An FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago?... For the Post, it's just another day in Palm Beach County
We have this saying in The Palm Beach Post newsroom: Palm Beach County is the nexus of all realities.
It seems like every now and then, the universe deems it necessary to remind us of that.
Case in point: On Monday, FBI agents descended upon Mar-a-Lago, the private club and home of former President Donald J. Trump, to execute a search warrant for alleged classified documents they believe Trump made off with when he left the White House back in 2021.
And just like that, the Post was once again covering a breaking news story that was being followed by the entire country -- if not the world. We were once again at the center of the universe; complete with TV news trucks clogging the Southern Boulevard bridge to Palm Beach island, and national media brethren occupying downtown coffee shops and doing breathless stand-ups from the western shore of the Intracoastal Waterway.
Post Political Editor Antonio Fins, no stranger to the Trump news circus... I mean, cycle, was on this story from the beginning Monday evening. After four years of covering the Trump White House from a Palm Beach County perspective, Fins knew how to report and write a story that that our subscribers would want.
Within minutes of Trump's statement on his Truth Social platform confirming rumors of the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago, Fins had one of the most complete stories up on our website:
"PALM BEACH — FBI agents reportedly conducted a search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club on Monday afternoon.
In a statement, Trump blasted the search of his home, which he said was "under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents." Trump did not shed light on why the agents were there, or what they were searching for, other than to exclaim that they "broke" into his safe.
However, the former president is under investigation on a number of different fronts... "
The Post's new politics reporter, Stephany Matat, was out getting her baptism by fire talking to a gathering throng of Trump supporters (and detractors) near Mar-a-Lago. Fins also quickly offered up five potential reasons for why the FBI took the unprecedented step to search a former president's home, and resurrected historical and cultural content about Mar-a-Lago itself -- as only we can.
To that end, Post and Palm Beach Daily News photographers Andres Leiva, Greg Lovett and Damon Higgins scrambled to provide photos, galleries and video for the entire 230-newspaper USA TODAY Network.
And yes, we kept up this coverage for days -- under a national spotlight -- the same week that we covered the beginning of the new school year. The same week we launched a major investigative story about allegations from Glades residents that Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried reneged on promises to help the region's residents in their fight against sugarcane burning.
But when we need to jump into a big breaking news story, we can do it with both feet.
It's what we do, over and over again. Every day, with the support of our subscribers, Post reporters and photographers are always out there looking, covering, questioning. Check out more of their work from the past week below.
I hope you enjoy and continue to support local journalism. We're grateful, and we'll make more.
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Rick Christie
Executive Editor
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