{"id":1597872,"date":"2022-08-09T20:03:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T00:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1597872"},"modified":"2022-08-09T20:03:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T00:03:22","slug":"rep-scott-perry-says-fbi-seized-his-cell-phone-after-mar-a-lago-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-scott-perry-says-fbi-seized-his-cell-phone-after-mar-a-lago-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Scott Perry Says FBI Seized His Cell Phone After Mar-a-Lago Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Frep-scott-perry-says-fbi-seized-his-cell-phone-after-mar-a-lago-raid%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=1597872&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>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-scott-perry\">Scott Perry<\/a> (R-Pa.), an ally of President Donald Trump, says the Federal Bureau of Investigation (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-fbi\">FBI<\/a>) seized his cellphone a day after it executed a search warrant at Trump\u2019s resort in Mar-a-Lago, Palm Breach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis morning, while traveling with my family, three FBI agents visited me and seized my cell phone,\u201d reads a statement from Perry\u2019s office. \u201cThey made no attempt to contact my lawyer, who would have made arrangements for them to have my phone if that was their wish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m outraged\u2014though not surprised\u2014that the FBI under the direction of [Attorney General] Merrick Garland\u2019s [Department of Justice (DOJ)], would seize the phone of a sitting Member of Congress,\u201d the congressman said in the statement provided to The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy phone contains info about my legislative and political activities, and personal\/private discussions with my wife, family, constituents, and friends. None of this is the government\u2019s business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The seizure comes a day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/trump-fbi-has-raided-mar-a-lago-property-under-siege_4651554.html\">the FBI raided Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago property<\/a>. It is not immediately clear if the move is related to the raid or the investigations of the Jan. 6 Committee, which has subpoenaed Perry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs with President Trump last night, DOJ chose this unnecessary and aggressive action instead of simply contacting my attorneys,\u201d the statement from Perry\u2019s office reads. \u201cThese kinds of banana republic tactics should concern every Citizen\u2014especially considering the decision before Congress this week to hire 87,000 new IRS agents to further persecute law-abiding Citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s lawyer, Christina Bobb, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/fbi-agents-were-looking-for-classified-records-took-boxes-of-documents-from-trump-resort-lawyer_4653446.html\">told The Epoch Times<\/a> on Tuesday that FBI agents were looking for \u201cwhat they deemed to be presidential records\u201d and seized documents from Trump\u2019s property.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had been very cooperative with them before. And it\u2019s unclear to me why they went to such drastic measures to do this. But they did. And as far as the probable cause goes,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), an ally of President Donald Trump, says the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seized his cellphone a day after it executed a search warrant at Trump\u2019s resort in Mar-a-Lago, Palm Breach. \u201cThis morning, while traveling with my family, three FBI agents visited me and seized my cell phone,\u201d reads a statement [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":720,"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-1597872","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\/1597872","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\/720"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597872\/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=1597872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}