The head Republican on the House Intelligence Committee has asked Christopher Wary, director of the FBI, for a “urgent briefing” on Monday’s Mar-a-Lago raid.
Rep. Michael Turner requested the explanation for the search of Donald Trump’s Florida resort in a letter to the FBI, a copy of which was acquired by DailyMail.com.
Turner said that none of the papers in Trump’s possession represent a “actual or suspected national security concern.”
The Ohio Republican stated, “This move is unparalleled in the history of our nation.”
He said, “Congress expects timely answers from you on the activities you directed.” I thus request that you provide Members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence with an expedited briefing on any dangers to national security that you cited as the basis for your choice.
Only the Democrats have the power to force Wray to appear for hearing since Republicans are in the minority.
Republican leader Kevin McCarthy pledged retaliation against the DOJ after many other GOP leaders criticised the agency over the raid.
On Twitter, McCarthy chastised US Attorney General Merrick Garland and advised him to “preserve your records and clear your schedule.”
I’ve had enough of this, he wrote.
“The politicisation of the Department of Justice has reached an untenable level.”
Republicans will immediately oversee this agency, follow the facts, and exhaust all options once we regain control of the House. Attorney General Garland, keep your files safe and free up your schedule.
The Monday night raid comes as Trump is pondering making another run for the president and as senators on Capitol Hill are looking into his post-2020 activities, in which he attempted to overturn Joe Biden’s triumph.
Later that evening on Hannity, Trump’s son Eric said that he had informed his father about the raid. He also claimed that while his father’s office had been searched, there was “nothing in the safe.”
He said to Fox News anchor Sean Hannity, “I was the man who received the call this morning and I contacted my father and let him know it occurred and I was involved all day.”
Welcome to political life in the year 2020.
“To have 30 FBI agents—actually more than that—descend on Mar-a-Lago, go through the gates with absolutely no warning, and begin searching an office and a closet—they broke into a safe, you know. In fact, he had nothing in the safe. Give me a break, I mean.
He said that the White House of Vice President Joe Biden was responsible for the raid.
This wasn’t from the Palm Beach, Florida, area FBI field office. You are aware of the source?
This originated from the White House in Washington, D.C., a single location and a single structure.
They want to target the person they see as Biden’s biggest danger, according to Eric Trump.
The Biden White House was unaware of the situation. According to the New York Times, senior White House staff members learned about it through Twitter.
Donald Trump Jr., the other son of the president, criticised the DOJ and the Biden administration for dividing the nation.
Biden has lost control The way the DOJ brazenly targets its political rivals is tearing our nation apart. This is what occurs in third-world “banana republics”!
Republican Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis mirrored the view, comparing America to a Banana Republic and Vice President Joe Biden’s government to a tyranny.
DeSantis claimed: “People like Hunter Biden are handled with child gloves as the weaponization of government agencies against the Regime’s political opponents continues with the raid of MAL.”
“Now that the Regime has extra 87k IRS agents at its disposal to use against its enemies?” The Banana Republic.
The raid, according to Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, was “rogue conduct of communist nations, NOT the United States of America!”
The FBI is conducting a raid at President Trump’s Maralago residence, she tweeted.
NOT the United States of America, but rather communist nations are engaging in this rogue activity!
These are the kinds of events that take place in nations that are through civil war. Political persecutors NEED TO STOP NOW!
Trump complained about the FBI agents breaking into his safe but didn’t specify what the federal authorities were searching for.
The former president said, “They even broke into my safe!”
According to the New York Times, the probe is focused on documents that Trump carried to Mar-a-Lago after leaving the White House.
According to reports, the 15 cartons of papers included classified information, which would be against the law in the United States.
It started on Monday and took many hours. At 6:36 p.m., a Florida reporter tweeted that the agents had “just gone.” At 6:52 p.m., Trump issued a statement announcing the raid.
These are grave times for our country as a significant number of FBI agents are presently occupying Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, and have set up camp there. In an astonishing comment made on Monday night, Trump said that a president of the United States had never experienced something like this.
“This surprise raid on my residence was neither necessary or acceptable,” I told the relevant government authorities after working with them.
On Twitter, a lot of GOP officials were furious over the raid.
What do you suppose the left expects to utilise those 87,000 extra IRS officers for after today’s raid on Mar-a-Lago, said Marco Rubio?
The Department of Justice “must be held responsible,” tweeted Lauren Boebert.
‘On top of all the other false investigations of President Trump, Biden’s FBI recently invaded the home of the guy most likely to be the Republican candidate in 2024. Stop using government organisations as weapons to further your own failing goal!
The GOP has to form a Select Committee to look into the politically motivated FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago as well as ALL of the false accusations of persecution against President Trump levelled by our government. It cannot be delayed. At an unprecedented rate, we are becoming a banana republic, she said.
Trump-supported author Nick Smith described the raid as an attack on the US Constitution.
“Congress must examine the sustainability of our federal law enforcement organisations that misuse their authority for political ends,” stated Rep. Andy Biggs. It is necessary to hold lawbreakers inside the FBI and DOJ more responsible since they are breaking their oath of office by failing to enforce the law.
‘The FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago is a continuation of the left’s continuous & unconstitutional persecution of President Trump,’ tweeted Kimberly Guilfoyle.
The failing Biden regime will use all means at its disposal to divert attention away from the reality that its policies are utterly destroying our country.
In a lengthy statement condemning the raid, Trump referred to it as “prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for President in 2024, especially given recent polls, and who will similarly do anything to stop Republicans and Conservatives in the upcoming Midterm Elections.”
Although the Justice Department refused to confirm that Attorney General Merrick Garland had personally approved the search, it is exceedingly implausible that a raid on a former president would occur without the AG’s seal of approval.
According to NBC News, the raid was reportedly approved by a judge, and US Secret Service officials at Mar-a-Lago participated by giving the FBI early warning and allowing them access to the property.
The Secret Service operatives observed the inquiry and search but did not participate.
As a result, there was no need for the FBI to storm into the building or break any doors down.
The DoJ inquiry into the boxes of data containing sensitive material that were brought to Mar-a-Lago was thought to be connected to the raid.
The Department of Justice was requested by the National Archives and Records Administration to investigate whether the former president broke any laws in February.
There are several laws that regulate classified material, including one that makes it illegal to remove such data and keep them at an unapproved place and is punished by up to five years in jail.
In the middle of January, staff members from the National Archives found 15 boxes of White House documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.
The communication between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, which Trump has called “beautiful letters,” and a handwritten note that former President Barack Obama left in the Oval Office for his successor were among the things Trump was required to return.
The Justice Department’s investigation into attempts to rig the 2020 presidential election and the January 6th uprising are two further legal cases in which Trump is engaged.