[bitontheslide]

Former US President Donald Trump has said his Florida home has been raided by the FBI.

Mr Trump said in a statement Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach was "occupied by a large group of FBI agents".

CBS News, the BBC's US partner, reports that the raid was connected to an investigation into Mr Trump's handling of official papers.

Mr Trump is also currently the focus of a congressional inquiry into last year's US Capitol riot.

According to CNN, Mr Trump was in Trump Tower in New York City at the time of Monday's reported raid.

"These are dark times for our Nation," Mr Trump's statement began.

He said he had co-operated with all relevant government agencies and so the "unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate".

Mr Trump said it amounted to "prosecutorial misconduct" and "the weaponisation of the Justice System" to prevent him from running for the White House again in 2024.

"Such an assault could only take place in broken, Third-World Countries," he said. "Sadly, America has now become one of those Countries, corrupt at a level not seen before.

"They even broke into my safe!"

CBS News has confirmed that the FBI's execution of the search warrant on Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate was related to an investigation into the handling of National Archives records.

In February, the National Archives, the US government agency that manages the preservation of presidential records, asked the justice department to investigate Mr Trump for his handling of official papers.

US presidents are required by law to transfer all of their letters, work documents and emails to the National Archives.

But officials say the former president illegally ripped up many documents.

Some of them had to be taped back together, the Archives said. Mr Trump at the time rejected reports that he had mishandled official records as "fake news".

A senior Trump adviser in Palm Beach told CBS the raid by federal agents on Mar-a-Lago was about the presidential records.

"This is about the PRA [Presidential Records Act violations]," said the Trump source, who only agreed to speak on condition of anonymity.

"When have you ever heard about a raid because of PRA?"

The source added: "They [the FBI] just left and they left with very little."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62472908

[arista]

[But officials say the former president illegally ripped up many documents.]


Typical Trump

[Alf]

Wow! The deep state really are on the retreat and in total panic mode right now. To do this to your political opponents in America tells you they're fighting for their lives. This is KGB sh!t. They've shown their hand now, exactly who they are. There's no going back from this.

[arista]

Its the FBI.


[Formed July 26, 1908 (as the Bureau of Investigation)]

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Alf

Wow! The deep state really are on the retreat and in total panic mode right now. To do this to your political opponents in America tells you they're fighting for their lives. This is KGB sh!t. They've shown their hand now, exactly who they are. There's no going back from this.

Tbf he might've genuinely done something criminal.

[Alf]

They told you Trump will go full Hitler but the reality is, Biden went full Stalin.

[Alf]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

Tbf he might've genuinely done something criminal.

To the deep state, he did. He exposed them to the World.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Alf

To the deep state, he did. He exposed them to the World.

No
it was Crime while he was President.

[Alf]

Originally Posted by arista

No
it was Crime while he was President.

What, a crime like going to Epstein Island? Sure it was.

[Alf]

They have plans for us all.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Alf

What, a crime like going to Epstein Island? Sure it was.

No, not like that

[Alf]

[arista]

[Trump didn't say specifically what the federal agents
were looking for,
just that his Florida home was 'under siege, raided,
and occupied by a large group of FBI agents']


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ge-agents.html

[arista]

[Trump took 15 boxes of material with him in
January 2021 after he left Washington D.C.
The boxes were returned to the National Archives
a year later in January 2022 but agents on Monday
were looking to see if Trump had additional material;
above workers move boxes
out of the Trump White House on January 14, 2021]

[Alf]

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Alf

To the deep state, he did. He exposed them to the World.

We'll have to see on that.

I mean the world is in a ****ed up state so anything is possible at this point in Politics.

[bitontheslide]

The raid was worth it just to watch Alf's meltdown

[Oliver_W]

Christ, even if he did have something to do with Jan6, doesn't excuse his house being torn apart.

Do they think he has physical copies of the tweets in a house on the literal opposite coast?

Whatever you think about him, it sounds like spite rather than an actual investigation.

[bitontheslide]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Christ, even if he did have something to do with Jan6, doesn't excuse his house being torn apart.

Do they think he has physical copies of the tweets in a house on the literal opposite coast?

Whatever you think about him, it sounds like spite rather than an actual investigation.

they are talking about official government documents, not tweets

[arista]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

they are talking about official government documents, not tweets

Yes


Trump has left a Complex Path

[MTVN]

Unless they find something seriously compromising, this could actually be a massive gift to Trump

[bitontheslide]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Unless they find something seriously compromising, this could actually be a massive gift to Trump

i don't think it matters much either way. Views are so entrenched on both sides that opinions wont change. I think the investigations will continue all the way up to the next presidential election.

The latest from meta/facebook is that they are ramping down on taking action on election interference, so it's pretty clear which way the wind is blowing

[arista]

Those documents
are meant to be left in the White House.
MTVN

Your not mean't to take them home

[LeatherTrumpet]

seems a political move more than anything

[bitontheslide]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

seems a political move more than anything

everything can be viewed as a political move. The FBI will have to come clean on whether they found anything or not very quickly, so it could actually help trump clear his name