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On a sunny Monday morning, Aug. 8, a new set of agents arrived and began a search for documents at around 9 a.m. The warrant, signed by a judge in Palm Beach County, refers to the Presidential Records Act and possible violation of law over handling of classified information, according to Christina Bobb, a lawyer for the former president. The warrant hasn’t been made public by Mr. Trump nor has the inventory of documents retrieved by the government.
FBI officials showed up with instructions to keep the search as unobtrusive as possible, with agents dressed in plainclothes and told not to take any weapons, people familiar with the plan said. The Secret Service was notified and then Mr. Trump’s lawyers. On site, the FBI asked for several things, according to a person familiar, including a diagram of the sprawling building and that surveillance cameras be turned off, citing officer safety.
Dressed in T-shirts and cargo pants, the agents targeted three rooms—a bedroom, an office and a storage room, one of the people said. The agents went undetected for most of the day until a Florida political blogger tweeted about it and Mr. Trump issued a statement saying his home was “under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents.”
www.wsj.com
FBI officials showed up with instructions to keep the search as unobtrusive as possible, with agents dressed in plainclothes and told not to take any weapons, people familiar with the plan said. The Secret Service was notified and then Mr. Trump’s lawyers. On site, the FBI asked for several things, according to a person familiar, including a diagram of the sprawling building and that surveillance cameras be turned off, citing officer safety.
Dressed in T-shirts and cargo pants, the agents targeted three rooms—a bedroom, an office and a storage room, one of the people said. The agents went undetected for most of the day until a Florida political blogger tweeted about it and Mr. Trump issued a statement saying his home was “under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents.”
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In June, the FBI asked for a stronger lock to be installed on a Mar-a-Lago storage-room door, behind which were government records. Then, relations between the FBI and the former president’s associates went downhill.
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