Former US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that his famous Florida residence Mar-a-Lago was “searched” by the federal police (FBI), foreign media reported.

FBI employees at Donald Trump’s residencePhoto: Profimedia Images

“Our nation is living in dark times, my beautiful home, Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is under siege, attacked and occupied by multiple FBI agents,” he said in a statement, claiming he was under “political persecution”.

The Republican did not specify the reason for this operation, but a former FBI officer says that it will be related to documents from the National Archives that Trump took and took to his home. according to rawstory.com. “There is a medium to high degree of confidence that the search is related to the case of documents in the National Archives… The time for negotiations is long past, as is the time for simply returning these documents: We have reached a point where FBI agents have convinced a judge that they have evidence of a crime. And rest assured that when a former US president’s home is searched, the warrant comes from the highest levels of the Department of Justice and the Attorney General’s Office,” the former officer said.

It will be recalled that the National Archives requested an investigation, which showed that they should return 15 boxes of documents that Donald Trump took with him after he left Washington in January 2021. Among the documents in these boxes are letters from Barack Obama and North Korea. leader Kim Jong-un.