Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan.
The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television show, from 2003 to 2015. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $3.1 billion.
Donald Trump Says Mar-a-Lago Was Raided by ‘A Large Group of FBI Agents’
thewrap.comAssociated Press later confirmed that a raid had taken place, citing a person familiar with the matter. The person said the raid was related to whether Trump had taken any classified information from the White House, part of an investigation that’s been ongoing since National Archives workers discovered classified documents in boxes at Trump’s resort home in Florida.New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman tweeted a screenshot of Trump’s full statement:Trump says MAL has been searched by feds pic.twitter.com/UEC5KE5pJmThe FBI did not immediately return messages seeking confirmation from TheWrap.
Neither the FBI nor the larger Department of Justice immediately put out any kind of statement regarding a raid at Mar-a-Lago.
Late last month, the DOJ said it had opened a criminal investigation into Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, but no connection between that investigation and the raid had been established.Instead, according to the AP, the DOJ has been investigating classified records found at Mar-a-Lago by the National Archives and Records Administration, which referred the matter to the Justice Department upon the discovery.
Removing classified documents is a felony – though Trump could argue that he had the authority to declassify the documents as president.That the raid was tied to a smaller matter could explain why Trump chose to put it on blast, using the action as a political cudgel.“It is prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the Justice System, an attack by Radical Left Democrats who don’t want me to run for President in 2024, especially based on recent polls,” Trump said.
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