Donald Trump arrived at his Manhattan address on Tuesday night after the Florida raid. Investigators searched Melania Trump’s clothes and ransacked his Florida office.
Trump (74) continued to express his anger on Tuesday about the raid. It is thought that it was carried out to find documents the former president had taken from the White House.
All presidential documentation and correspondence must be turned over to National Archives. It has become clear that Trump didn’t comply with the law since February. Several documents were not returned to the National Archives by Trump at the start of the year.
FBI agents were inside the 128-room Florida estate for nine hours on Monday, with 30 agents roaming through the entire 3,000-square-foot private quarters.
The investigators searched the master bedroom, known as the Versailles Room, which Melania Trump renovated two years ago, The New York Post reported.
Donald Trump arrives at Trump Tower on Tuesday night, one day after his Mar-a-Lago raid
Trump was also present in Manhattan Monday when the raid occurred
As he returned to Trump Tower, the 74-year old waved at waiting media.
Trump was furious at Monday’s FBI raid. He called it an abuse and overreach of FBI power
Trump walked into his house without any apparent companions.
The paper did not explain their rummaging through Melania’s closet.
The agents also searched a separate office and safe, and a locked basement storage room in which 15 cardboard boxes of material from the White House were stored, the paper said.
Although the Justice Department did not comment on the raid which, analysts stated would need to have been approved at the highest levels of government, they didn’t.
According to sources, Trump’s lawyers, including Evan Corcoran were cooperating with federal authorities in order to return the documents. The process began May 2021, when some missing records were discovered.
Melania Trump was last seen July 20, during the Manhattan funeral of Donald’s first wife Ivana
Former first lady seen leaving Trump Tower June 1
This timeline shows just a few of the battles that former President Donald Trump has had with National Archives, since he left office. It also includes a unrelated court battle with the Jan 6 committee.
Some of the documents were returned in January 2022. The news was made public in February 2019.
Four top DOJ officers traveled to Mar-a-Lago in June to talk with former President Barack Obama’s lawyers about the documents.
Jay Bratt from the DOJ’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section was reported to have been among the people who spoke with Trump’s lawyers.
Trump’s staff showed government officials the basement where Trump stored documents.
Reports say that investigators discovered some files marked classified.
CNN reported that former President Obama stopped by CNN’s office to say hello, and then left.
They reportedly wrote to Trump’s staff days after their visit asking for security in the area where the documents were stored.
CNN reported that the area was then secured by armed guards.
It’s not known what took place between June 2006 and this week that led to the FBI claiming the documents.
Trump Tower, New York City was where the former president was.
On Monday, FBI agents raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach.
Pro-Trump and anti-media demonstrators stand across the waterfront, Mar A Lago’s on Monday night
Trump supporters gathered at Mar-a-Lago Monday night
Fox News reported that Eric Trump, his son, informed his father about the raid.
In a statement, the former President claimed that he had been a victim to political persecution.
‘These dark times are for our nation, as my beautiful house, Mar-A-Lago (Palm Beach), Florida, is currently being under siege, raided and occupied by a large team of FBI agents’ Trump declared through his Save America PAC.
“I stood up against America’s bureaucratic corruption and restored power to people. I delivered for my Country like nothing else.”
It was hated by the establishment.
“Now they want to stop me and the Republican Party once again, while they see my endorsed candidates win huge victories and my dominance on all polls.
“The Witch Hunt, lawlessness, political persecution and witch hunt must be revealed and stopped.”