FBI May Have Planted 'Listening Devices' During Raid: Trump Jr.'s Fiancée

(R–L) Barron Trump, -then-First Lady Melania Trump, then-President Donald Trump, Tiffany Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle, Lara Trump, Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, and Michael Boulos stand after the president delivered his acceptance speech for the Republican Party nomination for reelection during the final day of the Republican National Convention at the South Lawn of the White House on Aug. 27, 2020. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

A person close to the Trump family suggested the FBI may have planted "listening devices" during a raid targeting former President Donald Trump's Florida residence earlier this week.

Lawyers for the former president previously said that FBI agents would not allow Trump's team to observe or supervise their search of Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach. One lawyer, Lindsey Halligan, told Fox News on Thursday that agents are believed to have searched Trump’s bedroom, office, and a storage room.

Because the FBI allegedly "didn't allow anybody to supervise what they were doing, and they specifically requested to turn off the security cameras," Kimbery Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr.'s fiancée and an advisor to the former president's 2020 campaign, told Newsmax. "Why? Because they didn't want to be caught with what they were doing. How do you know there weren't listening devices planted or evidence planted there?

"It's something that has to be investigated and checked out, and we want to see the affidavit and what was their probable cause to be able to go in there and break into the president's home," she added. For her claim, Guilfoyle did not provide evidence.

Trump's son Eric Trump told the Daily Mail on Wednesday that security cameras remained on when the agents carried out their search, accusing the agents of refusing to hand over a warrant and kicking lawyers off the premises. Agents, he said, told Trump's team to turn off the cameras but they remained on, and those agents went to places "they shouldn't have been."

No Response

The FBI and Department of Justice have not responded to requests for comment. The judge who approved the FBI warrant, Bruce Reinhart, ordered the Justice Department on Wednesday to respond to requests to unseal the warrant in the case.

The White House said President Joe Biden was not aware of the FBI search before it was announced earlier this week. Top Republicans have called on the Department of Justice to release documents pertaining to the raid or to have Attorney General Merrick Garland speak about the matter.

Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray have remained silent on the Mar-a-Lago search. But on Wednesday, Wray complained to reporters in a press conference about alleged violent threats levied against federal law enforcement agents in the wake of the raid.

The former president on Wednesday took to his Truth Social app and speculated on whether the FBI planted evidence. Members of Trump's team said he wasn't there while the raid occurred.

"The FBI and others from the Federal Government would not let anyone, including my lawyers, be anywhere near the areas that were rummaged and otherwise looked at during the raid on Mar-a-Lago," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Everyone was asked to leave the premises, they wanted to be left alone, without any witnesses to see what they were doing, taking or, hopefully not, 'planting.'"