Mar-a-Lagothe mansion that the former US president Donald Trump owns in Palm Beach, in the southeast of Floridawas raided this Monday by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), as announced by Trump himself on his website.
“These are dark times for our nation, as my beautiful house of Mar-a-Lagoin Palm Beach, is now being besieged, assaulted and occupied by a large group of FBI agents,” the former US president wrote on his digital platform.
According to media like CNNit is a search warrant that the federal entity complies with at the Mar-a-Lago residence without the reasons or cause being known so far.
In the statement, Trump states that “never before had something like this happened to a president of the USA“.
“After working and cooperating with the relevant government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was neither necessary nor appropriate,” he says.
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According to Trump, an assault like this can only happen in “broken” countries of the Third World. “Unfortunately,” he adds. USA has now become one of those countries, corrupt on a level never seen before.”
“They even broke into my safe!” He then exclaims indignantly, to underline that “the political persecution of President Donald J. Trump has been going on for years.”
He also referred to the former Secretary of State Hillary Clintonto ensure that “was allowed to erase and acid wash 33 000 emails after they were reclaimed by Congress.
And yet, she said, “absolutely nothing has happened to make her responsible.”
The 45th president of the USA (2017-2021) further said, without explaining the reasons for the raid, that “lawlessness, political persecution and witch hunts must be exposed and stopped.”
(With information from EFE)
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