The raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home was reportedly set off by an informant who provided authorities a detailed description of classified documents the former president kept in his basement.
While the FBI and Department of Justice have not shared details behind the raid, reports indicate it occurred to recover classified documents, even after the National Archives retrieved 15 boxes of records from Mar-a-Lago earlier this year.
Officials had hoped to keep the raid more low-profile, prompting it to take place while Trump was away in order to keep it more discreet, a Justice official told Newsweek. In June, a Justice official and three FBI agents visited Trump’s Florida home to discuss boxes of government records being held in the basement, which were reportedly the same items of interest during Monday’s raid, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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