FBI raid on Trump's home sparks political firestorm
The dramatic FBI raid on Donald Trump's palatial Florida residence has supercharged the polarising political debate around the slew of judicial investigations facing the former president as he considers another White House run. The shock action marked a stunning escalation of legal probes into the 45th US president, drawing cheers from his political foes and condemnation from his allies. "Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before," the 76-year-old Trump said of the day-long FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago resort. He denounced the FBI raid as "weaponisation of the Justice System" by "Radical Left Democrats who desperately don't want me to run for President in 2024." The FBI declined to provide a reason for the unprecedented move against a former chief executive. But multiple US media outlets said agents were conducting a court-authorised search related to the potential mishandling of classified documents that had been sent to Mar-a-Lago after Trump left the White House in January 2021. Trump has also been facing intense legal scrutiny for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and the January 6 attack on the US Capitol by his...