Melania Trump blasts FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid, says it serves as ‘warning to all Americans’

Former first lady Melania Trump shared a video on her X account Saturday morning blasting the FBI for the raid on her Mar-a-Lago home in 2022, and said it should be a “warning to all Americans.” “I never imagined my privacy would be invaded by the government here in America,” the former first lady recalled in the video. “This is not just my story, it serves as a warning to all Americans, a reminder that our freedom and rights must be respected,” Trump continued. Her husband, former President Trump, is set to sue the Justice Department for $100 million in damages over the government’s unprecedented 2022 raid on his Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida, with lawyers arguing it was done with “clear intent to engage in political persecution.” MELANIA RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT IN VIDEO PROMOTING HER NEW MEMOIR Trump and his legal team intend to sue the Justice Department for its conduct during the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8, 2022, amid the federal investigation into his alleged improper retention of classified records. “What President Trump is doing here is not just standing up for himself – he is standing up for all Americans who believe in the rule of law and believe that you should hold the government accountable when it wrongs you,” Trump attorney Daniel Epstein told FOX Business’ Lydia Hu. Epstein added that the decisions made by the DOJ and FBI regarding that raid were “inconsistent with protocols requiring the consent of an investigative target, disclosure to that individual’s attorneys, and the use of the local U.S. Attorney’s Office.” Trump’s attorney also argues the decisions made by Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray were not grounded in “social, economic, and political policy” but instead, in “clear dereliction of constitutional principles, inconsistent standards as applied to” Trump and a “clear intent to engage in political persecution – not to advance good law enforcement practices.” DON LEMON SLAMMED FOR MOCKING VIDEO OF MELANIA TRUMP QUESTIONING ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON HER HUSBAND: ‘SICK’ “The FBI’s demonstrated activity was inconsistent with protocols used in routine searches of an investigative target’s premises,” Epstein wrote, adding that Trump “had a clear expectation of privacy at Mar-a-Lago. Worse, the FBI’s conduct in the raid – where established protocol was violated – constitutes a severe and unacceptable intrusion that is highly offensive to a reasonable person.” “For these harms to President Trump, the respondents must pay punitive damages of $100 million,” Epstein wrote. This is the second recently released video the former first lady has posted as she is promoting her memoir, “Melania.” “The former First Lady invites readers into her world, offering an intimate portrait of a woman who has lived an extraordinary life,” the description reads. ‘DIVERGENT’ ACTRESS DEFENDS SHARING ‘BEAUTIFUL’ MELANIA LETTER ABOUT TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT POST-BACKLASH She posted her first video on Tuesday, raising questions about the July 13 assassination attempt on the former president. “The attempt to end my husband’s life was a horrible, distressing experience,” Trump said in a video statement on X. Following the assassination attempt in July, Mrs. Trump called for the country to “reunite,” calling for courage and common sense to “bring us back together as one.” TRUMP TO SUE DOJ FOR $100M OVER MAR-A-LAGO RAID, ALLEGING ‘POLITICAL PERSECUTION’ She said the gunman was “a monster who recognized my husband as an inhuman political machine” who attempted to “ring out Donald’s passion — his laughter, ingenuity, love of music, and inspiration.” “When I watched that violent bullet strike my husband, Donald, I realized my life, and Barron’s life, were on the brink of devastating change,” she wrote, adding that her husband is a generous and caring man. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “Writing my memoir has been an amazing journey filled with emotional highs and lows,” the former first lady previously told Fox News Digital. – This Summarize was created by Neural News AI (V1). Source: https://www.foxnews.com/us/melania-trump-blasts-fbis-mar-a-lago-raid-serves-warning-all-americans