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In a statement, the ex-president described the incident as 'an unannounced raid' and did not specify what was taken.

“Because Nara identified classified information in the boxes,” the chief archivist David Ferriero said in a letter to Congress at the time, “Nara staff has been in communication with the Department of Justice.” By the time Trump issued the statement, suggesting the raid was ongoing, the FBI had already left the property. The Justice Department has been quietly examining the prospect of opening a criminal investigation into the matter of Trump’s removal of documents since at least April, according to a source with knowledge of the inquiry.

Images published ahead of new book on 45th presidency offer possible evidence of violations of Presidential Records Act.

Trump, described by Axios as “a notorious destroyer of Oval Office documents”, was the alleged flusher. Most words are illegible, but one name that is clearly visible is that of the New York Republican congresswoman and potential 2024 running mate Elise Stefanik. “You have to be pretty desperate to sell books if pictures of paper in a toilet bowl is part of your promotional plan,” a Trump spokesperson, Taylor Budowich, told Axios in advance of Monday’s report.

The former US president says the allegedly unannounced FBI raid on his Palm Beach home is "not necessary or appropriate".

Another statute makes it a crime to mishandle classified records either intentionally or in a grossly negligent manner. A separate investigation related to efforts by Mr Trump's allies to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election and the January 6 riot at the US Capitol has also been intensifying in Washington. The Justice Department has been investigating the discovery of boxes of records containing classified information that were taken to Mar-a-Lago after Mr Trump left office.

Former US president Donald Trump says his Mar-a-Lago estate has been searched by FBI agents, a move he's slammed as "not necessary or appropriate".

The circumstances were not immediately clear. That matter was referred to the Justice Department by the National Archives and Records Administration, which said it had found classified material in 15 boxes at the residence. The Justice Department has been investigating the discovery of boxes of records containing classified information that were taken to Mar-a-Lago after Trump’s presidency had concluded.

Trump's son Eric told Fox News the raid was connected to documents sought by the National Archives. The agency has been investigating the removal of ...

The Washington Post reported the National Archives and Records Administration said it had retrieved 15 boxes of records containing classified information from Mar-a-Lago earlier this year. Get a note directly from our foreign correspondents on what’s making headlines around the world. The Justice Department has been probing the discovery of boxes of records containing classified information that were taken to Mar-a-Lago after Trump’s presidency had concluded. “What is the difference between this and Watergate, where operatives broke into the Democratic National Committee?” he asked, before claiming: “Here in reverse, Democrats broke into the home of the 45th president of the United States.” For the past year, a congressional committee has also been probing the 2021 attack on the US Capitol, culminating in a series of explosive hearings that have accused the former president of knowingly inciting the incident as part of a deliberate and coordinated attempt to overthrow the 2020 election. He said it concerned boxes of documents that Trump brought with him from the White House, and that his father has been cooperating with the National Archives on the matter for months.

That appears to be the intended destination of what look like torn-up presidential documents in photographs released by reporter Maggie Haberman to the news ...

An administration is allowed to exclude personal records that are purely private or don’t have an effect on the duties of a president. As soon as a president leaves office, the National Archivist gets legal custody of all of them Presidents are generally on their honor to be good stewards of history. The government compiles and preserves these records to give an accurate accounting of the leaders the country has chosen. At the conclusion of an administration, these documents form the basis for the formal collections of the Public Papers of the President. But these public documents have so far always been available to the public – and they’ve been available quickly. Until Trump, there have been no missing public speeches in the permanent collection. In most presidencies, the document or transcript is available a few days to a couple of weeks after any event. In 1957, the National Historical Publications Commission, a part of the National Archives, recommended developing a uniform system so all materials from presidencies could be archived. Haberman has a book coming out on former President Donald Trump in early October. One photo, allegedly of a White House toilet, shows a scrap of paper with what Haberman says is Trump’s handwriting on it, sitting at the bottom of the toilet bowl. In speeches that President George W. Bush gave in the 2002 midterm election period, he made the same joke more than 50 times as his icebreaker. Presidential speeches often give a different perception of an administration. This could be the first visual documentation of Trump’s already-reported habit of flushing documents down a White House toilet.

