FBI searches Trump’s home in Florida, broke into his safe

Former President Donald Trump said has said that the FBI had searched his Palm Beach, Fla., home and had broken open a safe — an account signaling a major escalation in the various investigations into the final stages of his presidency. The New York Times report said that the search, according to multiple people familiar with the investigation, appeared to be focused on material that Trump had brought with him to Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence, when he left the White House. Those boxes contained  classified documents. Trump delayed returning 15 boxes of material requested by officials with the National Archives for many months, only doing so when there became a threat of action to retrieve them. The case was referred to the Justice Department by the archives early this year.

Scoop — The Federal Bureau of Investigation @FBI today executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, two sources confirm to @Fla_Pol.

"They just left," one source said.

Not sure what the search warrant was about.

TBH, Im not a strong enough reporter to hunt this down, but its real. pic.twitter.com/hMsGhlVp3d

— Peter Schorsch (@PeterSchorschFL) August 8, 2022

“These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents,” Trump said in a statement posted on his social media. He asserted that the “unannounced raid” at his Palm Beach residence was unnecessary and inappropriate as he was “cooperating with the relevant government agencies.” Calling it “prosecutorial misconduct”, the Republican leader blamed the raid on “radical left democrats who desperately don't want me to run for President in 2024.” “Such an assault could only take place in broken, Third-World Countries. Sadly, America has now become one of those Countries, corrupt at a level not seen before. They even broke into my safe!” he added.

The US Justice Department has been investigating Trump's removal of classified records to the Florida estate that were retrieved by the National Archives and Records Administration earlier this year. Trump previously confirmed that he had agreed to return certain records to the National Archives, calling it "an ordinary and routine process." Trump is facing multiple legal woes, most of them from his White House tenure, including the missing national records, attack on US Capitol, wire fraud, Georgia election tampering.