FBI raids Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home
Laura Coates Live
CNN
3.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Sarah Sidener and this is CNN Tonight on a very big news night. |
| 0:07.1 | Former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida has been searched by the FBI. |
| 0:12.9 | Trump confirmed it himself tonight. |
| 0:15.1 | Three sources tell our Sarah Murray and Kristen Holmes it was related to the handling of |
| 0:18.9 | presidential documents, including classified documents. |
| 0:22.7 | Those documents may have been brought to Mar-a-Lago when Donald Trump left the White House. |
| 0:27.6 | In order to get a search warrant like this, prosecutors have to establish probable cause |
| 0:33.1 | that a crime was committed. |
| 0:35.2 | So this is a very big deal. |
| 0:38.8 | Make no mistake about it. |
| 0:40.3 | Former President Trump has already blasted the move, claiming as he often does political |
| 0:45.5 | persecution and a witch hunt. |
| 0:47.9 | In a statement released tonight, he says, quote, these are dark times for our nation as |
| 0:52.2 | my beautiful home Mar-a-Lago and Palm Beach, Florida is currently under siege, rated |
| 0:56.5 | and occupied by a large group of FBI agents. |
| 1:00.3 | Nothing like this has ever happened to a president of the United States before. |
| 1:04.0 | After working and cooperating with the relevant government agencies, this unannounced raid on |
| 1:08.7 | my home was not necessary or appropriate, such an assault. |
| 1:12.7 | Could only take place in broken third world countries. |
| 1:16.0 | They even broke into my safe. |
| 1:18.8 | CNN has learned that Donald Trump was not in Florida when the FBI closed in on his home. |
| 1:23.9 | He was at Trump Tower here in New York City. |
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