Secret service officers near the home of former US President Donald Trump in Mar-a-Lago. File photoWASHINGTON, Aug 11Former U.S. President Donald Trump said Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents prevented anyone, including lawyers, from attending Monday's raids on his Mar-a-Lago estate or be in the vicinity.
"The FBI and other federal officials did not allow anyone, including my lawyers, to approach the sites that were searched or otherwise inspected during the raid on (estate) in Mar-a-Lago. Everyone was asked to leave the premises — they wanted to be left alone and without witnesses,» Trump said in a statement published on his Telegram channel.
insisted that no one was watching them, and everyone left.» «(Former U.S. Presidents) Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have never been 'raided' despite great disagreements,» Trump said indignantly. On Monday evening, Trump said his Mar-a-Lago estate had been searched by FBI agents. The New York Times, citing sources, claims that the FBI was most likely interested in the documents that Trump took with him from the White House. In February, the Washington Post reported that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) seized from the estate of the ex-president several boxes of documents that he took out of the White House. The Politico publication claims that Trump was in New York during the search.