Rep. Scott Perry, a Pennsylvania Republican, said Tuesday that FBI agents had seized his cell phone.
Perry revealed the alleged seizure of his phone in a statement to Fox News.
Perry did not say what reason the FBI gave for taking the device.
A key ally of former President Donald Trump is claiming that federal agents seized his cell phone a day after they executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago.
In a statement provided to Insider, Rep. Scott Perry, a Republican from Pennsylvania, said that on Tuesday morning, "while traveling with my family, 3 FBI agents visited me and seized my cell phone."
Perry denounced the alleged seizure, first reported by Fox News, but did not say what reason the FBI gave him for taking the phone.
"I'm outraged — though not surprised — that the FBI under the direction of Merrick Garland's DOJ, would seize the phone of a sitting Member of Congress," he stated.
Perry's office did not provide a copy of the search warrant.
Although Attorney General Merrick Garland was appointed by President Joe Biden, the director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, is a holdover from the Trump administration.
Following the 2020 election, Perry avidly promoted false claims of massive fraud and backed efforts to overturn the results. In text messages obtained by the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, Perry urged former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to have US officials "immediately seize" Dominion voting machines, claiming the British government...
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