FBI raided former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida on Monday morning, and according to reports, law enforcement agents searched Melania Trump’s wardrobe and spent almost ten hours combing through the former president’s private office, breaking open his safe and rifling through drawers, NYTIMES reported.
Daily US Feed has learned that law enforcement agents obtained a search warrant and entered Trump’s home because they believed the former president may be storing presidential records and evidence of classified information there.
During the operation, which lasted for nine hours and thirty minutes, law enforcement agents executing the search would not allow Trump’s attorneys inside the 128-room building, a source close to the former president said. As a result, the source expressed concern that FBI agents could have “planted stuff.”
The search conducted by more than thirty FBI agents extended through the former president’s entire 3,000-square-foot private property. In addition, federal agents, who arrived at 9 a.m. and didn’t leave until 6:30 p.m., combed through a separate office and safe, and a locked basement storage room in which they found fifteen cardboard boxes of material from the White House.
Someone who witnessed the raid told The Post that all of the boxes were confiscated by federal agents on Monday. However, it is not known if the searchers found anything else as no itemized list of items was provided by the FBI.
The fifteen cardboard boxes found in the locked basement storage room contain documents and souvenirs from Trump’s presidency. The documents reportedly include letters from Barack Obama and North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong Un, and other correlations with several world leaders.
According to a legal source, the boxes had been shipped to Mar-a-Lago by the General Services Administration in January 2020 when Trump left office.
Trump’s legal team, led by Evan Corcoran, had fully been cooperating with federal agents on the return of the documents to the National Archives and Records Administration, according to sources.
According to a retired high-ranking USSS agent, the FBI agents were wrong to have executed the warrant without notifying the Secret Service first. Attorneys for Trump, who were caught off guard by the raid, arrived an hour later.
