Melania Trump said that the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 angered her, calling the federal agents’ execution of a search warrant on the Trump Florida estate an “invasion of privacy.”
“It made me angry, yes,” she told Fox News in an interview that aired on Thursday morning. “Invasion of privacy. And the way it was done was — I was really surprised.”
Asked what the state of her house was after the raid, Trump said she “saw unpleasant stuff that nobody wants to see it.”
“And you get angry, because nobody should be putting up with that kind of stuff. Some person — I don’t even know who or how many people — they went through my stuff,” she said.
Trump has previously referred to the raid on Mar-a-Lago as an “invasion of privacy.” In one of her recent videos posted on social media, she appeared to suggest that the search was unconstitutional and, more ominously, that it “serves as a warning to all Americans, a reminder that our freedom and rights must be respected.”
Unsurprisingly, that language echoes Donald Trump’s attacks on the FBI search. The former president has called the Mar-a-Lago raid “illegal” and “unconstitutional,” and he has repeatedly falsely accused President Joe Biden of “weaponizing” federal law enforcement to punish him. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has denounced such claims as “false” and “extremely dangerous.”
The Fox News sit-down was the former first lady’s first TV interview in more than two years, and it comes just days ahead of the release of her self-titled memoir.
Melania Trump, who is known to be fiercely guarded about her private life and shares her husband’s disdain for the media, said her memoir will “clarify the facts” about herself and present “the truth.” From the marketing around the book — which has included cryptic black-and-white videos on her social media that allude to conspiracies against her husband — the memoir could touch on her past modeling work, the media coverage of her time in the White House, and her husband’s many legal woes.
This article was originally published on MSNBC.com
