FBI agents searched the corrupter's home at Mar-a-Lago, looking for secret government papers he was not allowed to remove from the files. Naturally they had to look inside his safe, but if "breaking in" implies damaging the safe, that was gratuitous. Thugs often cause gratuitous damage to people when they search. and many of those people aren't rich like the corrupter and can't shrug off the cost of those damages

They should have given him — and anyone whose premises they search — the chance to open things for them and avoid damage.

However, there is no reason to suppose he was honest about this. (He's not usually honest.) Maybe the safe was opened without damaging it.