Agents FBI they broke into his luxurious mansion Donald Trump, in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, and opened his safe in the wake of a spectacular escalation in the investigations being carried out against him. Although there was no official position of the Ministry of Justice until yesterday evening, everything indicates that the purpose of the investigation was to recover the files White House which the former Republican president took with him (unfortunately) when his term expired.

The revelation of the FBI intrusion was made by Trump himself, who in a long and angry statement denounced “the instrumentalization of the justice system and the attacks by the Democrats, who are radical leftists who are desperately trying to prevent me from running for president.” president “president in 2024”. The same accusation of instrumentalizing justice against Trump was echoed by leading Republicans such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSandis and House leader Kevin McCarthy.

Biden didn’t know

Instrumentalization of justice and political persecution to prevent him from running in 2024, the former president complains.

The White House has claimed that President Biden had no idea about the investigation, while Democrats have pointed out that Acting FBI Director Christopher Wray was appointed by Trump himself five years ago. The former president was not in Mar-a-Lago at the time of the operation. His son, Eric Trump, said the search of his father’s home was aimed at finding missing documents from his presidency, which should be returned to the National Archives.

On leaving the presidency on January 20, 2021, Donald Trump took several boxes of documents with him to Florida, some of which were marked “secret”, which is against the law. A few months ago, the National Archives announced that it had seized 15 boxes of White House documents from Mar-a-Lago and asked the Justice Department to investigate the matter.

In a statement he posted on social media, Donald Trump called it “a diversion” that they ordered the FBI operation despite his cooperation with them all along, adding: “Our country is living in dark days. , my beautiful home, Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is under siege, ransacked and occupied by numerous FBI agents. They also opened my safe… This is political persecution.” Various criminal cases have been filed against the real estate mogul and former president, and the hearings in the investigative committee of the House of Representatives over perversions on January 6, 2021 at the Capitol are ongoing.