Donald Trump’s Mar Arago home raided by FBI

He’s about a box of documents Trump brought from the White House, and his father has been working with the National Archives on the matter for months.

The Justice Department has been investigating the discovery of a box of records containing classified information that was brought into Mar-a-Lago after President Trump’s term ended. Washington Post reported that the National Archives and Records Administration said earlier this year that it had recovered 15 boxes of records containing classified information from Mar-a-Lago. Trump has previously claimed that the president’s records were turned over “through the normal, routine process.”

Depending on the results of the search, someone in possession of a government document “under U.S. law makes it a crime to intentionally and unlawfully conceal, delete, mutilate, obliterate, alter, or destroy.” The problem could be Trump’s powder keg because of the section.” They.

Those convicted under the law face up to three years’ imprisonment and deprivation of public office.

Trump has been teasing for months that he will launch another candidacy for the White House in 2024, despite continuing legal troubles on multiple fronts.

Over the past year, congressional committees have also been investigating the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, culminating in a series of explosive hearings that deliberately carried out the incident as part of a deliberate and coordinated overthrow. accused the former president of agitation. 2020 election.

Trump, who is notorious for hyperbole and lies, once again claimed that he was being politically persecuted by “radical left Democrats,” referring the events to the failed robbery of 1972 that led to the biggest political scandal of the time. I compared it to a certain Watergate.

“What’s the difference between this and Watergate, where operatives broke into the Democratic National Committee?” I asked before claiming.

Within hours, Trump was using the incident to raise campaign funds. His fundraising arm, Save America, sent out an email containing a clip of former Fox News adviser Stephen Miller, describing the act as “disgusting” and saying, “Donate to save America.” I’ve attached a link to Do.

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Supporters also gathered outside Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion, holding signs and shouting obscenities to protest the treatment of the former president.

Execution of the search warrant raises the stakes of the Justice Department, which earlier Monday said of lawyer John Eastman, the attorney who helped devised Trump’s strategy to reverse the 2020 election results. I defended my decision to seize the phone.

With three months to go until the midterm elections, the candidates backing Trump’s false claim that the last presidential election was stolen are also making steady progress. through their primaries.

Republican conservatives are concerned about this, fearing that some of the candidates are too radical to appeal to mainstream voters.

The latest case study into President Trump’s string of anti-election campaigns came out Tuesday in Arizona, where three Republicans who backed his lies earned key positions in key battleground states. .

The White House has yet to respond to the matter and has referred the question to the Department of Justice, which has yet to respond.

The Justice Department has indicted about 800 people for their involvement in the Jan. 6 attacks, but has been criticized for moving too slowly in investigating Trump and his aides.

Attorney General Merrick Garland said simply that the Department of Justice will “follow the facts wherever they lead.”

“No one is above the law in this country,” Garland said in June.

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House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, who wants the House Speaker job if Republicans win the midterm elections, argued: The State Department has “reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization.”

“If Republicans take back the House, we will immediately monitor this department, follow the facts, and do whatever it takes,” McCarthy tweeted. “

– with Reuters