Republican lawmakers are demanding the affidavit used as the basis for the search warrant issued for former US President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach home be unsealed, arguing the extraordinary step of sending the FBI in to seize documents from a former president’s residence requires proof of equally extraordinary justification. Unsealing …
Read More »Obama kept classified nuclear documents too – Trump
Former US president Donald Trump has decried the apparent double standard at play after the FBI raided his Florida home earlier this week, supposedly seeking classified documents relating to nuclear weapons. Trump argued that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had taken some 33 million pages of documents – many classified, some …
Read More »Purported purpose of Trump FBI raid revealed
Classified documents about nuclear weapons were among the sensitive materials that the FBI was looking for when it raided the residence of former US President Donald Trump this week, the Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing its sources. According to experts interviewed by the outlet, the FBI raid on Trump’s …
Read More »The FBI’s Trump residence raid could mean he can’t run in 2024 – and his militant followers will rise up
The FBI carried out a raid on former US President Donald Trump’s Florida residence on Monday. It is not clear which specific investigation the search warrant is related to, however CNN claims to have heard from familiar sources that it relates to Trump’s handling of presidential documents. For his part, …
Read More »Trump has ‘made up his mind’ on 2024 presidential run – senior lawmaker
Former US president Donald Trump has “made up his mind” on whether to run for office again in 2024 and will announce his decision to the public soon, Republican Study Committee chairman Jim Banks said on Tuesday. Banks headed a group of almost a dozen House Republican Study Committee members, …
Read More »Republicans vow to investigate FBI’s Trump raid
US House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California) and other Republican lawmakers have condemned President Joe Biden’s administration for raiding the Florida home of Donald Trump, warning that they will investigate politicization of the Department of Justice (DOJ) when they take back control of Congress. “The Department of Justice has reached …
Read More »US is banana republic, governor says after FBI raid Trump’s home
The administration of US President Joe Biden is “weaponizing” federal agencies against his political opponents and turning the country into a “banana republic,” Governor Ron DeSantis said on Tuesday, responding to the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s Florida residence. Federal agents entered Mar-a-Lago on Monday night as part of an …
Read More »FBI raids Trump’s residence
FBI agents raided Donald Trump’s residence in Mar-A-Lago, Florida on Monday, in a move the former US president called politically motivated persecution. While the Justice Department has not officially commented on the operation yet, several major US news outlets reported the raid may have been related to boxes of classified …
Read More »Trump’s Kosovo envoy slams US over crisis
Richard Grenell, who negotiated a Kosovo-Serbia deal under the Trump administration after a turn in charge of the US intelligence community, on Sunday blamed the “reckless” prime minister in Pristina for the renewed tensions with Belgrade and slammed the State Department for enabling him. “What’s happening in the Balkans isn’t …
Read More »Trump talks 9/11 at Saudi-sponsored golf event
Former US President Donald Trump has defended his decision to host a Saudi-sponsored golf event at his course in New Jersey. With protesters blaming Saudi Arabia for the 9/11 terror attacks, Trump argued that “nobody’s gotten to the bottom” of the tragedy. A group representing families of 9/11 victims has …
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