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    Social Media, Politicians Make Unfounded Claims of Politicized Mar-a-Lago Search

    by Saranac Hale Spencer Aug 11, 2022 4 minutes

    Quick Take

    FBI agents searched the home of former President Donald Trump in Florida on Aug. 8 looking for presidential records and classified materials that were improperly removed from the White House. Social media posts claiming the FBI search was politically motivated have been swirling online, despite there being no evidence that President Joe Biden “had his department of justice’s FBI raid” Trump’s home, as one viral post claimed.

    Full Story

    As calls for civil war rolled through social media following an FBI search of former on Aug. 8, conservative pundits and politicians fanned those flames by claiming the search was a political attack, despite a lack of evidence.

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