Before we get to the main topic of today’s First Edition, there have been dramatic updates from the United States.
In a stunning escalation, the FBI raided Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida, the former president announced in a statement late last night. Federal investigators reportedly executed a search warrant on Monday morning, as part of the array of investigations into Trump’s affairs. (Read more about the plethora of lawsuits and investigations Donald Trump is facing in this brilliant recap.) This warrant is related to material Trump took from the White House to Mar-a-Lago, which included many pages of classified documents. Trump was in New Jersey at the time of the raid of his “winter White House” — his second home and own mecca which you can read more about here — and has since expressed outrage and fury in a statement comparing the raid to Watergate. Trump has attacked the search as a “weaponisation of the justice system” and, crucially, pointed to it as further evidence of a scheme to stop him from running for president in 2024.
