Former US President Donald Trump said that his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida was raided by FBI agents on Monday. However, there is no official confirmation about the reason for the raid from the federal government, but there are reports that the search was conducted in relation to the potential mishandling of classified documents that had been sent to Mar-a-Lago.

The FBI declined to comment on the reason for the raid, but US media reports state that the probe is related to documents that the former President may have taken to Mar-a-Lago on leaving the White House.

Trump has called the unprecedented search an act of prosecutorial misconduct. This comes as he prepares for a possible third presidential run in 2024.

The ex-president posted a statement on his Truth Social platform, where he said that his beautiful home, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents. He further said that it (raid) is prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the justice system, and an attack by radical left Democrats who desperately don’t want him to run for President in 2024.

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Trump said such an assault could only take place in broken, third-world countries. Sadly, America has now become one of those countries, he said, adding, they even broke into my safe!

The US media news channel reported that the former President was in Trump Tower in New York City at the time of the raid.

Eric Trump, the ex-president’s second-oldest son said that the FBI’s execution of search on Trump’s Florida residence was related to an investigation into the handling of National Archives records.

Earlier in February, the National Archives, the US government agency retrieved 15 boxes from Mar-a-Lago, some of which contained classified records. By law, US presidents must submit all of their letters, official papers, and emails to the National Archives.

However, according to officials, the former president ripped up various documents without consent. The Archives said some of them had to be taped back together. When the allegations of inappropriately handling government papers first surfaced, Trump dismissed them as fake news.

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Veteran actor Roger E. Mosley died in a car accident on Sunday morning. He was best known for his role as the helicopter pilot, Theodore T.C. Calvin, in the CBS television series Magnum P.I. He was 83.

Mosley succumbed to injuries from a car collision that left him paralyzed from the shoulders down. According to the reports, he died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California after the car collision on Thursday, August 4.

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After the controversial visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 21 Chinese military fighter jets entered Taiwan’s air defence identification zone (ADIZ) on Tuesday.

Taiwan’s defence ministry said in a statement that 21 People’s Liberation Army (PLA) aircraft entered into Taiwan’s southwest ADIZ on August 02, 2022. However, It overlaps with China’s air defence identification zone.

Defying China’s warning, Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan on Tuesday evening. She said that her delegation’s visit to Taiwan honours America’s unwavering commitment to supporting Taiwan’s vibrant democracy.

Pelosi said that her discussions with Taiwan leadership reaffirm US support for its partner and promote their shared interests, including advancing a free & open Indo-Pacific region.

Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu welcomed Pelosi and thanked her and the congressional delegations for travelling all the way to show their support.

China condemned the visit and said it was a major political provocation and it would launch targeted military operations as a countermeasure.

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that the US reneged on its commitment to the Taiwan question. This is contemptible and will only further bankrupt the US’s credibility as a country. He further said that certain US politicians care about nothing but selfish gains and openly play with fire on the Taiwan question.

“History is always similar,” Sharing a photo which mentions Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Libya and Syria, Chinese spokesperson Lijian Zhao tweeted.

China is on high alert and the PLA Eastern command announced that it would hold joint sea and air exercises in the sea and airspace of northern, south-western, and south-eastern Taiwan.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China has warned that if the US insists on following the wrong course of action, then it should be responsible for any serious consequence arising thereof.  

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