Eric Trump suggests safe and sound breached by FBI in Mar-a-Lago search was empty

Abigail Adcox

August 08, 10:14 PM August 08, 11:32 PM

Eric Trump ssupport his father, Donald Trump, had nothing at all in a risk-free they declare the FBI breached as aspect of a raid of the previous president's Mar-a-Largo resort on Monday.

The next son of the 45th president claimed he was with his father in New York Town when they found out about the look for, and he indicated that it was related to data that Donald Trump introduced back with him to his vacation resort in Florida after leaving office.

TRUMP Claims FBI 'RAIDED' MAR-A-LAGO

"Now, to have 30 FBI agents, truly extra than that, descend on Mar-a-Largo, give definitely no discover, go by way of the gate, commence ransacking an business office, ransacking a closet, you know — they broke into a harmless. He did not even have something in the protected," Eric Trump explained to WHD News.

Donald Trump mentioned in a assertion before Monday that his Florida home was "below siege" by the FBI and claimed brokers "broke into [his] protected."

Eric Trump, who is an government vice president at the Trump Firm, mentioned his father "will save" and retains substantial data of things these types of as press clippings, photographs, notes from his youngsters, letters from his ex-wife, and additional.

"The objective of the raid, from what they claimed, was for the reason that the Countrywide Archives needed to cooperate, no matter if or not Donald Trump experienced any paperwork in his possession," Eric Trump stated. "My father has worked so collaboratively with them for months. In actuality, the attorney that is been performing on this was thoroughly shocked. He goes, 'I have this sort of [an] wonderful romantic relationship with these people.' And all of a sudden, no see, they send, you know, 20 autos and 30 brokers. ... I imply, this is just additional political persecution of Donald J. Trump."

Information stored at Donald Trump's resort were collected by the Countrywide Archives in January after the agency had determined documents taken off from the White Household. The company reported its officers had attained 15 boxes of records from Mar-a-Lago, like products marked as categorised nationwide safety info, that ended up not presented to the National Archives, as is expected by the Presidential Information Act.

The Justice Office and the FBI declined to comment on the lookup. The FBI notified Top secret Support that a warrant would be executed, and Solution Service brokers facilitated obtain to the vacation resort but did not get portion in the look for by itself, for each NBC News. A senior White House formal explained to CBS News that the president's staff experienced no prior recognize of the raid, with some West Wing workers discovering of it on social media.

The raid lasted around from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., and a few attorneys symbolizing Donald Trump confirmed up as the research was conducted, men and women acquainted with the research informed NewsNation. Through the raid, FBI agents donning road clothing grabbed paperwork and boxes and broke open a resort-fashion risk-free positioned in Donald Trump's place of work. Agents were being only approved to take away items from the property similar to the research, for each the report.

Eric Trump criticized the raid as being politically motivated by fears that Donald Trump will operate for president in 2024.

"They know and they get worried that Donald Trump will come back again in and earn this pretty easily," Eric Trump stated.