Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is calling for the repeal of the Espionage Act after the FBI raided former President Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago. Paul made the announcement in a tweet on Saturday night. “The espionage act was abused from the beginning to imprison World War I dissenters. It is time to repeal this flagrant affront to the 1st Amendment,” Paul wrote. FBI agents executed a search warrant at Trump’s Florida estate on Monday and seized items, including 11 sets of classified material, as well as some classified as top secret. FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S LAWYER CONFIRMED IN JUNE NO CLASSIFIED MATERIAL REMAINS AT MAR-A-LAGO Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks during the Federal Hearing on the COVID Response on Capitol Hill, June 16, 2022, in Washington, DC (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) In a post on Truth Social after the warrant was made public on Friday, Trump said the documents obtained by federal agents were “all declassified.” “Number one, it was all declassified. Number two, they didn’t have to ‘grab’ anything. They could have it whenever they wanted without playing politics and breaking into Mar-a-Lago. It was in secure storage, with an additional lock placed according to their request…” Trump said. “They could have had it whenever they wanted—and that includes a LOT OF PAST. ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS ASK. The bigger problem is, what are they going to do with the 33 million pages of documents, many of which are classified, that President Obama went to Chicago?’ CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The National Archives and Records Administration said in a press release that Ex President Obama he does not control presidential records from his administration. Adam Sabes is a writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to [email protected] and on Twitter @asabes10.
