What We Do and Don’t Know about the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Search

The FBI’s surprise search of former President Trump’s residence has raised unanswered questions and engendered wide speculation. Here is a guide for the perplexed.

What do we know about the law enforcement activity on Monday at Mar-a-Lago?

On Aug. 8, federal agents searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump, who was in New York at the time, released a statement calling the search an “unannounced raid” involving a “large group of FBI agents” and noting that the agents “broke into” his safe. Trump did not say why the search occurred, and the Justice Department and FBI, both at headquarters in Washington and at the Miami field office, have so far declined to comment.