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Former President Donald Trump is well aware that the FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago home a week ago has created new political friction in an already deeply divided country, and he wants to do something about that.
In an exclusive interview Monday morning with Fox News, the former president pledged he “will do whatever” he can “to help the country,” adding that he understands the “temperature has to be brought down.”
However, he also noted that tens of millions of Americans are “not going to stand for another scam.”
The interview is the first since some 30 FBI agents raided his home a week ago Monday. He told Fox News that he directed his legal reps to contact the Justice Department and offer to help after the unprecedented raid generated no small amount of outrage among his supporters.
According to reports, agents seized a plethora of documents including some that were marked ‘Top Secret,’ though Trump and his surrogates have argued that as president, he declassified everything he had in his possession.
“The country is in a very dangerous position. There is tremendous anger like I’ve never seen before, over all of the scams, and this new one—years of scams and witch hunts, and now this,” Trump told the outlet.
“If there is anything we can do to help, I, and my people, would certainly be willing to do that,” said the former president in his Fox News interview.
“There has never been a time like this where law enforcement has been used to break into the house of a former president of the United States, and there is tremendous anger in the country—at a level that has never been seen before, other than during very perilous times,” Trump said, adding that his representatives have yet to hear back from Biden’s DOJ after reaching out.
“I think they would want the same thing—I’ve never seen anything like this,” Trump said. “It is a very dangerous time for our country.”
“I will do whatever I can to help the country,” he continued.
Trump also noted the “years of fake witch hunts and phony Russia, Russia, Russia schemes and scams,” noting that “nothing happens to those people who perpetuate that—nothing happens with them.”
“And then they break into a president’s house— a sneak attack where it was totally—no one ever thought a thing like this would happen,” Trump said. He added that FBI agents “break in and take whatever they want to take.”
He said FBI agents told his team on the Mar-a-Lago property to “turn off the [security] camera,” and said, “no one can go through the rooms.”
“They could take anything they want, and put anything they want in,” Trump said of the FBI agents. “My people were asked to stand outside.”
“People are so angry at what is taking place,” Trump added. “Whatever we can do to help—because the temperature has to be brought down in the country. If it isn’t, terrible things are going to happen.”
“The people of this country are not going to stand for another scam,” he said.
As for the security cameras, a report over the weekend claimed that Trump and some of his associates and family watched a video feed while the raid was taking place.
Lawyer Christina Bobb said that the former president and many family members watched the FBI during “the whole” raid, meaning that they likely would have been able to see if agents planted any evidence, as Trump suggested last week.
“It’s kind of funny. I think the folks in New York, President Trump, and his family, probably had a better view than I did because they had the CCTV, they were able to watch,” Bobb told the streaming network Real America’s Voice, according to the New York Post.
“I was, you know, I was stuck in the parking lot there to you know, collect paper and answer questions,” she added. “But they were actually able to see the whole thing. So they actually have a better idea of what took place inside.”
