Trump says will take legal action over ‘illegal’ FBI raid
Former US President Donald Trump, whose private residence was recently raided by FBI agents in an unprecedented step, says he will soon take legal action over the “illegal break-in.”
Trump said in a post on his social media platform Truth Social on Friday that a “major motion” would soon be filed, The Hill reported.
He did not specify where the motion would be filed but said the move would be related to the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution, which protects citizens against unreasonable searches and seizures.
“A major motion pertaining to the Fourth Amendment will soon be filed concerning the illegal Break-In of my home, Mar-a-Lago, right before the ever important Mid-Term Elections,” Trump wrote in his post.
FBI agents used a warrant to search through Trump’s personal property at his sprawling Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida on August 8. The raid was part of an investigation by the US Department of Justice into the former president’s handling of classified documents after he left office in January 2021.
Officers retrieved 11 sets of classified files at Trump’s residence, including four that were marked “top secret/SCI,” one of the highest levels of classification in the US government. It is still unclear why Trump took those documents after leaving the White House, but the search warrant used in the raid, which was recently unsealed, showed that prosecutors believed the former president had violated several laws, including the Espionage Act.
In his social media post, Trump said his rights had been violated at a level “rarely seen” before. He has previously called the FBI raid “an assault that could only take place in broken, Third-World Countries,” and raged against Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. Earlier, Trump had also objected to the seizure of his three passports during the FBI raid, including an active diplomatic one. The Justice Department later said the passports had been taken by mistake and returned them to the former president.
The affidavit in the Department of Justice investigation, the basic document wherein prosecutors have likely stated the reasons for the search, is now the subject of court proceedings to decide whether it can be made public. A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Biden administration to propose redactions to the document, a sign that he may later rule that it be released.
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