President Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Friday, February 28, 2025. Trump is heading to his Mar-a-largo country club in Palm Beach, Fla., for the weekend.
THE HILL | Published March 1, 2025
The FBI is returning the property seized during the 2022 raid of Mar-a-Lago to President Trump, according to the White House.
“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,” White House communications director Steven Cheung said in a statement on Friday.
Cheung added that some of the boxes were loaded onto the plane before Trump’s Friday flight back to Florida.
Alina Habba, the president’s counselor, said Friday that she loaded some of the “infamous” boxes herself onto Air Force 1.
“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,” she said in a Friday post on X.
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 and alleged obstruction of officials’ efforts to get them back.
The raid prompted heavy criticism of the FBI by Trump and his allies. The president characterized it as unnecessary. He was contacted prior to the raid by the Justice Department (DOJ) and the National Archives to return 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, saying 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.
“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,” he said Friday on Truth Social. “Justice in our Country will now be restored.”
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This image, contained in the indictment against former President Donald Trump, shows boxes of records stored in a bathroom and shower in the Lake Room at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. (Justice Department via AP)
THE GATEWAY PUNDIT | Published March 1, 2025
President Trump announced Friday evening that boxes of material taken in the August 8, 2022, FBI raid on his Palm Beach, Florida, home Mar-a-Lago as part of the Jack Smith investigation were being returned to him and would end up in the Trump presidential library.
“The Department of Justice has just returned the boxes that Deranged Jack Smith made such a big deal about. They 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.”
Alina Habba, Counselor to the President, posted that she personally loaded the boxes onto Air Force One, “I just personally loaded the infamous “boxes” back onto Air Force 1 to head home where they belong. 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”
I just personally loaded the infamous “boxes” back onto Air Force 1 to head home where they belong. 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
— Alina Habba (@AlinaHabba) February 28, 2025
A Reuters photo posted by Breaking 911 shows the boxes being brought onto Air Force One:
TRUMP ADVISOR: “The FBl is giving the President his property back that was taken during the unlawful & illegal raids. We are taking possession of the boxes today & loading them onto Air Force One. Boxes were loaded onto the plane ahead of takeoff.” pic.twitter.com/qc5wh3jZNW
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) February 28, 2025
MSNBC’s Kyle Cheney reported about 15 boxes were put on the plane, “Trump White House staffers were seen loading around 15 boxes of documents onto the rear of Air Force One. Team Trump says the boxes contain the classified documents the FBI seized from Trump’s Florida home in 2022.”
Trump White House staffers were seen loading around 15 boxes of documents onto the rear of Air Force One.
Team Trump says the boxes contain the classified documents the FBI seized from Trump’s Florida home in 2022.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 1, 2025
Communications Director Steven Cheung said in a statement given to reporters and posted by New York Post reporter Diana Glebova, “”The FBl 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” — Steven Cheung, communications director”
News about Trump and FBI raid:
“The FBl 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” — Steven Cheung, communications director
— Diana Glebova (@DianaGlebova) February 28, 2025
Trump has not announced formal plans for his presidential library, however its initial funding is being done with tens of millions of dollars from media outlets settling with Trump’s lawsuits against them.
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