Trump says FBI agents raided his Florida home | 3NEWS.com

Donald Trump has said his Florida home was raided by the FBI, in a dramatic escalation of the legal investigations into the former US president.

The government agency said in February that it had retrieved 15 boxes of papers from Mar-a-Lago, which Mr Trump should have turned over when he left the White House

It later told Congress the boxes included items marked as classified national security information and asked the Justice Department to investigate.

The FBI and the Justice Department rarely comment on active investigations and neither has issued a statement.

House of Representatives Republican minority leader Kevin McCarthy said: “The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponised politicisation.”

The White House has said it is limiting its interactions with Justice Department officials to avoid any hint of political pressure or impropriety.

A House of Representatives select committee is investigating Mr Trump’s actions surrounding the US Capitol riot on 6 January 2021 – when Trump supporters rioted at the Congress building in Washington DC as lawmakers met to certify Mr Biden’s election victoryThe Justice Department is examining the former president’s challenge to the results of the A prosecutor in Fulton County, Georgia, is investigating whether Mr Trump and his associates tried to interfere in that state’s results from the electionOn top of that, Mr Trump faces a further array of lawsuits ranging from allegations of fraud, to inflating asset values, to sexual harassment