{"id":1597715,"date":"2022-08-09T18:18:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T22:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1597715"},"modified":"2022-08-09T18:18:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T22:18:29","slug":"fbi-trump-home-raid-improperly-intrusive-circumstances-indicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-trump-home-raid-improperly-intrusive-circumstances-indicate\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Trump Home Raid Improperly Intrusive, Circumstances Indicate"},"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\">16<\/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%2Ffbi-trump-home-raid-improperly-intrusive-circumstances-indicate%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=1597715&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>There\u2019s a reason to suspect the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-fbi\">FBI<\/a> searching the Florida residence of former President Donald Trump was improperly intrusive, according to several lawyers. The raid prompted a rebuke from Trump and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/enough-house-gop-pledges-investigation-of-doj-with-november-win-after-fbi-raids-trumps-mar-a-lago_4651828.html\">Republicans more broadly<\/a> and further escalated political tensions in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>About two dozen FBI agents entered Trump\u2019s Palm Beach resort of Mar-A-Lago around 9 p.m. on Aug. 8 and left about 10 hours later with \u201ca handful of boxes of documents,\u201d one of Trump\u2019s attorneys on scene, Christina Bobb, told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t actually get to oversee the search, they wouldn\u2019t let anybody see what they were doing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear what legal basis the FBI had for the raid. The agents had a search warrant signed by a judge, but the affidavit explaining the basis\u2014its probable cause\u2014was filed under seal and Trump\u2019s lawyers weren\u2019t allowed to examine it, Bobb said.<\/p>\n<p>In general, the agents were looking for \u201cwhat they deemed to be presidential records,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think there was anything of substance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s legal team will take steps to obtain the affidavit, she said.<\/p>\n<p>There has been some back-and-forth between National Archives and Trump over whether he still has some documents that should be stored at the archives under the U.S. Presidential Records Act.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has been cooperative on that front, Bobb said, and even invited the FBI previously to Mar-A-Lago to examine the White House records he had in storage at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing had been hidden and nothing had been kept secret from them, which makes this all the more ridiculous,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p> Potentially illegal <\/p>\n<p>The raid may have been illegally invasive, according to former federal prosecutor Mike Davis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder the case law, you can\u2019t do a home raid if you can secure the documents through less intrusive means,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v1fd61t-davis-fbis-illegal-warrant-for-president-trump-is-unprecedented-for-america.html\">he<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a reason to suspect the FBI searching the Florida residence of former President Donald Trump was improperly intrusive, according to several lawyers. The raid prompted a rebuke from Trump and Republicans more broadly and further escalated political tensions in the nation. About two dozen FBI agents entered Trump\u2019s Palm Beach resort of Mar-A-Lago around [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"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-1597715","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\/1597715","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\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597715\/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=1597715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}