45th President Donald Trump on Wednesday reported that the FBI agents conducting the raid on his Florida resort residence did not allow anyone, including his lawyers, to witness their actions and questioned whether agents could have planted evidence.
“The FBI and others from the Federal Government would not let anyone, including my lawyers, be anywhere near the areas that were rummaged and otherwise looked at during the raid on Mar-a-Lago,” Trump said Wednesday on his social media platform Truth Social.
“Everyone was asked to leave the premises, they wanted to be left alone, without any witnesses to see what they were doing, taking or, hopefully not, ‘planting,'” Trump wrote.
“Why did they STRONGLY insist on having nobody watching them, everybody out? Obama and Clinton were never ‘raided,’ despite big disputes!”
Trump August 10th Truth Social Post
According to two undisclosed senior government officials with direct knowledge of the operation, per Newsweek, the large scale raid on Trump’s home was mostly based on information that came from a confidential FBI asset.
They claim that the FBI informant told the federal agency that Trump was “hiding” classified documents, managed to describe exactly what those documents were, and pinpointed the precise location of the documents before the raid took place.
A separate report from British publication Politicalite claims that a “disloyal aide” had “planted” classified documents within a box during the time Trump had vacated the White House in January of 2021, according to a “top Trump source.”
“They [the FBI] won’t come out empty handed,” the source told Politicalite. “As if Trump were stupid enough to do what they said he did. The only thing that could have happened is that a disloyal aid planted it in a box that was moved out in January of 2021.”
“They wouldn’t have gone in without expecting a result,” the source added.
