FBI conducts search at Trump’s estate

The Federal Bureau of Investigation searched Donald Trump’s Mara-Lago estate as part of an investigation into whether he took classified records from the White House to his Florida residence, people familiar with the matter said on Monday, a move that represents a dramatic and unprecedented escalation of law enforcement scrutiny of the former president. Trump, disclosing the search in a lengthy statement, asserted that agents had opened up a safe at his home and described their work as an “unannounced raid” that he likened to “prosecutorial misconduct”. The search intensifies the monthslong probe into how classified documents ended up in more than a dozen boxes located at Mar-a-Lago earlier this year.