Donald Trump has continued to fume after FBI agents recovered 11 sets of classified records from his Mar-a-Lago home, including some marked top secret and “sensitive compartmented information.
In a furious post on his Twitter knock-off platform, the former president claimed that the entire country is “angry” about the raid, which was authorized by a federal judge after the National Archives asked the department to investigate after saying 15 boxes of records it retrieved from the estate included classified records.
FBI agents recovered 11 sets of classified records from Mar-a-Lago, including some marked top secret and “sensitive compartmented information,” according to a property receipt unsealed by the court on Friday.
The warrant cited potential violations of three federal laws, including the Espionage Act, which makes it a crime to release information that could harm national security.
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Trump, who sent a mob of his supporters to the U.S. Capitol in an effort to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory, has decried the search of his home “as an attack on democracy.”
“America has never suffered this kind of ABUSE in Law Enforcement!” Trump posted on his Truth Social website on Sunday night.
“For the FBI to RAID the home of the 45 President of the United States, or any President for that matter, is totally unheard of and unthinkable. This Break In was a sneak attack on democracy (our Republic!), and was both unannounced and done at a time when the President was not even present,” Trump wrote before claiming that the raid was for “political, not legal reasons, and our entire Country is angry, hurt, and greatly embarrassed by it.”
However, a Politico/Consult poll conducted between August 9 and 11, before the warrant for the search was unsealed, found that a majority of Americans approve of the search. About 50 percent of likely voters approved of the FBI’s actions, while 46 percent disapproved, according to the survey.
A majority of respondents — 54 percent — said the search was conducted because of mishandling of classified information. Nearly a third said they believed the search was related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, a connection that has not been confirmed by the Justice Department or reported by media outlets, Politico reported.
Trump has accused FBI agents of rummaging through his wife Melania’s closets during the search and claimed it was carried out without witnesses, although his attorney Christina Bobb was at Mar-a-Lago during the search and signed two property receipts that listed what FBI agents had taken.
