The FBI searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Monday. Now it is known: The investigators found what they were looking for.
On Monday, FBI investigators searched the home of ex-President Donald Trump in Florida. The suspicion: he could have kept documents classified as secret there even after his term of office. The search warrant published by a judge on Friday shows that secret documents were actually confiscated during the raid. The Justice Department also said it suspects Trump of violating the Espionage Act.
The list of confiscated items that has now been published shows that the FBI employees from Mar-a-Lago carried 20 boxes. Inside were one set of “top secret” government documents, four sets of “top secret” documents, three “secret” documents, and three sets of “confidential documents,” according to CNN. A part should therefore “only be accessible in special government institutions”. Among other things, these documents contained information about the President of France.
Did Trump violate anti-espionage law?
Several folders containing photos, classified government information and at least one handwritten note were also confiscated. In the published search warrant, the raid is justified, among other things, with the suspicion of possession of sensitive defense documents. Accordingly, it was about a possible violation of the anti-espionage law in the United States. The Washington Post reported on Friday night that the FBI was also looking for classified documents about nuclear weapons. Trump had denied this. “The nuclear weapons issue is a hoax,” he wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.