唐纳德·特朗普和其他共和党高层领导人发表了快速反应这位前总统周一宣布，他的Mar-a-Lago俱乐部遭到联邦调查局的突袭，重点似乎是特朗普离开白宫时带走的“许多页机密文件”。
许多共和党人支持特朗普未经证实的说法，即联邦调查局的突袭是政治性的，旨在将官僚机构“武器化”以对抗共和党人，并阻碍他重返政治圈的机会。
“这是检察官的不当行为，司法系统的武器化，以及激进的左翼民主党人的攻击，他们迫切希望我在2024年竞选，”特朗普说书写他在周一晚上宣布了联邦调查局对Mar-a-Lago的突袭。
但特朗普和他的支持者并不总是对联邦调查局处理机密信息的反应保持警惕。
如果该机构的调查被证明属实，特朗普持有总统文件将意味着他从事了与2016年民主党对手类似的行为希拉里·克林顿当时她因在担任国务卿期间使用私人电子邮件服务器而受到中情局的调查。他反复呼吁对她的电子邮件进行调查。
特朗普支持联邦调查局对克林顿的调查，并继续抨击克林顿在2016年被时任联邦调查局局长詹姆斯·科米清除了指控。
同样，许多共和党人也对联邦调查局的突袭感到不满支持该机构对克林顿的调查2016。
“我们是一个法治国家，这些法律应该平等地适用于所有美国人，不管他们的政治背景如何，”洛杉矶共和党众议员史蒂夫·斯卡利斯说。,在联邦调查局重新调查克林顿使用私人电子邮件服务器之后。
斯卡利斯在2016年的一份声明中说，“联邦调查局今天决定重新审理此案，这是确保像克林顿国务卿这样的精英受到适用于所有其他美国人的同样法律追究的关键一步。”
以下是特朗普过去关于处理机密信息的一些公开声明，其中很多都与联邦调查局对克林顿在巴拉克·奥巴马总统手下任职期间使用私人电子邮件服务器的调查有关。
2016年7月6日:
特朗普在推特上写道，“邪恶的希拉里·克林顿和她的团队在处理非常敏感、高度机密的信息时极其粗心。”不适合!"
2016年8月16日:
在威斯康星州西本德的一次竞选活动中，特朗普说:“我们看到一位前国务卿就她的非法电子邮件计划向国会撒谎，冒着无辜美国人生命的危险，给我们的政府带来耻辱，非常非常的耻辱。”
“在我的政府中，我将执行所有关于保护机密信息的法律，”他继续说道。
Republican Presidential nominee Donald J. Trump holds a rally at Giant Center, Nov. 4, 2016, in Hershey, Pa.
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2016年8月18日:
在北卡罗来纳州夏洛特的一次竞选活动中，特朗普说:“在政治腐败问题上，我们将恢复我们政府的荣誉。在我的政府中，我将执行所有关于保护机密信息的法律。没有人会凌驾于法律之上。”
2016年9月7日:
在费城的一次竞选活动中，特朗普说，“我们必须做的第一件事就是执行所有分类规则，并执行所有与处理分类信息有关的法律。”
“希拉里·克林顿把她的电子邮件放在一个秘密服务器上，除了那个提供第五封邮件的人之外，没有人知道，记得吗?他到底发生了什么事?他在哪里?他怎么了?他去哪里了?他宣誓第五修正案。从来没有听说过——那是他的末日……她把她的电子邮件放在一个秘密服务器上，以掩盖她在国务院的有偿服务丑闻，”他补充道。
特朗普说:“没有什么比政府官员出售公职更威胁我们民主的完整性了。”
2016年9月19日:
在佛罗里达州迈耶斯堡的一次竞选活动上，特朗普说，“我们也需要对机密信息的最佳保护。这是最糟糕的情况。希拉里的私人电子邮件丑闻使我们的机密信息落入我们的敌人手中，这使她失去了总统资格。完全可以。”
2016年10月17日:
特朗普在推特上写道，“维基解密证明，即使是克林顿竞选团队也知道不正当、不当处理的机密信息，但没有人受到指控?作弊!”
What Trump has said before about sharing classified information
Donald Trump and other top GOP leaders issuedswift responsesto the former president's announcement on Monday that his Mar-a-Lago Club was subject to an FBI raid, which appears to be focused on "many pages of classified documents" that Trump reportedly took with him upon leaving the White House.
Many Republicans rallied around Trump's unproven claims that the FBI's raid was political in nature, intended to "weaponize" bureaucratic agencies against Republicans and stunt his chances at throwing his hat back in the political ring.
"It is prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don't want me to run in 2024," Trumpwrotein his announcement of the Mar-a-Lago FBI raid on Monday night.
But Trump and his supporters haven't always been wary of the FBI response to the handling of classified information.
If the agency's investigation is proven true, Trump's holding onto presidential documents would mean he engaged in acts similar to that of his 2016 Democratic rivalHillary Clintonwhen she was under the agency's probes for using a private email server as the secretary of state. He repeatedly called for investigations into her emails.
Trump supported the FBI investigation into Clinton as they were going on, and has continued to hammer Clinton for getting cleared of the charges by then-FBI Director James Comey in 2016.
Similarly, many of the Republicans upset with the FBI raid alsosupportedthe agency's investigations into Clinton in2016.
"We are a nation of laws, and those laws should be applied equally to all Americans, regardless of their political connections,"said Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La.,after the FBI reopened its investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server.
"Today's decision by the FBI to reopen this case is a critical step toward ensuring that elites like Secretary Clinton are held accountable by the same laws that apply to every other American," Scalise said in a statement in 2016.
Here are a number of Trump's past public statements about the handling of classified information, much of which linked to the FBI's probe into Clinton's use of a private email server as she served under President Barack Obama.
July 6, 2016:
Trump tweeted, "Crooked Hillary Clinton and her team 'were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.' Not fit!"
Aug. 16, 2016:
At a campaign event in West Bend, Wisconsin, Trump said, "We've seen a former secretary of state lie to Congress about her illegal email scheme, risk innocent American lives and bring dishonor onto our government, great, great dishonor."
"In my administration, I'm going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information," he went on.
Aug. 18, 2016:
At a campaign event in Charlotte, North Carolina, Trump said, "On political corruption, we are going to restore honor to our government. In my administration, I'm going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. No one will be above the law."
Sept. 7, 2016:
At a campaign event in Philadelphia, Trump said, "One of the first things we must do is to enforce all classification rules and to enforce all laws relating to the handling of classified information."
"Hillary Clinton put her emails on a secret server nobody knew about except for the man that was giving the Fifth, remember? What ever happened to him? Where is he? What happened to him? Where did he go? He pled the Fifth. Never heard - that's the end of him…She put her emails on a secret server to cover up her pay-for- play scandal in the State Department," he added.
"Nothing threatens the integrity of our democracy more than when government officials put their public office up for sale," Trump said.
Sept. 19, 2016:
At a campaign event in Fort Meyers, Florida, Trump said, “We also need the best protection of classified information. That is the worst situation. Hillary's private email scandal, which put our classified information in the reach of our enemies, disqualifies her from the presidency. Totally."
Oct. 17, 2016:
Trump tweeted, "Wikileaks proves even the Clinton campaign knew Crooked, mishandled classified info, but no one gets charged? RIGGED!"
