The FBI agents who on Monday Home of former US President Donald Trump searched recovered classified documents, including some marked as “top secret”, the highest level of confidentiality of information within the intelligence of that country, and what they should only be in special government facilities, as reported today by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
The outlet, which had access to the inventory of the seized materials, explained that the FBI took a total of twenty boxes of Trump’s Florida mansion, including eleven collections of classified materials.
The WSJ says the list, which could be released as soon as does not give details about the content of those documents.
Among the materials recovered by the FBI and that do appear in detail, the newspaper highlighted files related to the presidential pardon of former Trump aide Roger Stone and a report on Emmanuel Macron, the president of France.
The inventory is contained in a seven-page document that also includes the search warrant from Mar-a-Lago.
The US Attorney General, Merrick Garland, He said yesterday that he asked a Florida court to make all that information public.
The newspaper The Washington Post, citing anonymous sources, reported yesterday that the registry They searched for classified documents on nuclear weapons that the former president would have taken from the White House.
Trump himself requested that the content of the documents seized in his house be published, in an operation that he continues to describe as a “political persecution” of the Joe Biden government against him, a position shared by the Republicans.
PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE REQUESTED REGISTRATION FOR POSSIBLE VIOLATION OF THE ESPIONAGE LAW
The search warrant and the inventory of what was seized in the house raid revealed that the The US prosecutor’s office asked a judge for permission, alleging the possible violation of the Espionage Law by Trump, by stealing classified documents when leaving the White House.
The foregoing was made evident after the publication of these records, after Garland requested that these data cease to be under summary secrecy, which the former president himself has not objected to.
The order approved by Palm Beach Judge Bruce Reindhart, it was signed on August 5 and gave until the 19th of this month for the FBI to carry out the search.
It detailed that the The FBI may seize any document or box marked “classified,” any evidence of data transmission, or national security information. and any presidential files created between January 20, 2017 and January 20, 2021, the term of Trump’s term.
In addition, the detectives also could search for any evidence of destruction of documents of the Presidency.