The FBI has finally returned President Donald Trump’s property after it was seized during the August 2022 raid on his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida.
In a statement, White House communications director Steven Cheung said:
“The FBI is giving the President his property back that was taken during the unlawful and illegal raids.
“We are taking possession of the boxes today and loading them onto Air Force One.”
Cheung added that some of the boxes were loaded onto the plane before Trump’s Friday flight back to Florida.
Trump’s White House counsel, Alina Habba, said she loaded some of the “infamous” boxes onto Air Force 1 herself.
In a Friday post on X, Habba said:
“Justice has been and will continue to be restored in this country under President Trump.
“TRUTH AND JUSTICE ALWAYS WIN IN THE END.
“God Bless America.”
The FBI took 33 boxes during the August 2022 court-authorized search of Mar-a-Lago as part of a probe into Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents.
Investigators accused Trump of obstructing officials’ efforts to get them back.
The raid was ordered by former President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) as Trump was preparing to announce his run for re-election.
However, the raid prompted heavy criticism of the FBI by Trump and his allies.
The president characterized it as unnecessary and politically motivated.
Trump had been in communication with the National Archives regarding the return of the records.
Then-Attorney General Merrick Garland tapped Special Counsel Jack Smith to investigate whether Trump mishandled classified records.
The case ended up being dismissed by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in mid-July last year.
Cannon said in the ruling that Smith’s appointment was unconstitutional.
“The Special Counsel’s position effectively usurps that important legislative authority, transferring it to a Head of Department, and in the process threatening the structural liberty inherent in the separation of powers,” Cannon wrote in the 93-page ruling.
Trump said some of the boxes the DOJ gave back will be in his future presidential library.
In a Friday post on Truth Social, Trump said:
“They [boxes] are being brought down to Florida and will someday be part of the Trump Presidential Library.
“Justice finally won out. I did absolutely nothing wrong.
“This was merely an attack on a political opponent that, obviously, did not work well.
“Justice in our Country will now be restored.”
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