Eric Trump Says Safe Cracked Open By FBI Was Empty (VIDEO)

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The FBI searched the Florida Home of former President Donald Trump on Monday, sparking outrage at the unprecedented treatment of a former president.

It began Monday morning and took several hours. It is highly unusual for a federal raid to take place at the residence of a former commander in chief.

The search centered around documents allegedly in Trump’s possession.

Trump took 15 boxes of material with him in January 2021 after he left Washington D.C.

The boxes were returned to the National Archives a year later in January 2022 but agents on Monday were looking to see if Trump had additional presidential records or any classified documents at his South Florida estate, the AP reported.

The raid was said to be court authorized and the FBI gave US Secret Service agents at Mar-a-Lago advance notice and they cooperated letting them into the property, NBC News reported.

But President Joe Biden’s White House had no heads up on the raid. Senior White House officials found out about the FBI’s Mar a Lago raid on Twitter, the New York Times reported.

The Justice Department wouldn’t say whether Attorney General Merrick Garland had personally authorized the search but it’s highly unlikely a raid on a former president would take place without the AG giving it the stamp of approval.

The FBI gave US Secret Service agents at Mar-a-Lago advance notice and they cooperated letting them into the property, NBC News reported. The Secret Service agents did not take part in the investigation or search.

Garland and his DOJ are under heavy political pressure of their own – from Democrats who want the former president indicted to Republicans who will blast any probe as election-year politics.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy warned Garland of payback. He pledged to investigate the raid if Republicans win control of the House in November, which they are expected to do.

‘Attorney General Garland, preserve your documents and clear you calendar,’ he said in a statement on Monday night.

Lara Trump told Fox News ‘look, my father-in-law, as anybody knows, who’s been around him a lot, loves to save things like newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, photographs, documents that he had every authority … to take from the White House.’

She called the raid an attempt to hurt him amid concerns her father-in-law may ‘announce any day that he’s running for president in 2024.’

Trump, in his posted announcement of the raid, didn’t say specifically what the federal agents were looking for, just that his Florida home was ‘under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents.’

“These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents. Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before,” Trump said in shocking statement released on Monday night

“They even broke into my safe!” the former president exclaimed.

“After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate,” Trump stated.

Newsmax’s Bernie Kerik responded to the unbelievable events:

“The Democrats and their hatchetmen have done everything they can to stop this man. Assassination is next. God save Donald Trump!”

Eric Trump accused the current administration of wanting to ‘attack Biden’s greatest threat’ as FBI agents ransacked his father Donald Trump’s office during the home raid, Daily Mail reports.

Eric Trump appeared on Hannity where he revealed he was the one who alerted his father to the raid and said his father’s office was ransacked but that agents found ‘nothing in the safe.’

Eric Trump said he was the one that got the call on the raid and told his father about it.

‘I was the guy who got the call this morning and I called my father and let him know it happened, and I was involved all day,’ he told Fox News host Sean Hannity. ‘Welcome to politics in the 2020s.’

‘To have 30 FBI agents — actually more than that — descend on Mar-a-Lago, give absolutely, you know, no notice, go through the gates, start ransacking an office, ransacking a closet — you know, they broke into a safe. He didn’t even have anything in the safe. I mean, give me a break.’

He charged President Joe Biden’s White House as the force behind the raid.

‘This didn’t come from a local FBI field office in Palm Beach, Florida. You know this came from? This came from one place and one building, and that is the White House in Washington, D.C. They want to attack a guy who they view as his greatest threat, Biden’s greatest threat,’ Eric Trump said.

Biden’s White House had no heads up on the matter. Senior White House officials found out about it via Twitter, the New York Times reported.

“My father never got so much as a speeding ticket in his life until he made one decision:

To go down the escalator…and go actually fight for this country…”

According to Eric Trump, the safe breached by the FBI was empty.

Source: The Republic Brief