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Rep. Scott Perry claims his cell phone was seized by the FBI the day after Trump's raid

Rep. Scott Perry, a staunch supporter of Donald Trump, said the day after federal agents raided the former president's Mar Arago residence, FBI agents arrested him. I stopped him and said that I had confiscated his cell phone.

Perry, a Republican from Pennsylvania, told Fox News that three of his FBI agents approached him while traveling with his family on Tuesday. , said it had issued a warrant and demanded the phone be handed over.

"They wouldn't contact my lawyer, who would have arranged to get my phone if they wanted it," he reported. said in a statement to the agency.

"I am outraged, but not surprised, that the FBI, under the DOJ's command of Merrick Garland, seized a sitting Congressman's phone. 

“My mobile phone contains information about my legislative and political activities and private/private discussions with my wife, family, voters, and friends. It's not a government job."

Rep. Scott Perry
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The fifth-term congressman said, "Like President Trump last night, the Justice Department chose this needless and aggressive action rather than simply contacting my lawyers."

Perry is the current chairman of the House's highly conservative Freedom Caucus, which backed Trump's unsubstantiated allegations that voter fraud cost him the 2020 election.

He was reportedly in contact with the Trump administration in the days leading up to the Capitol riot.

Perry met voluntarily with the House Selects Committee onJanuary 6 to informJustice Department official Jeffrey Clark of theelection results. The Acting Attorney General who allegedly tried to overturn. He wassummoned in his May.

On Monday, President Trump's home in Florida was raided by his FBI agents. FBI agents were looking for classified documents that the former president allegedly took from the White House at the end of his presidency.

He said he had found classified material from and alerted the FBI. Agents executed a search warrant to look for additional records on the president Trump may have moved to his mansion in Florida.