Devin Nunes Sees Parallels Between Russia Investigation and the Raid on Mar-a-Lago

The FBI’s raid on Donald Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago represents another example of the Democratic party’s objective to politically “target” and “destroy” the former president, according to former U.S. Rep. and current Trump Media and Technology Group CEO Devin Nunes.

On Aug. 8, Trump released a statement saying that “a large group of FBI agents” raided his home at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla.

He called it a “weaponization of the justice system” and an “attack by the radical left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for president in 2024.”

In a press release, Trump added, “They even broke into my safe!”

The events of Aug. 8 were about “people that are after power, trying to destroy their political enemies, which is what happens in Third World countries where one party works to destroy the other party,” Nunes told The Epoch Times.

“It’s been nonstop for five years against [former] president Trump because, look, he was a disrupter,” Nunes said.

“He was not somebody from politics. He had never worked in Washington. And he came in and said, ‘Look, we’re going to do things differently. And he shocked the ruling class in this country. And they’ve never forgiven him.”

Trump is under scrutiny for a variety of issues that range from the U.S. Capitol breach on Jan. 6, 2021, to his family’s business dealings.

The FBI converged on Mar-a-Lago reportedly in pursuit of evidence on whether Trump mishandled classified information when he took White House documents with him upon leaving Washington on Jan. 20, 2021.

Trump, who was investigated by the FBI over now discredited allegations of colluding with Russians in the 2016 presidential campaign, has yet to announce if he will run for president in 2024, but many political pundits believe that will happen.

Nunes was a U.S.