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Today in Focus

The FBI raid of Donald Trump’s home

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Congressional reporter Hugo Lowell explains why the FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort on Monday morning, and how it may even benefit the former president in the long run. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:07.8

Today, why Donald Trump's house was raided?

0:11.9

And why his supporters are celebrating?

0:24.2

So developing tonight for President Donald Trump says the FBI has searched his

0:27.8

moral logo home.

0:29.0

It would mark a dramatic escalation by law enforcement into the former president.

0:33.1

Amy Hocker was...

0:33.9

His presidency was unprecedented.

0:36.4

And now his post-presidency is proving to be the same.

0:40.5

The Secret Service, there to provide protection, confirmed it had facilitated the execution

0:46.7

of a search warrant.

0:48.4

The White House said it had no advanced notice of the operation.

0:52.5

Donald Trump has been accused of fermenting a riot at the Capitol building, trying to steal

0:58.2

an election, and colluding with the Russian government.

1:02.4

But sources tell the Associated Press tonight that the search is related to whether the

1:06.9

former president took classified records from the White House to his Florida home.

1:11.8

But the thing that finally triggered an FBI raid was how he capes his files.

1:18.0

Well, obviously we want to look for what was the justification.

1:21.1

If this turns out to be merely a clerical issue that the president, you know, in effect,

1:25.7

checked out books too long from the archivists, then this clearly is a political attack on

1:30.4

the president of the United States.

1:31.6

I'm concerned that they may have planted something.

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