DONALD TRUMP'S Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida has been raided by the FBI as part of an ongoing investigation into whether he took classified White House documents.
Agents descended on the 126-room Palm Beach mansion and conducted a search. The former president, 76, described the operation as an "unannounced raid" and said the FBI opened a safe.
American presidents are required by the Presidential Records Act to transfer all of their letters, work documents and emails to the National Archives (NA). In February, it asked the Justice Department to investigate Mr Trump for his handling of official papers.
NA officials claim he illegally ripped up many documents and records. Some of them had to be taped back together, they claimed. New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman also claims in a forthcoming book that staff at the White House sometimes found wads of paper clogging a toilet, and that they believed Mr Trump was the flusher.
A law enforcement official told CBS that the Secret Service was notified shortly before a search warrant was served at around 10am local time yesterday and that agents protecting Mr Trump helped the FBI.
Several boxes were taken away, the source said, adding that no doors were kicked down and that the raid had concluded by the late afternoon. It is believed that Mr Trump was in Trump Tower in New York at the time. The operation prompted dozens of angry Trump supporters to line the roads leading to the estate, many waving American flags.
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