FBI Raids Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

The FBI executed a search warrant today at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, CNN reports.

Trump himself confirmed the raid but declined to say why the FBI agents were at Mar-a-Lago, but he added “they even broke into my safe.”

New York Times: “The search, according to two people familiar with the investigation, appeared to be focused on material that Mr. Trump had brought with him to Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence, after he left the White House. Those boxes contained many pages of classified documents.”

Washington Post: “Such a move — a court-ordered search of his property to look for possible evidence of a crime — is deeply unusual for a former president and represents a historic moment in Trump’s tortured relationship with the Justice Department, both in and out of the White House.”

“To take such a step would require approval at the highest levels of the Justice Department.”