JAKARTA - Former President Donald Trump said FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago property on Monday and broke into his safe, possibly in connection with a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into the deletion of Trump's official records to a Florida resort.
The unprecedented raid on the former president's home would mark a significant escalation in the records probe, which is one of several that Trump has faced from his tenure and in private business. Read more
The Justice Department declined to comment on the raid, which Trump said involved "a large group of FBI agents." FBI headquarters in Washington and its field office in Miami both declined to comment.
The raid appeared to concern boxes of documents Trump brought from the White House to the Florida club, the New York Times reported, citing two unnamed people with knowledge of the investigation.
Trump said his area of residence "is currently under siege, raided and occupied." He did not say why the raid took place.
"After working and working closely with relevant Government agencies, this sudden raid on my home was neither necessary nor inappropriate," Trump said, adding: "They even broke into my safe!"
Later on Monday, Trump made no mention of the attack during a brief remote meeting for Leora Levy, who he has endorsed for the Republican nomination for the US senator from Connecticut.
CNN reported Trump was not at the resort at the time of the raid, with the FBI having executed a search warrant to enter the premises. The media also said the raids were linked to classified documents, citing unnamed sources.
Trump, who has made his club in Palm Beach his home since leaving the White House in January 2021, generally spends the summer at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, as Mar-a-Lago usually closes in May for the summer.
The Justice Department launched an early-stage investigation into Trump's deletion of records to the Florida estate, a source familiar with the matter said in April.
The investigation came after the US National Archives and Records Administration notified Congress in February that it had recovered about 15 boxes of White House documents from Trump's Florida home, some of which contained classified material.
The US House Oversight Committee at the time announced it would expand its investigation into Trump's actions and asked the Archives to submit additional information.
Trump previously confirmed that he had agreed to return certain records to the Archives, calling it a "regular and routine process."
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