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Well, it Looks Like the GOP’s Boss Man is in Trouble Again.
The FBI searched Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.
Last night, Donald Trump himself released a statement to CNN confirming that while he was in New York, the FBI had issued a search warrant and entered his compound on Mar-a-Lago. What they were searching for exactly we don’t yet know, but the articles, of course, have been flowing and the speculation brewing.
Eric Tucker and Michael Balsamo with AP write:
“…Trump, disclosing the search in a lengthy statement, asserted that agents had opened up a safe at his home and described their work as an “unannounced raid” that he likened to “prosecutorial misconduct.”
The search intensifies the months-long probe into how classified documents ended up in boxes of White House records located at Mar-a-Lago earlier this year. It occurs amid a separate grand jury investigation into efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and adds to the potential legal peril for Trump as he lays the groundwork for another run…
…Trump did not elaborate on the basis for the search, but the Justice Department has been investigating the potential mishandling of classified information after the National Archives and Records Administration said it had received from Mar-a-Lago…
