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President Donald Trump went off topic During his Friday night speech on the economy To condemn the 2022 FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago, which he said also included agents raiding First Lady Melania Trump’s “panty” drawer.
As part of a government investigation Trump’s Handling classified documents after leaving the White House in 2021 FBI raids Mar-a-Lago Looking for sensitive records in August 2022. Jack Smith, the former special prosecutor who led the Trump investigation, told lawmakers in a closed interview this week that his team had gathered “powerful evidence” that the president broke the law by withholding classified material.
Trump also returned to years-old raids on Friday after stopping in North Carolina for a rally-style speech apparently about the economy, en route to Mar-a-Lago for the two-week Christmas vacation. During his remarks, Trump described the raid as “illegal and despicable”, and alleged that agents searched his wife’s “panty” drawer.
“I was hunted … these animals were trying to attack me at Mar-a-Lago,” the president said Friday. “They went into my wife’s closet and I will say this, number one, it’s too bad, but it feels a little weird. They looked through her drawers.
He said the first lady is “a very meticulous person. Everything is perfect. Her undergarments… sometimes called panties, are folded up, perfect. They’re so perfect, I say: ‘It’s beautiful.'”
“I think she steams them,” he said, moving his hands as if he were steaming clothes, causing the audience to laugh.
“We came home. I was not there when the raid took place,” he said. “He opened the drawers and they weren’t the same. They were a mess.”
“It was everywhere. And she said, ‘Oh, what happened? This is terrible.’…They went into my young boy’s room. These thugs are disgusting, and we can’t let them get away with this stuff.”
“We have all the evidence, and we have to do something about it,” Trump concluded, raising his voice. In response, the crowd clapped and cheered.
The government under former President Joe Biden launched two federal investigations into Trump: his handling of classified documents and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Trump has demanded the Justice Department to pay him $230 million in compensation On federal investigation after he left office. He submitted a complaint for each investigation, one in 2023 and the other in 2024, through “an administrative claims process”. new York Times Reported in October.
After Trump wins the 2024 election, Smith dropped Cases against the incoming President. Smith told members of Congress this week that his investigative team had “developed evidence beyond a reasonable doubt” that Trump had organized a criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results and had collected “powerful evidence” that he violated laws related to the handling of classified documents.
Emails between FBI and DOJ officials in the months before the August 2022 raid were made public this week by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee chuck grassleySuggest that the bureau did not believe it had probable cause to execute a search warrant at Trump’s Palm Beach property, while the Justice Department insisted it did.
Trump also talked about his compensation claims during his Friday night economic speech and raised the amount from $230 million to $1 billion. He claimed that he now has to “deal with” the complaint himself because it is his Justice Department: “I brought a lawsuit and I’m winning the case. There’s only one problem: I have to deal with it.”
Then he suggested: “So, maybe I’ll give myself $1 billion and give it all to charity.”
A minute later, the President appeared to change his mind. He said, “Actually, maybe I shouldn’t donate it. Maybe I should keep the money.”