Federal agents searchedDonald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach. After an informant said Trump may be keeping classified records at his private club, The Wall. The Street Journal reportedon .
Monday's search reportedly saw federal law enforcement officers come to Mar-a-Lago to discuss a box of government documents stored there. He was done two months later.
Federal authorities searched Trump's sprawling residence inFlorida south, and the U.S. Justice Department Obtained a warrant seeking classified records and White House records determined. had illegally kept it, two sources previously told The Guardian.
FBI A warrant executed by an FBI agent implied that the investigation into Trump was strictly a criminal investigation.
Justice Department officials said these records were not being held illegally in Mar-a-Lago after government lawyers recently spoke with Trump's legal team. I was worried. The unprecedented raid on the former president's residence has drawn a line between President Trump and his blatant disdain for his 1978 Presidential Records Act, which mandates the preservation of official records, and the political parties tasked with supporting that act. became the pinnacle of the dispute.
The search and reporting of his FBI informants in and around Trump's aideswas condemned by Trump supporters. - Action to raise funds and mobilize voters for the November elections.
Far-Right Republican Georgia Congressman Marjorie Taylor Green derided a potential informant as a "traitor." I know there was an informant of who it was and how many other FBI informants are around President Trump every day working at his club and working at Mar a Lago. In Lago, or Bedminster, or his staff?, according to Newsweek, Green said on a web show,. On June 3, a senior Justice Department official and three FBI agents sat in a basement storage room with suits, sweaters, and golf. Came to Trump's Mar-a-Lago house to discuss the box containing the record for "Shoes".
Trump and his team did not appear to be aware of the gravity of the situation during the meeting, according to the paper. "The ex-president even popped into a meeting in Mar-a-Lago on June 3 and shook hands," the Journal reported. A source told the WSJ that Trump had said: Installed on warehouse door. "However, in the weeks that followed, a person familiar with the archived documents told investigators that the private club may havemore classified documents,," the Journal said. reported.
These records may exist because the National Archives removed 15 boxes earlier this year. Justice Department officials were skeptical that Trump's team was outspoken about the records still in his home, sources told the newspaper. The warrant alludes to possible violations of the Presidential Records Act and statutes governing classified records, Trump's lawyers said. I'm not talking about the records that were made.
House Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said the Justice Department had reached "an intolerable state of weaponized politicization." If Republicans regained control of the House, McCarthy said he would take oversight of the Justice Department and warned Attorney General Merrick Garland to "keep the papers and empty the calendars."
