The FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida was an outrageously excessive use of government power. Trump and his legal team continue to insist that he was complying with the FBI and that the raid was political theater.
Even more alarming is that Fox News’ Sean Hannity has uncovered that there are tapes of the raid, and he’s pressing Trump to hand them over. During an interview aired Monday, Trump said that he had the tapes, but that the FBI was scared to have them released.
The former President said, “I have tapes of the raid and the raid is terrible and the way they treated people, was terrible and the way they treat people now is unbelievable. Ask innocent people.”
It’s clear that the raid was a politically motivated attempt to target Trump and his supporters. The raid was conducted without a search warrant, and included over a dozen FBI agents. It is also apparent that the FBI was looking for something specific, but there has been no explanation as to what that was.
This kind of behavior is unacceptable, and it speaks to the corruption within the FBI and the Democratic party. It seems that they are willing to use any means necessary to target their political opponents, even if it means violating their civil liberties.
It’s time for the truth to come out. It’s time for justice to be served. It’s time for the tapes of the Mar-a-Lago raid to be released, so that the public can see for themselves the lengths that the FBI will go to in order to target their political opponents.
The former President himself said it best when he told Hannity, “Everybody would take that tape.”
The American people deserve to know what happened, and it’s time for the FBI to be held accountable for their actions.