Rudy Giuliani said Donald Trump bragged about the size of the crowd that gathered outside his Mar-a-Lago home after the FBI executed a search warrant there last Monday.
Giuliani told Newsmax that Trump said the search is “gonna help me.”
“His first reaction was….’you see the number of people in front of Mar-a-Lago already? It’s gonna turn around. The American people have common sense, they’ve gone too far now’,” Trump said, according to Giuliani.
Trump has been obsessed with crowd size since the start of his presidency until the end in Jan. 2021 when he incited a mob of his supporters to storm the Capitol.
Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, told the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot that Trump was “concerned about the shot” of the rally area not being full with people so he demanded that armed supporters be allowed to go through the metal detectors to fill the remaining gaps.
The FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago last Monday and seized 11 sets of classified documents. They include documents identified as “Various classified/TS/SCI documents,” according to the inventory unsealed Friday. The list of items taken also notes that agents seized four sets of documents marked “top-secret,” three sets of documents marked “secret” and three sets documents marked “confidential.”
Trump and his allies have reacted to the search with calls to “destroy” and “defund” the FBI and saying the search for classified documents at Trump’s home was politically motivated.
The search warrant unsealed on Friday identified three federal crimes that the Justice Department is looking at as part of its investigation into Trump’s handing of classified documents: violations of the Espionage Act, obstruction of justice and criminal handling of government records.
