News reports that the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago looking for nuclear documents were a hoax, as intrigue swirls over what documents were being kept there and for what purpose, and as the public waits to see whether the search took place, were false.
There is an aerial view of Mar-a-Lago.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote "Nuclear weapons is a hoax," in reference to a Washington Post report that said federal investigators were looking at classified documents related to nuclear weapons.
The Special Counsel Robert Meuller investigation into whether Trump's campaign coordinated with Russia to influence the presidential election and the former president's two impeachments were hoaxes according to Trump.
The New York Times reported the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago looking for documents related to a "special access program," which the paper described as being related to "extremely sensitive operations carried out by the United States abroad."
Trump accused federal agents without evidence oflanting information during the raid as they made his lawyers wait outside in the heat and wouldn't let them get close to the search.
The Attorney General filed a motion in federal court to unseal the search warrant for Monday's FBI raid, which Trump said shortly after he would not oppose and called for the "immediate release" of documents tied to the investigation. There is a list of items seized from his property. The deadline was set by the justice department. The lawyers for Trump will make a decision on Friday.
Federal investigators searched Trump's home on Monday for hours and reportedly recovered 12 boxes of documents in a probe related to the former president's alleged violation of federal laws on handling classified documents The National Archives gave 15 boxes of Trump administration documents to Mar-a-Lago, but the Justice Department is looking into why they were taken there. The National Archives must receive White House documents when a president leaves office. In the spring, federal agents issued a grand jury subpoena and took documents from Trump's property. Trump's allies rallied around him in the wake of the search and continued his claims that the investigation is a witch hunt.
The Mar-A-Lago search warrant needs to be made public.
There are documents linked to the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago.
Sources tell the Washington Post that the FBI searched Trump's home.
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