had taken the documents with him after he stepped down as president, and according to the National Archives was some of the documents are classified.

LUXURY VILLA: Donald Trump lives at Mar-a-lago. He bought the property for a modest $10 million in the 80s.

It happened a month after the committee investigating the congressional hearing on January 6, 2021 received permission to go through all the documents from Trump’s time as president. Then Trump had longer time attempted to legally prevent the 6 January committee from gaining access to documents from the National Archives

Afterwards, the House Oversight Committee said it would expand its investigation into Trump’s withholding of documents, and request more information from the National Archives. Reuters. Trump, for his part, called it a routine process.

Earlier that month, the National Archives claimed that Trump had demolished several documents in pieces, which had to be taped together.

Zeke Miller, who covers the White House for the AP, writes on Twitter that the FBI investigation, according to the AP’s sources, is related to whether Trump took classified information from the White House.

RACE: Donald Trump describes the search as an occupation and a siege.

Call it an attack

In the statement on his own website, Trump writes that he has cooperated with all relevant authorities, and he was not notified of the action in advance, according to NTB.

– Such an attack can only take place in a destroyed, third-world country. Unfortunately, the United States has now become one of those countries, corrupt on a level that no one has seen before, writes Trump.

Furthermore, he asks what the difference is between this and Watergate – the scandal that led to Richard Nixon having to resign after a break-in in the Democrats’ party offices.

– Now it’s happening in reverse, the Democrats are breaking into the home of the 45th president of the United States, writes Trump.

Nixon announced his resignation on August 8, 1974 – so exactly 48 years ago.

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