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DID HE STEAL SECRET DOCUMENTS?

FBI officials searched former US President Donald Trump's (76) Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach (Florida) on Monday around 6 p.m. (local time). "My beautiful home, Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, search, and occupation by a large group of FBI agents," Trump wrote on Truth Social, a network he co-founded.

Trump continued: "This unannounced search of my home was neither necessary nor appropriate." "Even" his safe was opened. Trump called the process "political persecution" and an attack by "radical left Democrats." He compared the search to the Watergate scandal that forced US President Richard Nixon to resign in 1974.

Trump was not at his home during the FBI operation. According to media reports, the process is related to Trump's handling of files and documents from his time in the White House.

So there is the suspicion that the politician could have illegally taken secret documents from the White House to Mar-a-Lago, reports the US news site "The Guardian."

Searching for the property of a former president is highly unusual.

Letters from North Korean dictator Kim?

After his tenure, Trump took several boxes of files home with him. In addition to secret communication papers, these documents are said to have included a letter from Trump's predecessor Barack Obama (61), and several letters from North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un (38).

In April, the US Department of Justice launched an investigation into Trump's outsourcing of official documents. The investigation began after the National Archives notified Congress in February that it had seized about 15 boxes of White House documents at Trump's private residence.

Will Trump soon announce his candidacy?

The ex-president was recently heavily incriminated by witnesses at the public hearings of the investigative committee on the Capitol attack. Accordingly, Trump knew that the demonstrators were armed on January 6, 2021, and deliberately sent them to the Capitol. The question is whether Attorney General Merrick Garland could take criminal action against Trump. 

Trump had recently flirted with running again in the 2024 presidential election. However, he has not yet announced his candidacy.

Observers had speculated that Trump could soon announce a candidacy because of the pressure from the Capitol Committee investigations. The candidacy would be a way to dismiss investigations against him as politically motivated.

In his statement, he complained that the Democrats wanted to prevent him from running again in 2024.