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Eric Trump says he was the 'guy who got the call' that the FBI was executing a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago

Eric Trump stands at a podium.
Eric Trump said on Monday night that he was the one who informed his father Mar-a-Lago was being searched.Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images
  • Eric Trump says he was the one who got the call in the morning about the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago.

  • He said the FBI went through an office, a closet, and a safe at Mar-a-Lago.

  • Trump said there is "no family in American history that has taken more arrows in the back" than his.

Eric Trump, former President Donald Trump's son, said on Monday night he was the one who informed his father that Mar-a-Lago was being searched by the FBI.

Trump — speaking to Fox News host Sean Hannity — said he was "the guy that got the call this morning."

"I called my father and let him know that it happened," Trump said. "So I was involved in this all day."

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Trump was commenting on a high-profile FBI search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida on Monday. The former president said the FBI "broke into" his safe when executing the search warrant and denounced the raid as "politically motivated" — despite having himself appointed the FBI's current director, Christopher Wray.

After the search, Eric Trump complained to Hannity that he thought there is "no family in American history that has taken more arrows in the back than the Trump family."

"Every day, we get another subpoena," Trump said. "That's what this is about today, to have 30 FBI agents — actually, more than that —descend on Mar-a-Lago give absolutely, you know, no notice. Go through the gate, start ransacking an office, ransacking a closet. You know, they broke into a safe. He didn't even have anything in the safe. I mean, give me a break."