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Eric Trump, the son of President Donald Trump, revealed that FBI agents found nothing when they broke open a safe during their raid at Mar-a-Lago.
Eric Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that no family in American history “has taken more arrows in the back than the Trump family.”
“And Sean, that’s what this is about today, to have 30 FBI agents, actually more than that, descend on Mar-a-Lago, give absolutely no notice, go through the gates, start ransacking an office, ransacking a closet,” he said. “They broke into a safe. He didn’t even have anything in the safe.”
The FBI has been criticized by President Donald Trump regarding the raid of Mar-a-Lago raid.
“These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents,” the statement read.
“Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before. After working and cooperating with the relevant government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate,” Trump added.
“It is 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,” Trump continued.”
“Especially based on recent polls and who will likewise do anything to stop Republicans and Conservatives in the upcoming midterm elections,” Trump concluded.
More on this story via: Newsweek
Trump has yet to officially announce whether he will run again in 2024, but he has teased his potential candidacy. A recent Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll found that 69 percent of the event’s attendees chose Trump when asked who they preferred as the Republican presidential candidate for 2024.
The former president also mentioned in the statement that the FBI “broke into my safe,” though he did not provide further details on what it did or did not contain.
The FBI declined to comment on Trump’s safe to Newsweek.
In an Intelligencer story on Tuesday, Michael Cohen, a former attorney for Donald Trump, was quoted describing a safe at Trump Tower in New York City, though he said he could not speak for Florida.
He said that the only person at Trump Tower who had access to the safe—though he added “you can call it a safe, you can call it locked file cabinets”—was Trump’s former head of security, Matthew Calamari.