Columbus | Federal investigators raided the Florida residence of Donald Trump on Monday (Tuesday AEST) as part of an investigation into whether he took ...

The House committee investigating the January 6 riot also declined to comment. It also comes as the January 6 committee, and federal investigators, probe the actions of Mr Trump’s inner circle related to the fatal riot at the Capitol. Mr Trump would have been furious if anyone had sorted through the boxes to remove anything, aides said. Mr Trump wasn’t given a briefing on what to take and what not to, according to two people familiar with the matter. Some of those papers were among items boxed up and taken to Mar-a-Lago when he left office. The Archives in January retrieved 15 boxes of records from Mar-a-Lago. Mr Trump turned those documents over only after facing possible legal action over their removal.

Former US president Donald Trump said Monday that his Mar-A-Lago residence in Florida was being "raided" by FBI agents in what he called an act of ...

The National Archives said in February it had recovered 15 boxes of documents from Trump's Florida estate, which The Washington Post reported included highly classified texts, taken with him when he left Washington following his reelection defeat. Former US president Donald Trump said Monday that his Mar-A-Lago residence in Florida was being "raided" by FBI agents in what he called an act of "prosecutorial misconduct." The National Archives said in February 2022 it had recovered 15 boxes of documents from Donald Trump's Florida estate

How Mark Milley and others in the Pentagon handled the national-security threat posed by their own Commander-in-Chief.

“Milley would go right at why it’s important for the President to know this about the Army and why the Army is the service that wins all the nation’s wars. Urban told the President that he would connect better with Milley, who was loquacious and blunt to the point of being rude, and who had the Ivy League pedigree that always impressed Trump. “You should go to Europe and just get the fuck out of D.C.,” Kelly said. You shouldn’t run to be the chairman.” Milley later told people that he had replied sharply to Mattis, “I’m not lobbying for any fucking thing. “No, no, no, they were totally loyal to him,” the President replied. “I’m telling you it ain’t me.” Milley even claimed that he had begged Urban to cease promoting his candidacy. “These were very untalented people and once I realized it, I did not rely on them, I relied on the real generals and admirals within the system,” he said. The event seemed to be calculated to appeal to Trump—his sense of showmanship and grandiosity—and he was visibly delighted. But Trump’s love affair with “my generals” was brief, and in a statement for this article the former President confirmed how much he had soured on them over time. “Portugal was a dictatorship—and parades were about showing the people who had the guns. “So, what do you think of the parade?” Trump asked Selva. Instead of telling Trump what he wanted to hear, Selva was forthright. Struggling to dissuade Trump, officials pointed out that the parade would cost millions of dollars and tear up the streets of the capital.

Former President Donald Trump takes the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Texas, on August 6, 2022. (CNN) ...

But, Monday's FBI activity suggests that Trump's legal problems are likely to get worse before they get better. "Three former White House officials told CNN they saw Trump, on numerous occasions, manually destroy papers he was no longer interested in or had finished reviewing -- a practice that made it difficult for White House staff secretaries to preserve presidential records. Over the weekend, he convincingly won a straw poll Boxes of items were taken during the search, a source familiar with the investigation told CNN. Agents appear to be focused on the area of the sprawling estate where Trump's living quarters and offices are located. (Worth noting: Trump is not a lawyer.)

had searched the private residence of former President Donald J. Trump, with some suggesting that federal agents should be arrested and others hinting that the ...

