FBI seized top secret documents at Trump’s residence
After the Mar-a-Lago raid, the search warrant was released. Likewise, a list of confiscated documents containing, among other things, information about the President of France.
Did not resist the publication of the search warrant: Donald Trump on Tuesday evening in New York.
Photo: Yuki Iwamura (Keystone)
In the Search of the home of former US President Donald Trump In Florida, the FBI has confiscated several top-secret documents. This emerges from the receipt for the confiscated items, which a court in the US state of Florida published together with the search warrant on Friday at the request of US Attorney General Merrick Garland. Trump had previously written on the social network Truth Social, which he co-founded, that all documents had been released, so the secrecy had been lifted.
According to the FBI list, agents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate found a set of Top Secret/SCI documents, which are top secret and can only be viewed at special government facilities. Four sentences were classified as “Top Secret”, three more as “Secret”, and the remaining three as “Confidential”. The Washington Post reported that the FBI was also looking for classified documents about nuclear weapons.
According to the list, the agents also confiscated numerous boxes, a pardon for Trump confidante Roger Stone, unspecified information about the “President of France” and two photo albums. The papers that have now been published say nothing about the content of the documents.
Unprecedented incident: Police officers outside Donald Trump’s home during the raid in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
Photo: Terry Renna (Keystone)
Trump wrote on Friday on the network he co-founded Truth Social that had the authorities asked him about it, he would have given them all the documents. “The bigger problem is what are they going to do with the 33 million pages of documents, many of which are classified, that President Obama took with him to Chicago?” he wrote in the same message. Trump had previously made the same claim without providing any supporting evidence.
In general, the truthfulness of Trump’s statements is disputed. The Washington Post fact checkers had proven Trump made more than 30,000 false or misleading statements during his four-year term from 2017 to 2021.
At the beginning of the year it became known that the National Archives suspected several boxes with confidential material in Mar-a-Lago. Trump finally handed over several documents to the agency in January. After that, according to US media reports, there was a further exchange between investigators and Trump’s lawyers. Officials suspected that Trump or his team were continuing to withhold important documents, the Washington Post wrote, citing anonymous sources.
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