Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith waits to testify before the House Judiciary Committee about his investigations into President Donald Trump, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026, at the Capitol in Washington. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)
The chairman said that D'Antuono relayed the first issue with the raid was that it was run out of the FBI D.C. field office, rather than the one in Miami.
Additionally, Jordan said that D'Antuono claimed he and others in the FBI Washington field office recommended that Trump be notified before they carried out the search, "or at least when they got there, before they start the search, call the president's lawyers, ask them to come there and meet them." According to Jordan, the Department of Justice (DOJ) rejected the recommendations.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, center, and Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, right, during a hearing in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. (Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Trump continued, "On a phony pretext from a highly political magistrate who they hand-picked late in the evening, just days before the break-in, and trampled upon my rights and civil liberties as if our country that we love so much were a third world nation, we’re like a third world nation."
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Trump told the crowd at the rally that the FBI went through then-former first lady Melania Trump's closet drawers and "even did a deep and ugly search of the room of my sixteen-year-old son."
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