Any FBI agent conducting law enforcement functions outside the purview of our State should be arrested upon sight.” “I’ve seen enough,” Representative Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader, wrote in a statement that he posted online. Mr. Trump and his allies have relentlessly disparaged the F.B.I. for taking the lead in the investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. And more recently, the former president’s allies in Congress and the media have sought to deflect blame from him by baselessly depicting the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol as a “false flag” operation run by the bureau and abetted by the Justice Department. “If they can do it to a former President, imagine what they can do to you,” the Twitter account for the House Republican caucus wrote. Hinting at a possible congressional investigation into the sitting attorney general if Republicans take control of the House in the midterm elections, Mr. McCarthy added, “Attorney General Garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar.” The attacks on the search of Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s beachfront domain in southern Florida, continued a longstanding reflex among his supporters to assail federal law-enforcement officials as biased and corrupt.

Ex-president complained to John Kelly 'why can't you be like the German generals?' according to excerpt from the New Yorker.

And in this country, we don’t do that.” He added: “It’s not who we are.” With each pushback, Trump’s admiration for the military advisers which he used to fawningly refer to as “my generals” cooled. Kelly reportedly told Trump that there were no American generals who observe total loyalty to a president. Kelly asked which generals, prompting Trump to reply: “The German generals in World War II.” During his time in the Oval Office, Donald Trump wanted the Pentagon’s generals to be like Nazi Germany’s generals in the second world war, according to a book excerpt in the New Yorker. According to the excerpt published by the New Yorker from The Divider: Trump in the White House, by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, an incredulous Kelly pointed out that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was almost assassinated by one of his own generals.

Donald Trump says a "large group of FBI agents" have raided his Mar-a-Lago estate and broken into his safe. Here's what we know.

The investigation focuses in part on a phone call Mr Trump made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, on January 2, 2021. Mr Trump says the alleged raid is an attack from those who want to impact his chances of running for president again. Mr Trump previously confirmed that he had agreed to return certain records to the archives, calling it "an ordinary and routine process." The US House of Representatives Oversight Committee announced at the time that it was expanding an investigation into how the documents ended up at Mar-a-Lago and Mr Trump's involvement, and asked the archives to turn over additional information. This morning Mr Trump released a statement saying his Florida home is "under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents". Former US president Donald Trump says a "large group of FBI agents" have raided his Mar-a-Lago estate and broken into his safe.

The former US president says his Palm Beach resort is being "occupied by a large group of FBI agents".

"No advance knowledge," said the senior official, who was not authorised to speak publicly about the matter. Mr Biden pledged during his White House campaign to stay out of justice department affairs. Attorney General Merrick Garland has said he intends to hold "everyone" accountable. Some of them had to be taped back together, the Archives said. "Sadly, America has now become one of those Countries, corrupt at a level not seen before. Mr Trump said it amounted to "prosecutorial misconduct" and "the weaponisation of the Justice System" to prevent him from running for the White House again.

Trump, who said on Monday night the FBI was at his home in Mar-a-Lago, faces a string of lawsuits and investigations.

Trump also could be charged with “seditious conspiracy,” a rarely used statute that makes it illegal to overthrow the US government by force. He accused her of lying to drum up sales for a book. The US House of Representatives Oversight Committee at that time said it was expanding an investigation into Trump’s actions and asked the Archives to turn over additional information. Trump and two of his adult children, Donald Trump Jr and Ivanka Trump, agreed to testify in the investigation starting on July 15. The investigation focuses in part on a phone call Trump made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, on January 2, 2021. A congressional panel investigating the January 6, 2021, assault by Trump supporters on the US Capitol is working to build a case that he broke the law in trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat.

Former US president Donald Trump says FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago estate and broke into his safe in what his son acknowledges is part of an investigation into Trump's removal of official presidential records from the White House to his Florida ...

