Former US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that his famous residence in Florida, Mar-a-Lago, had been “searched” by the Federal Police (FBI). The Republican, directly or indirectly linked to several court cases, did not specify the reason.
But, according to US media, the intervention is part of an investigation into the mishandling of classified documents, which had been sent to Mar-a-Lago.
“Our nation lives in dark times. My beautiful home, Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is under siege and has been raided and occupied by numerous FBI agents,” Donald Trump said in a statement, saying to himself. victim of “political persecution”.
“After working and cooperating with the relevant government agencies, this unannounced search of my home was neither necessary nor appropriate,” he said.
“They even broke into my safe!”
“They even broke into my safe!” Donald Trump, who was not there, outraged, according to the New York Times.
Contacted, the FBI, which has not yet confirmed the search, declined to comment. In February, the National Archives said they had to retrieve 15 boxes of documents from Florida that Donald Trump had taken with him when he left Washington in January 2021.
In these boxes, letters from Barack Obama and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a map of the United States that had been the subject of stormy exchanges with the US weather service, but also, according to the Washington Post, various documents marked “defense secret”.
The National Archives assure that the Republican had no right to leave with these boxes: according to a 1978 law, every American president must transmit all his emails, letters and other work documents to this agency, in charge of keeping them. This federal agency had asked the US justice system to open an investigation into these events, according to US media.
Source: BFM TV
