FBI searches Trump's residence, Biden unaware of the blitz

"US President Joe Biden was not informed of the FBI raid on Donald Trump's Florida residence. Nobody in the White House knew."

Thus Karine Jean-Pierre, in a press briefing in reference to the search in the sumptuous villa of the former president, underlining that "the Justice Department is independent and conducts its investigations autonomously".

Trump himself gave the bombshell in a statement to CNN in which he defined the raid as a political attack against his candidacy in the 2024 elections. No confirmation for the moment from the Department of Justice or the Agency.

Donald Trump was not in the residence when the feds arrived but was at Trump Tower in New York, where he usually spends the summer.

It is an "exploitation of justice and an attack by radical left-wing Democrats who desperately want to prevent me from running for election in 2024", thundered Trump in the statement in which he revealed the search.

"These are dark times for our nation: my beautiful home, Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, searched and occupied by a large group of FBI agents. They even raided the house. my safe! ", he attacked.

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Now it's time to figure out what the federal agents were looking for.

According to three sources who spoke to CNN, the blitz took place as part of the investigation into the 15 boxes of classified documents that Trump allegedly took away from the White House after the end of the former president's term.

A federal crime, which the former president has always denied.

But the search could also have to do with the investigation into the Capitol Hill assault on January 6, 2021 after the circle has tightened around Trump in recent weeks and the Justice Department has begun to investigate his behavior in the days before the revolt.

The FBI removed boxes of documents from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago, Florida residence after ransacking it, CNN reveals.

The safe searched by FBI agents is in the former president's office, according to CNN.

According to former spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham, the former president "did not handle confidential documents properly. I saw him go through the documents, throw some away, tear off others and put others in his pocket."

The search of the residence in Mar-a-Lago began around 10 in the morning on Monday (16 in Italy) but the news was released only in the evening by the former president himself.