He eventually returned them in January 2022. Trump is under investigation on a number of other fronts, including a congressional probe into the January 6, 2021, assault by Trump supporters on the US Capitol and accusations that Trump tried to influence Georgia's 2020 election results. Eric Trump, one of the former president's adult children, told Fox News the search concerned boxes of documents that Trump brought with him from the White House, and that his father has been co-operating with the National Archives on the matter for months. The US Justice Department declined to comment on the search, which Trump in a statement said involved a "large group of FBI agents". The unprecedented search of a former president's home would mark a significant escalation into the records investigation, which is one of several probes Trump is facing from his time in office and in private business. Former US president Donald Trump says FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago estate and broke into his safe in what his son acknowledges is part of an investigation into Trump's removal of official presidential records from the White House to his Florida resort.

Former US president Donald Trump says the FBI has conducted a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate. The circumstances were not immediately clear. Spokespeople for the FBI and the Justice Department did not return messages seeking comment on Monday evening.

He eventually returned them in January 2022. Trump is under investigation on a number of other fronts, including a congressional probe into the January 6, 2021, assault by Trump supporters on the US Capitol and accusations that Trump tried to influence Georgia's 2020 election results. Eric Trump, one of the former president's adult children, told Fox News the search concerned boxes of documents that Trump brought with him from the White House, and that his father has been co-operating with the National Archives on the matter for months. The US Justice Department declined to comment on the search, which Trump in a statement said involved a "large group of FBI agents". The unprecedented search of a former president's home would mark a significant escalation into the records investigation, which is one of several probes Trump is facing from his time in office and in private business. Former US president Donald Trump says FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago estate and broke into his safe in what his son acknowledges is part of an investigation into Trump's removal of official presidential records from the White House to his Florida resort.

Former US president Donald Trump says FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago estate and broke into his safe in what his son acknowledges is part of an investigation into Trump's removal of official presidential records from the White House to his Florida ...

He eventually returned them in January 2022. Trump is under investigation on a number of other fronts, including a congressional probe into the January 6, 2021, assault by Trump supporters on the US Capitol and accusations that Trump tried to influence Georgia's 2020 election results. Eric Trump, one of the former president's adult children, told Fox News the search concerned boxes of documents that Trump brought with him from the White House, and that his father has been co-operating with the National Archives on the matter for months. The US Justice Department declined to comment on the search, which Trump in a statement said involved a "large group of FBI agents". The unprecedented search of a former president's home would mark a significant escalation into the records investigation, which is one of several probes Trump is facing from his time in office and in private business. Former US president Donald Trump says FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago estate and broke into his safe in what his son acknowledges is part of an investigation into Trump's removal of official presidential records from the White House to his Florida resort.

Donald Trump's team and allies are moving swiftly to draw political benefit from an unannounced search by FBI agents at the former president's Mar-a-Lago ...

The search is the latest development in a months-long investigation into whether the Trump administration mishandled presidential records. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his office also weren’t given a heads up about the search. He eschewed making a media appearance even as Eric Trump took to Fox News, and his daughter-in-law, Lara, did the same. Focus groups of Trump 2020 voters have shown that even they have grown wary of the drama that accompanies his political ventures and are ready to move on. Both the person close to Trump and another individual who is in touch with the former president speculated that he would now expedite his decision to announce a presidential bid. Aides said they were pleased with a statement by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who vowed to take action against the Department of Justice over the FBI’s search. By the end of the night, the RNC had dashed off a fundraising text: “THIS IS NOT A DRILL: UNPRECEDENTED move Biden’s FBI RAIDS Pres. Trump’s home. The person noted papers were seized from the home, where Trump has kept his primary residence and set up his post-presidential office. While Trump’s team was bullish about the political benefits of being targeted by the FBI, the situation comes with clear and obvious downsides. The search would require the signoff of a federal judge or magistrate, who would issue the warrant based upon evidence of a potential crime. And, soon enough, a clear narrative emerged from them: The search represented a deliberate political targeting, one that underscored the Democrat’s perception of Trump as a political threat. The FBI and DOJ have declined to comment on the search.

Former US president Donald Trump says FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago estate and broke into his safe in...

