Tue Aug 16, 2022 – 11:18 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Donald Trump announced Monday that the FBI “stole” multiple passports from his Mar-a-Lago residence as part of the unprecedented raid on his estate last week, before having them returned later by the agency.
The former president took to social media Monday afternoon to announce that the agency had taken “three passports (one expired), along with everything else” during the August 8 search of his Florida mansion, describing the raid as “an assault on a political opponent at a level never before seen in our country.”
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“Third world!” he blasted on his Truth Social account.
NEW: Trump says the FBI “stole” his passports during Mar-A-Lago raid pic.twitter.com/koe8qEMzYx
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 15, 2022
Hours later, in comments to NBC News, the Department of Justice admitted that the passports had been seized but that the FBI has now returned them to the former president.
A statement later released by the FBI said that while “executing search warrants, the FBI follows search and seizure procedures ordered by courts, then returns items that do not need
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