US President Joe Biden was not notified in advance of a search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, the White House said on Tuesday, stressing that the Justice Department was conducting an independent investigation, AFP reported.
“The president was not informed, he was not informed,” White House spokeswoman Karin Jean-Pierre told the press. “No one in the White House was informed,” she added.
Former US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that federal FBI agents had searched Mar-a-Lago, his spectacular Florida residence that has more than 120 rooms, 33 bathrooms and a golf course.
“Our nation is living in dark times, my beautiful home, Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is under siege, taken over by multiple FBI agents,” Trump said in a statement, adding that he was under pressure. “political persecution”.
The Republican did not specify the reason for this operation, but a former FBI officer says it will be related to documents from the National Archives that Trump took and took home.
Donald Trump’s former right-hand man Mike Pence on Tuesday condemned the FBI’s search of the former US president’s home, which he may face in his 2024 bid for the Republican presidential nomination, AFP reported.
“I share the deep concern of millions of Americans following the unprecedented search of President Trump’s private residence,” Mike Pence tweeted.
- PHOTO What Mar-a-Lago looks like, the residence of former President Donald Trump. The huge building has more than 120 rooms
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