At a Sunday rally in Arizona, Donald Trump made a number of misleading claims about the FBI's raid on his Mar-a-Lago resort.
Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush did not face legal consequences for their actions.
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There were a few boxes in the storage room. No crime has taken place. Trump said they should give him back everything they took from him.
He accused the FBI of planting evidence and of seizing documents with nuclear secrets in the raid.
They plant papers. "Let's see, is there a book on nuclear destruction or building of a nuclear weapon, let's put that book in with Trump," the former president told supporters, seeming to quote those who plotted against him.
After he left office, Trump was accused of wrongly taking government records, including highly classified information, and storing them at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
While his lawyers have not made court appearances related to the case, Trump was repeating his arguments at the rally.
Analysts say that some of Trump's claims are intended to rile up his core supporters ahead of a widely anticipated announcement.
In the Mar-a-Lago raid, scores of government records were recovered, and Trump gave no reason why they should be returned.
Some of the documents are private and should be returned under privilege, but only a small number of them were found to be.
There was no evidence to support Trump's claim that evidence was planted.
Fact checkers said that Trump's claims were not true.
The usual process for obtaining government records after leaving office is to apply for permission from the National Archives to borrow them from the government.
Trump was campaigning for the two Republican candidates he endorsed in the Arizona senate and governor races.
If they win, they will have key election-administration roles and embrace his baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
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