Donald Trump supporters’ anger over the FBI raid on the former president’s home shows no sign of abating with his spokesperson saying it “would make a third world dictator blush.”
Taylor Budowich, who is the communications director for the “Save America and Donald J Trump” campaign, said Monday’s raid on Mar-a-Largo’s home was “brash” and “not just unprecedented,” but completely useless “.
He said Mr. Trump and its representatives went “scrupulously to communicate and cooperate with appropriate agencies,” adding: “These disgusting acts of Joe Bidenthe administration would make a third world dictator blush. “
His comments come when another of Trump’s aides, Scott Perry, claims that his cell phone was seized by FBI agents with a search warrant on Tuesday.
The full circumstances of the kidnapping were unclear, but the Republican said three officers visited him while he was traveling with his family and “stole my cell phone.”
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Former senior Justice Department officials testified at the investigation the January 6 riots at the United States Capitol that Perry played “a major role” in Trump’s effort to try to install Jeffrey Clark – a senior justice official who was pushing Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud – as interim attorney general.
The US Department of Justice has so far remained silent about the FBI’s search of Trump’s home, which according to Kristy Parker, a former federal prosecutor, meant they were carrying out a “textbook trial.”
He said: “Their job is to conduct investigations in accordance with the law and not to undermine the rights of the people they are investigating while doing so.
“What we’re seeing is a textbook process, and that’s a good sign that we have an independent Justice Department.”
A protester calling for Donald Trump’s arrest holds a sign in front of Trump Tower in New York City
The search for Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate he is part of an investigation into whether he brought confidential documents from the White House to his Florida residence.
The Justice Department and Attorney General Merrick Garland said nothing about the search, without even confirming that federal agents were in Mr. Trump’s property.
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Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday
Former prosecutor Randall Eliason said conducting such research was “such a huge and unprecedented thing … that I’m sure they wouldn’t do it unless they felt they had a pretty compelling reason.
“They won’t do it for some nickel or nickel case involving a guest list from a state dinner that was improperly removed from the White House,” he added.
Why are they investigating Trump?
After Donald Trump’s presidency ended in January last year, officials discovered he had brought 15 boxes from the White House to his home in Florida.
An investigation was launched by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the independent US government body charged with preserving historical and government records.
After asking for the boxes to be returned, in January of this year NARA discovered that they contained government documents, including those “marked as classified national security information”, as well as gifts, letters and mementos.
NARA then referred the case to the United States Department of Justice to investigate whether Trump’s unauthorized handling of the documents constituted a violation of federal law.
Some of the documents in the boxes are subject to the Presidential Records Act.
US President Richard Nixon went down in history for the Watergate scandal
Approved by Congress in the wake of the 1972 Watergate scandal, it stipulates that presidential documents are not owned by the then president and should be turned over to NARA when they leave office to be made public 12 years later.
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon following a raid on the Democratic National Committee headquarters and a subsequent investigation that revealed multiple abuses of power.