He eventually returned them in January 2022. Trump is under investigation on a number of other fronts, including a congressional probe into the January 6, 2021, assault by Trump supporters on the US Capitol and accusations that Trump tried to influence Georgia's 2020 election results. Eric Trump, one of the former president's adult children, told Fox News the search concerned boxes of documents that Trump brought with him from the White House, and that his father has been co-operating with the National Archives on the matter for months. The US Justice Department declined to comment on the search, which Trump in a statement said involved a "large group of FBI agents". The unprecedented search of a former president's home would mark a significant escalation into the records investigation, which is one of several probes Trump is facing from his time in office and in private business. Former US president Donald Trump says FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago estate and broke into his safe in what his son acknowledges is part of an investigation into Trump's removal of official presidential records from the White House to his Florida resort.

Whether the DOJ is no longer scared of the Republicans, or the January 6 hearings have changed things, Trump is the subject of a serious criminal inquiry, ...

In the hours after the raid, Trump and his Republican allies made it clear that they thought they could gain a political advantage by casting themselves as the victims of an aggressive federal bureaucracy that was overstepping its authority. He didn’t want to pursue what could look like a politically motivated prosecution of a political opponent; he didn’t want to annoy the sizeable minority of the US that sees Trump as a beloved, almost messianic figure. The DOJ investigating Trump for his 15 boxes of documents is a bit like when the FBI was finally able to prosecute the mobster Al Capone – for tax evasion. But some accountability is better than none, and it could be that the agencies are pursuing the easiest possible case against Trump in an effort to leverage their way to more information. The raid is a significant escalation of the department’s relationship with Trump. It’s now difficult to think, as many of us long did, that the DOJ is unwilling to make Trump himself the object of a serious criminal inquiry. The former president has long been dogged by accusations that 15 boxes of secret material came with him from the White House to Mar-a-Lago after he was finally forced to leave office in January 2021, a move that would violate federal codes governing the destruction or removal of such materials.

Unprecedented search of an ex-president's home for official documents provoked outrage from supporters but proving intent will be key to any charge.

At the start of the meeting, Trump paid a visit and chatted to the investigators but without answering questions. In the end, the DoJ decided not to prosecute Clinton because it found no evidence of intent on her part. According to CNN, the extra boxes had been identified in June when DoJ investigators travelled to Mar-a-Lago to meet with two of Trump’s lawyers to discuss possibly classified material. Several prominent conservatives likened the search to the actions of a tinpot dictator. At the time, father and son were in Trump Tower in Manhattan, where the former president is preparing to be deposed in a civil lawsuit brought by New York state relating to his company’s financial bookkeeping. According to NBC News, they stayed on site most of the day.

WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. search of former President Donald J. Trump's residence in Florida has raised the question of whether the criminal investigation ...

“Yes, I recognize the legal challenge that application of this law to a president would garner (since qualifications are set in Constitution),” Mr. Elias wrote. After the Mar-a-Lago search warrant came to light, one of the most prominent voices pointing to Section 2071 was that of Marc Elias, who served as general counsel for Mrs. Clinton’s 2016 campaign. Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that the state had no power to add qualifications to the list of eligibility criteria established by the federal Constitution. In a 1969 case, the Supreme Court rejected an attempt by the House of Representatives, by majority vote, to block Adam Clayton Powell Jr. from taking his seat; voters in his district had re-elected him despite allegations of misconduct. Mrs. Clinton was never charged with any crime related to her use of the server. Notably, the Constitution does authorize Congress to render people ineligible to hold federal office as a penalty for convictions in impeachment proceedings. If convicted under that law, defendants can be fined up to $2,000 and sentenced to prison for up to three years. But there is reason for caution before concluding that if Mr. Trump were to be charged and convicted under that law, he could not legally return to the White House even if voters wanted him to. Early reports citing sources familiar with the matter have indicated that the criminal investigation behind the search warrant relates to suspicions that Mr. Trump unlawfully took government files with him when he left the White House. Section 2071 is not limited to classified information. There are several laws that could potentially cover such a situation. But by its nature, the warrant means a criminal investigation is underway.

