The vise is tightening around Donald Trump as 2024 decision looms

One thing is clear from the FBI's Monday search of Donald Trump’s Mar-aLago estate. Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday night, "My beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida is currently under siege and raided and occupied by large groups of FBI agents."

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Trump added that they even broke into his safe. Agents seem to be focusing on the area where Trump's offices and living quarters are located.

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It wasn't immediately clear what the FBI wanted -- or what specifically the agents were searching for. CNN was told by a source that boxes of items were taken in the course of the search.

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We know that federal investigators issued an order to the National Archives and Records Administration in May to obtain classified documents taken to Trump's Florida home.

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This was part of a grand jury investigation into Trump or any other close to him handling classified documents he took to the White House after he left the White House in January.

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15 boxes from White House records that Trump brought to Mar-a-Lago earlier this year were retrieved by the National Archives and returned. The items included letters from former President Barack Obama and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

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The FBI search comes at the same time that Maggie Haberman from The New York Times revealed photos showing torn-up notes that appeared to show Trump's penmanship in the toilets. One of the notes was also in the White House.

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