Rudy Giuliani: Trump will ‘raid every one of Biden’s houses’ if former president wins 2024 election
- Rudy Giuliani, a former New York mayor and ex-personal lawyer to Donald Trump, said the FBI’s search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club was a ‘political act’
- Giuliani said Trump could use the FBI to retaliate against Joe Biden if he were to head back to the Oval Office
Former New York city mayor Rudy Giuliani earlier this week said Donald Trump would “raid” US President Joe Biden’s homes if he were to win the White House in 2024, with Giuliani, former personal lawyer to Trump, arguing that the FBI’s search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club was a “political act.”
Giuliani, a long-time Trump loyalist, told The New York Post that Trump could use the FBI to retaliate against Biden if he were to head back to the Oval Office.
“Breaking into the home of a former president is a political act – particularly since you’re breaking precedent. All of a sudden, you’re the first president of the United States who introduced the banana-republic process of prosecuting your predecessor. We’ve avoided it for 240 years. Trump didn’t do it to Hillary. Ford didn’t do it,” he told the newspaper.
“If Trump gets elected, the first thing he’ll do is raid every one of Biden’s houses,” he added.
When he spoke to the newspaper, Giuliani argued at the time that the search had been conducted to aid the House committee investigating the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.
However, Friday’s release of the FBI search warrant and property list revealed that agents were looking for documents connected to potential violations of the Espionage Act, which bars the unauthorised removal of defence-related information that could aid a foreign government.
Trump is also being investigated for potential obstruction of justice violations.
