FBI searches Mar-a-Lago, Trump says

The FBI has searched the Mar-a-Lago home of Donald Trump, the former president stated in a statement.

“They even broke into my harmless,” Trump reported on Monday in a prolonged statement describing it as a “raid.”

It was not immediately very clear why the agents have been existing at Mar-a-Lago, but he reported it was “under siege, raided, and occupied by a massive team of FBI agents.”

“After functioning and cooperating with the pertinent Federal government agencies, this unannounced raid on my dwelling was not needed or correct,” he stated.

The FBI and U.S. Attorney’s offices in Washington and for the Southern District of Florida did not immediately reply to requests for remark.

The news of the FBI action will come amid an increasingly intricate thicket of authorized threats encircling Trump and his internal circle. Most outstanding amongst them is the escalating investigation of efforts by Trump and his allies to disrupt the changeover of energy in 2020, in section by trying to appoint fraudulent presidential electors that would make a pretense for blocking Joe Biden’s victory.

That investigation has turn out to be an more and more community threat to Trump, with some of his prime allies and previous White House going through grand jury subpoenas and FBI lookups. Earlier in the working day, the Justice Section defended its choice to seize the mobile cellular phone of John Eastman, the legal professional who served devise Trump’s tactic to seize a 2nd time period he didn’t gain.

Federal investigators are also pursuing proof that Trump’s administration mishandled presidential data and even removed some bins to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago vacation resort.

An executed search warrant would involve the signoff of a federal judge, who would problem the warrant primarily based on evidence of a probable criminal offense.