Trump’s legal team stated that under the Presidential Records Act, it’s primarily up to the then-sitting president to determine whether those Mar-a-Lago materials seized by federal agents in early August constitute a government record, and the decision

Former US President Donald Trump's residence in Mar-A-Lago, Palm Beach, Fla., on Aug. 9, 2022.

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’s resort in Mar-a-Lago, Palm Breach.

Over 11,000 non-classified documents were also seized from Mar-a-Lago in the raid. Documents seized during the Aug. 8 raid by the FBI of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., in a photo released on Aug. 30, 2022.

About 100 records marked as classified were seized from Mar-a-Lago, Trump's home in Florida. The government and Trump have consistently disagreed over the status of the records.

No one’s surprised the Justice Department is hiding a document used to raid former President Donald Trump's home. Americans have seen this play before: It started when law enforcement concealed records framing Trump as a Russian spy.

Jan Jekielek: On August 8th, the FBI sent some 30 officers to Mar-a-Lago, who spent 10 hours there. It’s described as a raid. What was your reaction as this news hit? Victor Davis Hanson: There have been lots of disagreements about archives.

Documents at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on Aug. 8, 2022.

Constitutional lawyer Jonathan Turley wrote that a newly disclosed FBI photo taken at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago could leave a "misleading impression."

The same crew of FBI and DOJ people that launched the Russiagate investigation are now responsible for running this Trump Mar-a-Lago raid investigation. We've pointed it out.

NARA released a copy on Aug. 23. The boxes were transferred to NARA in mid-January from Mar-a-Lago, Trump's Florida resort, after months of negotiations, NARA has said.

The Mar-a-Lago raid "represents yet another example of the federal government weaponizing law enforcement to punish political enemies, silence critics, and send a message to those whom it views as enemies," Heritage President Kevin Roberts said in a separate

Federal agents told representatives at Mar-a-Lago to turn off cameras in the residence during the raid, one of Trump's attorneys told The Epoch Times. Former U.S. President Donald Trump's residence Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., on Aug. 9, 2022.

Gaetz said the means and methods used by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were intentionally chosen to be a “show of force.”

Whatever they decide, they shouldn't imagine that, if he chooses to seek reelection, Trump will be easy for this administration to defeat whether he's charged over the Keystone Kops affair at Mar-a-Lago or not.

It "defies rational explanation" to think that the FBI raid of the former First Family's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida is not motivated by "pure politics," according to Jeffrey Clark, a lawyer in the Justice Department during the Trump administration.

"A horrible thing that took place yesterday at Mar-a-Lago," Trump wrote. "We are no better than a third world country, a banana republic."

President Donald Trump at Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on Aug. 9, 2022. (Giorgio Viera/AFP via Getty Images) No Statutory Grounds Some lawmakers may seek to invoke 18 U.S.

In a win for the Justice Department, it regains access to documents marked classified from Mar-a-Lago—allowing it to resume its criminal probe into former President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home after FBI agents raided it, in Palm Beach, Fla., on Aug. 15, 2022.

Meanwhile, newly released information on the Mar-a-Lago raid suggests President Joe Biden played a direct role in authorizing the FBI to access Trump’s documents.

According to a new filing (pdf), certain documents that the FBI found during the Aug. 8 Mar-a-Lago raid had “colored cover sheets indicating their classification status.”

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee have cast doubt on the accuracy of the National Archives' previous letter on its role in a raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in light of recent reports.

The Justice Department further asked that the "room at Mar-a-Lago where the documents had been stored be secured and that all of the boxes that were moved from the White House to Mar-a-Lago (along with any other items in that room) be preserved in that

A recent legal motion from former President Donald Trump on Monday said the 45th president invited FBI agents to come to Mar-a-Lago two months before the raid on his property.

The White House says it didn't know about the Mar-a-Lago raid beforehand, but new evidence obtained by America First Legal Foundation suggests otherwise. A senior adviser at the foundation weighs in.

But if the authorities “lied” about the facts of the case, “that's a different story.” The raid at the Mar-a-Lago property where Trump lives could set a dangerous precedent, Levey said.

Supporters of former President Donald Trump stand outside his residence in Mar-A-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida on Aug. 8, 2022.

Danielle interviews Trump lawyer Christina Bobb about the latest on the Mar-a-Lago raid and what we can expect moving forward with lawsuits.

In this episode of Kash’s Corner, Kash Patel dives into the Mar-a-Lago raid and the many unanswered questions surrounding it. “Nothing these guys do is inadvertent.