Donald Trump had his own way of keeping records during his presidency: heaping documents in boxes, tearing up papers to signal a discussion was over, ...

Pence and Trump have been at political odds for months, with Trump endorsing Republican candidates who embrace his false claims about the 2020 election and ...

One reason that the Mar-a-Lago search might “unite [the] different factions in the party,” as a Trump aide told Politico, is that it isn’t pro-Trump but anti-FBI. Republicans from both the pro- and less-pro-Trump segments of the GOP get to express outrage at a group that Republicans are primed to distrust. Never quite as popular as Trump, he saw his favorability ratings with the GOP tank in the wake of Trump’s criticisms of him. Cast the FBI as the left, and you gain support on the right. In polling released on Tuesday, 2 in 5 Americans said they thought Trump should face criminal charges related to the Capitol riot. Pence’s argument that the FBI was politically motivated certainly derives largely from the narrative that Trump and his allies constructed to backstop that position. Following an example set in part by Trump himself, GOP officials rushed to offer up products in the robust marketplace of social media commentary. More than three-quarters of Republicans still view Trump favorably, down only slightly from the height of the 2020 campaign. The Barr probe led by special counsel John Durham is ongoing but has completely failed to demonstrate that the Russia investigation was not warranted by the facts available at the time. It also had an added benefit: Should the FBI launch further probes, his team would already be conditioned to respond with skepticism. Set aside Pence’s self-incriminating framing (that the FBI was acting on political motivation during the Trump-Pence administration), and remember where this idea originated. “… After years where FBI agents were found to be acting on political motivation during our administration, the appearance of continued partisanship by the Justice Department must be addressed.” The rationale was uncomplicated and now quite familiar: He didn’t want anyone thinking he had lost the race but for Russian involvement.

Former US president Donald Trump tried to turn the news of an FBI search of his Florida estate...

The Justice Department and FBI have declined to comment on or even confirm the search, which Trump revealed in a statement on Monday. "Attorney-General Garland and the Department of Justice should already have provided answers to the American people and must do so immediately," McConnell said in a statement. "They are trying to stop the Republican Party and me once more," Trump said in a fundraising email on Tuesday. Trump tried to paint the search as a politically motivated move by President Joe Biden's administration at a time when the former president is playing a key role in Republican primaries ahead of the November midterm elections that will determine control of the US Congress. The person said the FBI took about 10 boxes of papers, but that a safe that was searched was empty. Former US president Donald Trump has tried to turn the news that the FBI had searched his Florida estate to his benefit, citing the investigation in text messages and emails soliciting political donations from his supporters.

The FBI search at Mar-a-Lago prompts sincere talk of violence. But some threats remain mere threats.

The January 6 committee has adopted a counter-insurrection strategy by portraying Trump squarely as the leader of a violent movement, and not simply the leader of the GOP. But some of his more extreme followers are now turning on one another. Trump, as a former president of the United States, may be a rather unique leader of a violent insurrection, but that doesn’t make the ongoing, multiyear strategy any less effective. The FBI’s arrival at Mar-a-Lago yesterday evening to collect evidence in a criminal investigation related to former President Donald Trump is the trigger that some of his supporters needed to suggest that violence is imminent. Even on the night of the FBI search, in the area of Florida that he now calls home, an impromptu roadside demonstration in support of him attracted “roughly two dozen” supporters, the Miami Herald reported. The latest such propaganda is shocking to read, mostly because the talk of violence comes so casually to Trump’s apologists. The bad news is that much of this talk is sincere.

The unprecedented search marked a significant escalation of the federal investigation into whether Mr Trump illegally removed records from the White House as he ...

