‘Seems Political’: Andrew Cuomo, Andrew Yang React to FBI Raid on Trump’s Home

Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo questioned the Department of Justice for authorizing the FBI to raid former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property.

Yang and Cuomo’s Tuesday statements became the few voices from non-Republicans who questioned the nature of the raid as being political.

“I’m no Trump fan. I want him as far away from the White House as possible. But a fundamental part of his appeal has been that it’s him against a corrupt government establishment,” Yang, who runs the Forward Party, a national political party that brands itself as a movement away from the “broken political system,” wrote on Twitter on Monday.

“This raid strengthens that case for millions of Americans who will see this as unjust persecution,” Yang wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.

“It seems like this was authorized by a local judge and a particular FBI office without buy-in or notification of higher levels of government,” Yang added. “But literally no one will believe that or make a distinction. It’s probably bureaucratic but it seems political.”

Cuomo Weighs In

“DOJ must immediately explain the reason for its raid & it must be more than a search for inconsequential archives or it will be viewed as a political tactic and undermine any future credible investigation & legitimacy of January 6 investigations,” Cuomo, a vehement critic of Trump, wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.

“DOJ must disclose the bona fide nature of the August 8 action or else the republicans will use it to Discredit the Jan 6 investigation, which would be a terrible disservice to the good work of the house committee in exposing The Trump administration violations,” the former governor wrote in a separate post two hours later.

Secret Service personnel in front of the home of former President Donald

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