August 9, 2022 7:33pm EDT
FBI would not let Trump attorneys in rooms as agents raided Mar-a-Lago, warrant focused on NARA: source
'There is no need for any of this,' a source told Fox News
By Brooke Singman | Fox News
FBI agents would not allow Trump lawyers watch as they raided former President Trump’s private home at Mar-a-Lago early Monday morning, a source told Fox News.
Trump was in New York City while his home in Palm Beach, Florida, was raided.
A source familiar with the raid told Fox News the warrant for the raid was related to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) effort to collect records and materials the former president took with him from Washington, D.C., to Mar-a-Lago.
"This was a NARA issue," the source close to the former president told Fox News, adding Trump has been "cooperating."
"There is no need for any of this," the source said, adding the FBI "wouldn’t let the attorneys come in to watch the raid. They told them to leave."
The source told Fox News that when NARA visited Mar-a-Lago in February, Trump and his team "gave them what they wanted."
"It was all provided to them," the source said. "This is absurd."
Another source told Fox News negotiations and communications "never broke down."
Earlier this year, NARA said Trump took 15 boxes of presidential records to his personal residence in Florida. Those boxes allegedly contained "classified national security information" and official correspondence between Trump and foreign heads of state.
NARA notified Congress in February that the agency recovered the 15 boxes from Mar-a-Lago and "identified items marked as classified national security information within the boxes."
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