Mr Trump continues to falsely claim that the election was stolen through widespread voting fraud. “It is not certain that the bar set forth in the Government Records Act is constitutional,” said Mitchell Epner, a lawyer at the firm Rottenberg Lipman Rich and former federal prosecutor. FBI agents and a Trump lawyer, Evan Corcoran, spent a day reviewing materials, the source said. The request almost certainly also would be approved by FBI Director Christopher Wray, a Trump appointee, and his boss, Attorney General Merrick Garland, who was appointed by Mr Biden. It is a criminal offence to conceal or destroy government records. Mr Trump continues to publicly flirt with running again for president in 2024 but has not said clearly whether he will do so.

The Justice Department official who oversaw the investigation of Hillary Clinton's handling of classified records says there's simply no comparing the ...

Engel has testified to the Jan. 6 select committee about his resistance to Trump’s plan to remove Justice Department leaders and replace them with compliant officials who would support his effort to remain in power. In fact, some of the very Trump allies who cooperated with the House’s January 6 probe were among those charged by Trump with managing his presidential records after leaving office. In addition, Trump can speak to the nature of any potentially classified material that may have been the basis for the search and whether he took steps to declassify any of it as he left office. “He could describe what was at stake and what the point of disagreement was. CNN reported that one of the DOJ officials involved in the Trump investigation is his immediate successor. In the absence of more detailed information about the investigation, it’s unclear what potential crimes DOJ is probing.

Wednesday: Health minister says primary healthcare in 'worst shape' since Medicare began. Plus: Australia's highest and lowest income suburbs.

Shockwaves spread across the US in response to the news that the FBI had searched the private Florida residence of Donald Trump in an “unprecedented” move that prompted threats of retaliation from the former US president and his allies. “Are the Commonwealth Games a joyful extravaganza – or anachronistic, offensive and a waste of time?” Kieran Pender asks. Just before the May election was called, Dutton announced that Justin Bassi – then chief of staff to the then foreign affairs minister, Marise Payne – would be the institute’s new executive director. Documents show how Peter Dutton’s “captain’s call” as defence minister delivered a senior Coalition adviser the top job at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, ahead of the defence thinktank’s preferred candidate. A raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home has galvanised the US right, and Serena Williams is leaving professional tennis. Australia’s primary healthcare is in its “worst shape since Medicare began”, the health minister says.

Trump is believed to be pursuing a presidential run in 2024, and many calculate the Mar-a-Lago raid would benefit him politically.

The top comment on a pro-Trump message board was “Lock and load.” Trump is widely believed to be pursuing a presidential run in 2024, and many speculated that the raid would benefit him politically. Trump sought to exploit the investigation and encouraged chants of “lock her up” during campaign rallies. And in New York, the state attorney general, Letitia James, is leading an investigation into Trump’s family business. “It is a horrible precedent for the Department of Justice to investigate a former president of the United States,” said congressman Ted Lieu, a Democrat from California who was a manager during Trump’s second impeachment trial. “I’ve seen enough,” the California Republican wrote in a statement that he posted online.

Christina Bobb also said that Florida magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart signed off on the warrant that allowed FBI agents to search the former president's ...

The search of Trump’s expansive residence took hours on Monday. The former president was not at Mar-a-Lago during the search but at Trump Tower in New York, POLITICO reported. His lawyers likely have a copy of the search warrant, though they won’t have access to the affidavit or other documents that are typically kept confidential until the case is resolved. The former president has called the search unprecedented and politically motivated. Trump lawyer Christina Bobb fleshed out other details surrounding the case. Trump is likely best positioned to provide the details his allies are asking for. His son Eric Trump informed him of the FBI’s search of his property.

If Trump were convicted of illegally removing classified documents, he could “be disqualified from holding office” in the future.

“It is time to start talking about greatness for our country again … The best is yet to come.” Get a note directly from our foreign correspondents on what’s making headlines around the world. Time to take back Congress.” Legal experts say it wouldn’t be easy to get approval for a search warrant of this kind, particularly when it involves a former president. What’s more, to be disqualified from running would require someone to challenge his eligibility, which he could counter-challenge through the states or in court. “UNPRECEDENTED move Biden’s FBI RAIDS Pres Trump’s home.

