While some described the unprecedented inspection of the home of a former US president, as a "preemptive coup" attempt to prevent Trump from running in 2024, other observers believe that it may increase his chances of running and support it politically and propaganda within the slogan of his campaign based mainly on his exposure to injustice.
In an incident that is the first of its kind for a former US president, former US President Donald Trump said in a statement published on Monday, "My beautiful home in Palm Beach, Florida is now under siege, and has been occupied by a large group of FBI agents. The raid took place without any prior notification." ".
While Trump claimed that FBI agents broke his personal safe and confiscated what was in it, the Associated Press quoted informed sources, that the raid was carried out with judicial permission and with the approval of the FBI director and the Minister of Justice, in search of missing confidential government documents that Trump refused to hand over after Leaving the White House.
According to Reuters, which quoted an informed source, the FBI raid on Trump's home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida appears to be linked to Trump's transfer of classified records from the White House shortly after he left office. Especially since there is a federal law obligating the preservation of records, memos and letters on the official duties of the president.
Trump's Secret Documents
While the Department of Justice declined to comment on the raid, several US media outlets said the raid was linked to investigative procedures in which the US National Archives and Records Administration notified Congress in February that it had recovered about 15 boxes of White House documents from Trump's Florida home, some of them It contains classified material, and that the matter has nothing to do with the congressional committee's investigation into the storming of the Capitol in January 2021.
For his part, the son of the former president, Eric Trump , confirmed to Fox News that the search was related to boxes of documents that Trump brought with him from the White House, and that his father had been cooperating with the National Registries in this regard for months. Earlier, Trump said he had agreed to return some of the records to the Archives, describing it as a "normal, routine process."
In addition to investigations related to the congressional storming and those related to Trump's private business, critics considered the unprecedented search of a former president's home as a major escalation against Trump in a series of attacks under his successor Joe Biden administration aimed at preventing his candidacy in the 2024 elections.
Is Trump subjected to a "preemptive coup"?
As Trump described the latest raid as “a misconduct by prosecutors, a weaponized use of the justice system, and an attack by far-left Democrats who are desperately trying not to run for president in 2024,” the former CIA official said, CIA Book Sexton said the raid on former President Donald Trump's residence looked like a " pre- emptive coup ."
Speaking about the FBI's raid and search of Trump's residence in Florida, Sexton said, "It sounds like a preemptive coup. Ban Donald Trump from running for re-election.
Sexton continued, describing what happened as "outrageous, and using the FBI in this way raises questions for many Americans about the possibility of trusting the FBI again, or the Department of Justice." "I don't get easily upset or worried about politics in our country, but this is a border that has been breached, and something we haven't seen before," he continued.
Will he announce his candidacy soon?
During the Conservative Political Action Conference in Texas on Saturday, former President Donald Trump made another joke that he will soon announce he is running for president in 2024, saying, "We'll make America proud again. We'll make America safe again. We'll make America great again." . "I ran twice, won twice and we may have to do it again," he added.
According to a report published by NBC News , despite the FBI raid on Trump's home and the increase in opposition within the Republican Party to his candidacy, Trump believes that filing an indictment can help politically and reinforce his propaganda slogan that promotes him as an oppressed.
In response to the raid on Trump's residence, US House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy pledged to conduct a thorough investigation into the raid when his party has a majority in the House. While the head of the Republican National Committee accused the Democratic Party of violating the law, "abusing power and using the bureaucracy as a weapon against the Republicans."
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