GOP Lawmaker Reveals Trump’s Mindset 1 Day After FBI Raid

A top House Republican lawmaker said he visited former President Donald Trump at his New Jersey home on Aug. 9, revealing Trump’s mindset following the unprecedented FBI raid on Aug. 8.

Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), chairman of the House Republican Study Committee, said in an interview that Trump is “very upbeat” and has “made up his mind” about 2024. In the visit with the former commander in chief, Banks was accompanied by about a dozen other members of his caucus.

“He didn’t seem defeated in the least bit—he was very fired up, very upbeat,” Banks told Fox News of Trump’s mindset, coming one day after the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida.

“He said we are going to like his decision and it is only a matter of time before he will make that decision known,” Banks told the outlet, adding that he and other lawmakers called on Trump to make a decision on whether to run “sooner rather than later.”

The former president “only helps us win back more seats in November,” Banks said. “The Republican Party is bigger and stronger than ever before because of Donald Trump’s leadership.”

On the evening of Aug. 8, Trump said on Truth Social that Mar-a-Lago was raided by FBI agents. Neither the Department of Justice nor the FBI has publicly commented on the raid. The two agencies didn’t respond by press time to repeated requests by The Epoch Times for comment.

A spokesperson for Trump said that the agents were searching the premises for documents.

Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) speaks about Iran to the media with members of the Republican Study Committee in Washington on April 21, 2021. (Joshua Roberts/Getty Images)

The agents spent about 10 hours there and left with “a handful of boxes of documents,” Trump

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