Trump administration aide Kash Patel said he believes the Department of Justice targeted former President Donald Trump’s Florida home because of his possible 2024 ambitions.
‘‘They want President Trump to not announce his candidacy for president, and that’s the end goal,’' Patel, a National Security Council official under Trump, said in a Tuesday interview with Newsmax. ‘‘Whether [it’s] through some form of impeachment or some criminal charge or a fake news disinformation campaign by the radical left-wing mafia, then that’s just as good to them.’’