District Judge Aileen Cannon declined to impose a gag order barring President Trump from making comments after he said that FBI agents were "locked and loaded" during their raid targeting his Mar-a-Lago residence in a separate case. Mr.
Trump, 76, hinted at a 2024 run for more than a year and formally announced his presidential bid in a prime-time speech at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida in November 2022.
President-elect Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Jan. 11 and his golf club the next day. She said she went to Florida at the invitation of Canadian entrepreneur and “Shark Tank” investor Kevin O'Leary.
The Democrat's four years as president will be bookended by Republican Donald Trump, whose Cabinet nominations, tariff threats, and glitzy evenings at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida club, have captured the public's attention since the November election.
He was named as the special counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland last year following the FBI's raid targeting Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach.
Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday asked a federal court to unseal the warrant itself, some supporting materials, and a receipt listing items taken by FBI agents from the Mar-a-Lago resort during the raid.
According to the network, he changed his mind after initially agreeing to a sit-down at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida last Thursday.
“Meanwhile, NARA instigated a public and unprecedented FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago—former President Trump’s home—to retrieve presidential records,” he said, adding the contrast in treatment “raises questions about political bias at the agency.”
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a press conference as President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth listen at Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla., on Jan. 3, 2026.
“I think I have the power to end this war, and I think it’s going very well," Trump said at a Feb. 18 press conference at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. “But today, I heard, ‘Oh, well, we weren’t invited.’
The former president's filing also noted that two months before the raid, FBI agents came to Mar-a-Lago and appeared to approve Trump placing a second lock on a storage door.
Trump involving allegations that he hoarded military secrets at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, the judge has ordered a trial date on May 20, 2024.
In another criminal case, a New York grand jury has indicted Mr.
The charges include deceiving insurers, tax officials, and lenders by allegedly inflating the value of the former president's properties, including his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
Smith's team had argued that the former president's allegations in May about FBI agents who carried out a search of his Mar-a-Lago residence in August 2022 would incite threats or harassment against law enforcement officials.
A former assistant director in the FBI said he believes the affidavit used to obtain a search warrant of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago reveals the government has "no case" against him.
A report this week alleged the former president told Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt confidential information about U.S. nuclear submarines during a meeting at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, of which Mr. Pratt is a member.
A lawyer for former President Donald Trump predicted that "almost nothing" will be revealed if a redacted version of the Department of Justice's (DOJ) affidavit in the FBI Mar-a-Lago raid is unsealed to the public.
