The FBI’s search of Donald Trump’s Florida home is causing fury among his supporters. Trump can take advantage of this if he chooses to run for president in the US in 2024, says a US expert.
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According to several American media, the background for the search of Mar-A-Lago is the investigation of classified documents.
The former US president has confirmed that the agents were at Mar-a-Lago:
– They even broke into my safe.
He was not himself present during the search, according to CNN.
“My beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Peach, Florida, is now under siege, ransacked and occupied by a large group of FBI agents,” Trump said in a statement Monday night.
CNN writes that he does not want to comment on the background of 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.
It will all deal with classified documents that Trump is accused of having illegally kept in this residence in Florida.
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.