{"id":1595576,"date":"2022-08-09T04:03:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T08:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1595576"},"modified":"2022-08-09T04:03:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T08:03:18","slug":"pompeo-desantis-respond-to-fbi-raid-at-trumps-mar-a-largo-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pompeo-desantis-respond-to-fbi-raid-at-trumps-mar-a-largo-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Pompeo, DeSantis Respond to FBI Raid at Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Largo Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpompeo-desantis-respond-to-fbi-raid-at-trumps-mar-a-largo-home%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1595576&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other GOP leaders have responded to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-fbi\">FBI<\/a> search of the 45th President\u2019s Florida Mar-a-Lago home after former president\u00a0Donald Trump said it was \u201ccurrently under siege, raided, and occupied\u201d on Aug. 8.<\/p>\n<p>Decrying the alleged raid in a post on his social media app, Truth Social,\u00a0Trump said, \u201cthese are dark times for our Nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to Twitter following Trump\u2019s post, Republican leaders condemned the alleged raid, with several warning that such a move could set a dangerous precedent, while others accused the\u00a0Biden administration of weaponizing the Justice Department for political purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo, the former secretary of state under Trump, said that executing a warrant against a former president of the United States was a \u201cdangerous\u201d precedent to set.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe apparent political weaponization of DOJ\/FBI is shameful. AG must explain why 250 yrs of practice was upended with this raid,\u201d\u00a0Pompeo <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikepompeo\/status\/1556831532735729664\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cI served on Benghazi Com where we proved Hilliary (sic) possessed classified info. We didn\u2019t raid her home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/08\/09\/Mar-a-Lago-GettyImages-1370002085-1200x809.jpg\"><\/a> A car passes in front of former President Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., on Feb. 11, 2022. (Joe Raedle\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>The raid is mostly likely connected to an investigation regarding Trump\u2019s handling of official papers. His lawyer, Christina Bobb, confirmed with CNN on Monday night that the FBI had seized documents during their search at his\u00a0Mar-a-Lago home.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI is directed by Christopher Wray who was appointed by Trump.<\/p>\n<p> \u2018Banana Republic\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonDeSantisFL\/status\/1556803433939755010\">said<\/a> the raid of Trump\u2019s home represents \u201canother escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime\u2019s political opponents,\u201d while noting that people like President Joe Biden\u2019s son Hunter Biden \u201cget treated with kid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other GOP leaders have responded to an FBI search of the 45th President\u2019s Florida Mar-a-Lago home after former president\u00a0Donald Trump said it was \u201ccurrently under siege, raided, and occupied\u201d on Aug. 8. Decrying the alleged raid in a post on his social media app, Truth Social,\u00a0Trump said, \u201cthese [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1595576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}