Trump and his family watched FBI raid on security footage, lawyer claims
Despite former President Donald Trump suggesting federal agents may have planted evidence during their raid of his Mar-a-Lago resort this week, he and his family were able to see “the whole” operation on security camera footage, one of his lawyers revealed Thursday.
“It’s kind of funny. I think the folks in New York, President Trump and his family, probably had a better view than I did because they had the CCTV, they were able to watch,” Christina Bobb told Real America’s Voice.
“I was, you know, I was stuck in the parking lot there to you know, collect paper and answer questions,” she added. “But they were actually able to see the whole thing. So they they actually have a better idea of what took place inside.”
According to Bobb, the FBI initially instructed Mar-a-Lago staff to turn off all the surveillance cameras in Trump’s residence. However, the 45th president’s legal team ensured that they would remain operational.
“The cameras were only off for a very short period of time,” Bobb said.
Since Monday’s raid, Trump has repeatedly suggested that agents could have placed incriminating information or evidence in his home, with his attorneys unable to observe the search.
“The FBI and others from the Federal Government would not let anyone, including my lawyers, be anywhere near the areas that were rummaged and otherwise looked at during the raid on Mar-a-Lago,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Wednesday.
“Everyone was asked to leave the premises, they wanted to be left alone, without any witnesses to see what they were doing, taking or, hopefully not, ‘planting.’ Why did they STRONGLY insist on having nobody watching them, everybody out? Obama and Clinton were never ‘raided,’ despite big disputes!”
Neither the former president nor members of his family have publicly said that they were able to observe the raid. Trump was in New York when the raid took place.
A representative for the 45th president did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for confirmation.
Bobb’s revelation came hours after Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Department of Justice wants to unseal the search warrant and the property receipt listing the items seized from Mar-a-Lago – barring any objection from Trump or his legal team.
The former president enthusiastically encouraged the unsealing of the documents late Thursday. However, his lawyers will still have to formally inform US Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart by 3 p.m. Friday that they have no objection to the release.
The Washington Post reported Thursday that the FBI had been looking for “classified documents relating to nuclear weapons” as part of its search. The report did not provide further details — including whether any such documents were uncovered or whether they pertained to US weapons or those of another country.
Friday morning, NewsNation reported that the agency found “dozens” of classified documents that were being kept in two areas of the estate — Trump’s personal office and a separate storage room.
Trump also blasted the claim about nuclear weapons documents as a “Hoax” Friday morning.
