Trump After FBI Raid in Florida: ‘The Best is Yet to Come’
August 9, 2022 Updated 8:44 A.M. ET
PALM BEACH (FLV) – Hours after news circulated that the Biden Administration’s FBI raided Former President Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago, he posted a video on Truth Social hinting at a 2024 run.
“Soon we will have greatness again,” Trump said. “It is hard-working patriots like you who are going to save our country.”
For minutes, Trump argues that the United States is on decline, all from past remarks before the FBI raid.
“We are a nation that has the highest energy cost in its history and we are no longer energy independent or energy dominant, which we were just two short years ago,” he explained. “We are a nation that surrendered in Afghanistan, leaving behind dead soldiers and American citizens.”
“We are a nation that has weaponized its law enforcement against the opposing political party like never before – we’ve never seen anything like this,” Trump went on.
“Crime is rampant like never before, where the economy has been collapsing, where more people died of COVID in 2021 than in 2020. We are a nation that is allowing Iran to build a massive nuclear weapon and China to use the trillions and trillions of dollars it’s taken from the United States to build a military to rival our own.”
At the end of the promo video, Trump said it is “time to start talking about greatness for our country again.”
On closing, hinting at a potential 2024 run, viewers are left with, “…the best is yet to come.” Watch the full video here.
Trump told New York Magazine that the question is not ‘if’ he will announce a run for president, but whether that announcement comes before or after the 2022 midterm elections: “I would say my big decision will be whether I go before or after.”
Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republicans slammed the Department of Justice and the Biden Administration after the FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago house Monday night.
“The raid of MAL is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves,” DeSantis said. “Now the Regime is getting another 87k IRS agents to wield against its adversaries? Banana Republic.”
Fox News reports that the raid is related to materials Trump allegedly brought to his private residence after his presidency concluded.
Trump said his house was “under siege” by a large group of FBI agents in a statement.
“Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before. After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate. It is prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for President in 2024, especially based on recent polls, and who will likewise do anything to stop Republicans and Conservatives in the upcoming Midterm Elections.” Trump said.
“Such an assault could only take place in broken, Third-World Countries. Sadly, America has now become one of those Countries, corrupt at a level not seen before. They even broke into my safe!” Trump exclaimed.
