Donald Trump has reported that the FBI raided his Florida residence

Former US President Donald Trump has denounced that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) broke into his private residence in Mar-a-Lago, Floridathis Monday.

In a statement, Trump, who is being investigated by a House committee for his role in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, said that “these are dark times for our beautiful nation, for my beautiful home, Mar- a- Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, broken and occupied by a large number of FBI agents. Nothing like this has ever happened to a president of the United States before. “

The circumstances of the research are currently unclear. Spokesmen for the FBI and the Department of Justice did not return messages seeking comment.

“After collaborating and cooperating with the relevant government agencies, this unannounced foray into my home was neither necessary nor timelyTrump said in his statement.

“It’s procedural misconduct,” said Trump and he considered it “an attack by the radical left democrats who desperately do not want me to run for president in 2024 “.

The Justice Department has investigated the discovery of boxes of confidential information that were brought to Mar-a-Lago following the end of the Trump presidency. It was unclear whether the FBI record was related to that investigation.

Another problem

Every American president has a legal obligation to keep letters, emails, and business documents and deliver them to the national archives, but photos released this Monday show some notes that Trump would flush the toilet down the toilet.

The images are part of the book “The man of trust: the creation of Donald Trump and the breakup of America”written by New York Times reporter and CNN contributor Maggie Haberman.

Those photos of two bathrooms they were obtained by the author thanks to sources of the former republican administration.

One of those images shows a bathroom inside the White House and the second another from Trump’s trip abroad. On one of the torn tickets you can read the word “qualified”and in another Stefanik, a possible reference to Republican MP Elise Stefanik, an ally of Trump who has become the party’s “number three” in the House.

It’s unclear who wrote them, but according to CNN his handwriting appears to be that of the former president.

“Who knows what those papers were? Only him and presumably who would take care of it, ”Haberman told CNN on Monday, making it clear that beyond the content that can be deduced, the most important thing in the matter is the preservation of official documents.

The reporter recalls that White House staff during Trump’s term (2017-2021) stressed that the now former US president I threw the documents down the toilet.

a custom

In “Man of trust”due to be released in October, Haberman offers a portrayal of both Trump and the character as a mass phenomenon based on experience gained from covering his tenure and interviews with hundreds of sources, according to publisher Penguin Books.

This isn’t the first time Trump has been accused of tearing up official documents. In February, the media published the finding of several boxes with material and information about the former president’s work had at his home in Florida.

Among the documents there was a correspondence sent to him by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during the bilateral thaw process, and which Trump once described as “love letters” as well as a letter left in the Oval Office by his predecessor, Barack Obama (2009-2017).

Haberman had already assured in February that Trump used to throw paper in the toilet and that, according to White House staff, it sometimes clogged the pipes, a charge the former president considered then. “categorically false”.

“You have to be pretty desperate to sell books if part of your promotional strategy is paper photos in a cup,” Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich told Axios on Monday.

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