As the son of former President Donald Trump, Eric Trump made the claim this past Tuesday that a fairly sizable group of FBI agents who carried out the raid against the Florida mansion owned by his father would not hand over a copy of their search warrant to the Trump legal team, and instead allegedly forced the legal team to view the warrant from over 10 feet away and without detail.
A Trump-owned Florida manor out in Mar-a-Lago was stormed by federal agents this past Monday early in the morning, though the news about the incident did not officially break until late in the evening. Reportedly, the agents went through a large number of officers, opened safes, and confiscated multiple boxes worth of various documents.
“There’s 30 agents there,” expressed Eric to the Daily Mail. “They told our lawyer (Christina Bobb) … you have to leave the property right now. Turn off all security cameras.”
“They would not give her the search warrant,” alleged the former President’s son. “So they showed it to her from about 10 feet away. They would not give her a copy of the search warrant.”
Eric seemed to harbor doubts and expressed them to the Daily Mail about if the feds actually had a real and valid search warrant for what they were doing.
Bobb has also stepped up to speak out about the worrying raid, explaining to Real America News this past Tuesday that she did not get a physical copy of the warrant at first and was not able to discover what exactly their probable cause was that would make a judge sign off on a warrant against a former President.
“When I arrived and kind of announced myself as the legal representation for President Trump, I asked to see a copy of the warrant,” she remembered.
“Initially they refused and said, ‘You know, we don’t have to show it to you,’” stated Bobb. “And there was a little bit of an exchange about whether it was appropriate to withhold the warrant when you’re searching the residence of the former president, who’s likely to be the Republican nominee in the next election, though they conceded and let me see it.”
The federal agents “did not give me a copy of it right away, but they did let me see it,” she explained.
It is still unclear if Bobb has received a complete copy of the warrant as of yet.
“It was very, I would say, thin,” she stated. “And as you can tell from public records, the affidavit, the supporting documentation of what the probable cause was to obtain the warrant has been sealed.”
Later on, in the same interview, Bobb labeled this odd federal raid “a weird flex.”
“This was a completely unnecessary power flex,” she explained. “It was a weird flex. It’s quite honestly sad to see what they have done to our country.”