Former US President Donald Trump said the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raided his home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida. “These are dark times for our nation. My beautiful home, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, is now under siege by a large group of FBI agents,” Trump said in a statement released Monday. August. its Social Truth.

According to Trump, during the search, FBI agents broke into his safe. “This is law enforcement misconduct, arming the judiciary and attacking far-left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for president in 2024,” he said.

The FBI declined to say whether the searches were carried out at the former president’s home and did not comment on the possible motives for the search. However, US media, citing sources close to the investigation, report that the reason for the court-sanctioned search may be secret documents Trump took with him when he left the White House, despite having been transferred to the National Archives.

In February, the National Archives confirmed that it had seized 15 boxes of documents from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Among them were Trump’s official correspondence with North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un, as well as a letter left in the Oval Office by Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama.

By law, the president’s records after the end of his term must be transferred to the National Archives. The return of the boxes of documents raised questions about Trump’s compliance with the Presidential Records Act. The National Archives then demanded that the Department of Justice launch an investigation into the former president’s actions.