{"id":665,"date":"2025-03-01T00:32:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T01:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenewamore.com\/?p=665"},"modified":"2025-03-06T13:07:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T13:07:04","slug":"fbi-returns-property-seized-during-mar-a-lago-raid-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thenewamore.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/01\/fbi-returns-property-seized-during-mar-a-lago-raid-to-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI returns property seized during Mar-a-Lago raid to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

The FBI is returning the property seized during the 2022 raid of Mar-a-Lago<\/a> to President Trump, according to the White House.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe FBI is giving the President his property back that was taken during the unlawful and illegal raids. We are taking possession of the boxes today and loading them onto Air Force One,\u201d White House communications director Steven Cheung said in a statement on Friday. <\/p>\n

Cheung added that some of the boxes were loaded onto the plane before Trump\u2019s Friday flight back to Florida. <\/p>\n

Alina Habba, the president\u2019s counselor, said Friday that she loaded some of the \u201cinfamous\u201d boxes herself onto Air Force 1. <\/p>\n

\u201cJustice has been and will continue to be restored in this country under President Trump.\u00a0TRUTH AND JUSTICE ALWAYS WIN IN THE END. God Bless America,\u201d she said<\/a> in a Friday post on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The FBI took 33 boxes during the August 2022 court-authorized search of Mar-a-Lago as part of a probe into Trump\u2019s alleged mishandling of classified documents and alleged obstruction of officials\u2019 efforts to get them back.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The raid prompted heavy criticism of the FBI by Trump and his allies. The president characterized it as unnecessary. He was<\/a> contacted prior to the raid by the Justice Department (DOJ) and the National Archives to return the records.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then-Attorney General Merrick Garland tapped Special Counsel Jack Smith to investigate whether Trump mishandled classified records. The case ended up being dismissed by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in mid-July last year, saying in the ruling that Smith\u2019s appointment was unconstitutional.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Special Counsel\u2019s position effectively usurps that important legislative authority, transferring it to a Head of Department, and in the process threatening the structural liberty inherent in the separation of powers,\u201d Cannon wrote in the 93-page ruling. <\/p>\n

Trump said some of the boxes the DOJ gave back will be in his future presidential library.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey [boxes] are being brought down to Florida and will someday be part of the Trump Presidential Library. Justice finally won out. I did absolutely nothing wrong. This was merely an attack on a political opponent that, obviously, did not work well,\u201d he said Friday on Truth Social. \u201cJustice in our Country will now be restored.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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