Category: FBI Raids Trump Resort

McConnell Says ‘Country Deserves Thorough and Immediate Explanation’ About Trump Residence Search

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has called for a “thorough and immediate explanation” in the wake of the FBI’s search at former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence. “Attorney General Garland and the Department of Justice should already have provided answers to the American people and must do so immediately,” he said in a statement. “The…


Grassley Speak With FBI Director Expressing Concerns After Mar-a-Lago Raid

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said he spoke with FBI Director Christopher Wray expressing his concerns over the agency’s conduct a day after former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida, was raided. “Less than a week ago, I expressed serious concern that what little remains of the FBI’s credibility is on the line…


Grassley Speaks With FBI Director Expressing Concerns After Mar-a-Lago Raid

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said he spoke with FBI Director Christopher Wray expressing his concerns over the agency’s conduct a day after former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida, was raided. “Less than a week ago, I expressed serious concern that what little remains of the FBI’s credibility is on the line…


Grassley Expresses Concerns to FBI Director After Mar-a-Lago Raid

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said he spoke with FBI Director Christopher Wray expressing his concerns over the agency’s conduct a day after former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida, was raided. “Less than a week ago, I expressed serious concern that what little remains of the FBI’s credibility is on the line…


Rep. Scott Perry Says FBI Seized His Cell Phone After Mar-a-Lago Raid

Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), an ally of President Donald Trump, says the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seized his cellphone a day after it executed a search warrant at Trump’s resort in Mar-a-Lago, Palm Breach. “This morning, while traveling with my family, three FBI agents visited me and seized my cell phone,” reads a statement…


Trump Critics Say FBI Mar-a-Lago Raid May Have Handed Him GOP Nomination, ‘Potentially the Presidency’

The FBI’s raid of the former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Largo estate “handed” the 2024 Republican presidential nomination to Trump and prompted moderate Republicans to vote for him, according to Joe Walsh, a former Republican congressman and a critic of Trump. Trump announced that his Florida property was “under siege” and “occupied by a group of…


No Legal Basis for Barring Trump From Running Again After Mar-a-Lago Raid: Experts

The FBI’s raid on Aug. 8 of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, as part of an investigation into documents allegedly removed from the White House when Trump departed in 2021, is highly unlikely to produce any evidence that could form part of a legal case for disallowing the former president from seeking office again,…


After Raid, Trump Determined to ‘Straighten This Country Out’: Graham

Former President Donald Trump is determined to fix the United States after his residence was raided by the FBI, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Aug. 9. “President Trump is determined, now more than ever, to straighten this country out,” Graham, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, told reporters at a press conference in…


White House Hasn’t Been Briefed on FBI Raid on Trump: Jean-Pierre

President Joe Biden and White House officials have not been briefed about the FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s resort, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Aug. 9. “We did not know about this and we have not been briefed about this,” Jean-Pierre told reporters in Washington. Echoing a White House official’s…


FBI Agents Were Looking for Classified Records, Took Boxes of Documents From Trump Resort: Lawyer

The FBI agents who raided former President Donald Trump’s Florida resort were looking for certain records, according to a lawyer for Trump who was on the scene while agents were at the resort. “They’re looking for presidential records, what they deemed to be presidential records, and anything that could potentially be classified,” Christina Bobb, the…