In a shocking new update to the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago raid, sources told Fox News that FBI agents would not allow Trump lawyers to watch as they raided former President Trump’s private home.
Trump was also not present as he 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.”
The White House maintained it was given no advance notice of the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago and said President Biden learned of it through public press reports “just like the American people.”