Former US president Donald Trump is not known for his subtle use of language. But the announcement his Florida home was "under siege" by the FBI represented ...

Republican House minority leader wrote in a statement: "I've seen enough. "But often the way to satisfy a judge in that way is to point to the testimony of somebody who can speak from firsthand knowledge and say that the evidence is still there." "On the other hand, that is a very difficult line to draw because sometimes the Department of Justice could be accused of taking steps to influence an election by not acting." But that didn't stop Mr Trump's supporters and fellow Republicans swiftly accusing the FBI and DOJ of a political witch hunt targeting the former president to deter him from announcing his candidacy for 2024. "Now, it's possible that the government had found other ways to satisfy a judge that the there's reason to do the search and that the information is not stale," he said. The FBI needed to convince a federal judge of "probable cause", meaning the agency had sufficient reason to believe a crime had been committed and evidence of that crime was at the location it planned to search. "What is significant about this is that the probable cause showing can't be historical," said Brian Jacobs, a former federal prosecutor in the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. And so, in the case of the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago this week, Mr Trump may attempt to argue that he declassified them on the way out of the White House. On the national stage, he was recently skewered in a series of prime-time hearings by the January 6 committee, which has spent more than a year gathering evidence of the former president's key role in the riot at the US Capitol in 2021. Such a conviction would also disqualify them from "holding any office under the United States", according to the law — a prospect likely to play on the mind of anyone invested in Mr Trump's political fortunes, for better or worse. It is not clear if the search was still ongoing at the time of the announcement, as Mr Trump was at another of his famous properties, Trump Tower in New York. But the announcement his Florida home was "under siege" by the FBI represented a stunning development in his dealings with the Department of Justice (DOJ), signature hyperbole aside.

Washington, D. C., AP. Former US president Donald Trump says the FBI has conducted a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate. The circumstances were not immediately ...

The circumstances were not immediately clear. That matter was referred to the Justice Department by the National Archives and Records Administration, which said it had found classified material in 15 boxes at the residence. The Justice Department has been investigating the discovery of boxes of records containing classified information that were taken to Mar-a-Lago after Trump’s presidency had concluded.

Donald Trump's presidency at times threatened to tear America apart, and the country's democracy, institutions and equilibrium staggered away from his ...

And the vitriol was pouring out on social media, recalling the violent speech that led up to the Capitol attack. And it demonstrated how many Republicans with aspirations of winning elections know they must show total loyalty to the former President, whatever his alleged transgressions. This new national nightmare is sure to color yet another election since Trump is already a front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination and millions of supporters will buy into his storylines. The unhinged rhetoric was, if anything, more extreme on conservative media outlets that supported and enabled Trump while he was president. The former President met 12 of his closest House allies at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club on Tuesday and got nothing but support for a bid to get his old job back. Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, who raised a fist in encouragement to Trump's mob before it stormed the Capitol on January 6 said that, at a minimum, Garland should be impeached or resign. The FBI search on Monday represented a remarkable development in just one of the legal fronts bearing down on Trump. It recently emerged that his lawyers are in discussions with Justice Department prosecutors conducting a probe into the circumstances surrounding the January 6, 2021, insurrection. And because government prosecutors don't typically talk about ongoing investigations unless they reach a decision to charge someone -- to ensure the integrity of the probe and the privacy of those under investigation -- it is unlikely there will be clarity on the situation anytime soon. And he is set to be deposed on Wednesday While the furious reaction from Trump world builds, his defenders are ignoring one key fact: The FBI didn't just turn up at his Palm Beach residence on a whim. That includes FBI Director Christopher Wray (a Trump appointee), Attorney General Merrick Garland and the former President himself, who has not said what was written in the search warrant. Such procedures are how it's supposed to work in the justice system, which rests on the principle that no one -- not even former presidents -- are above the law.