US Attorney General Merrick Garland confirmed that he had “personally approved” the FBI’s extraordinary raid at Donald Trump’s Florida home. He also condemned “unfounded attacks” on the FBI following the unprecedented action against an ex-president.
However, he did not explain the apparent reason behind the search but stressed that there was a “probable cause”. Moreover, the reports say that the search was conducted for documents related to nuclear weapons.
He said to the reporters, “I personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter, The department does not take such a decision lightly.”
The people who are familiar with the investigation say that FBI officials were looking for classified documents related to nuclear weapons, among other items, at Trump’s Florida-based home.
However, they neither explain the documents in detail, nor whether the documents related to nuclear weapons belonging to the US or another nation.
But, if it comes out that Trump took the documents from the white house, it would raise the question of why a former president would need such closely guarded secrets after leaving office.
The possibility that such material would be held at an unsecured facility, where guests come and go and where it would be potentially vulnerable to penetration by a foreign intelligence service, would alarm government officials.
Mike Pence, Former vice president of the US, expressed “deep concern” and said that the raid smacked “partisanship” by the Justice Department.
Trump said, “Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before,” and condemned the raid as “Politically motivated” and a “weaponization” of the Justice Department.
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FBI raids on Donald Trump’s Florida Home ‘Mar-a-Lago’FBI agents executed a search warrant against the US Former President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida, and had even broken into his personal safe.
American media reported the search was part of an investigation into the potential mishandling of presidential documents that Trump had brought to his residence after leaving office in January 2021.
CNN News quoted that the former President’s son Eric Trump told Fox News “the purpose of the raid…(was to) corroborate whether or not Donald Trump had any documents in his possession.”
CNN news further said that the agents were seeking to examine the boxes of documents that had been taken from the White House and to determine where they were kept.
However, The FBI has not released any official statement regarding the reasons for the search. But the Justice Department has been investigating the former President’s handling of White House records after the US National Archives stated in February that it had found classified information in 15 boxes of records that it had retrieved from Trump’s lawyers.
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