Democrat Nancy Pelosi comments on the FBI raid of Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach as do several Republican allies of the former president, including U.S. Rep Jim Jordan of Ohio....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders

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Former United States president Donald Trump and current Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi
 

By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com


PALM BEACH, Florida- The FBI raided former president Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort residence in Palm Beach, Florida on Monday seeking classified documents and evidence of wrongdoing during his presidency, the raid the result of the execution of a search warrant that has the former president's Republican allies in an upheaval and media across the country in a frenzy. 

It is the first time in American history that a search warrant has been executed against a former president and it was issued on the anniversary date of Richard Nixon’s Aug 4, 1974 resignation, which followed the Watergate scandal. 

Democrats in Washington are elated as they renew the push for the Justice Department to bring criminal charges against the former president, a real estate mogul and former television personality who twice survived impeachment proceedings and was ousted in 2020 by now president Joe Biden, a  Democrat who was vice president under former president Barack Obama, a two-term president and the nation's first Black president. 

"To have a warrant, you need justification. And that says that no one is above the law, not even a president or a former president of the United States," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

Pelosi said that the government raid on Trump's home is a step in the right direction.

"We believe in the rule of law. That's what our country is about," Pelosi said in an interview with NBC's "Today" show.  

The now infamous FBI raid on Trump's elaborate Florida compound comes during speculation that he intends to announce shortly that he will run for president in 2024 It also comes hardly two weeks after the Jan. 6 committee that is investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol recessed until next month. 

Trump, however, was not at home at his resort in Florida and was at Trump Tower in New York City when the raid occurred. He said that it is nothing more than a witch hunt and released a statement saying that he too is shocked at the actions undertaken by the FBI and the Justice Department under U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland.. 

"My beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents," Trump said in a statement Monday evening.

The former president owns the 650,000 square feet resort and also has a mansion on the multi-million dollar property, a place he sometimes retreated to with his family when he was president and home to some 29 other billionaires.

Trump's lawyers had been in negotiations with government officials over the classified documents, or what the federal government says are classified documents. Those documents were the target of the raid, sources said, a raid that left Trump's home office and bedroom in disarray.

Valued By Forbes Magazine at $160 million in 2018, Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is, no doubt, beautiful, and it is the second largest mansion in the state of Florida.

Congressional and Senate Republicans lined up against the FBI raid and in support of the former president as the midterm elections near and the battle for control of the House of Representatives and U.S.Senate looms on.  

U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio (R-OH)

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., tweeted  that  "I've seen enough,"  and controversial U.S. Rep Marjorie Greene of Georgia, Sen Marco Rubio of Florida, and Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio were among Republicans who joined McCarthy in expressing dismay, Jordan saying in a statement that "this is what happens in third world countries."

Asenior member of the U.S. Senate, Sen Lindsey Graham called the raid on the former president problematic and said that "nobody is above the law." He said also that he believes it was unnecessary

This is a developing story.

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