The FBI He would be looking for official documents at the Florida residence of former United States President Donald Trump (2017 – 2021), according to The New York Times, which cited sources close to the investigation.
According to the version of the Times – one of the newspapers most critical of the former president – these documents would include, among others, Classified material that Trump would have taken with him from the White House instead of having delivered it to the historical archive as required by law.
Mar-a-Lago, the mansion that Trump owns in Palm Beach, in southeastern Florida, was searched this Monday by FBI agents, as announced by the Ex leader.
“These These are dark times for our nationwhile my beautiful home at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach is now being besieged, raided and occupied by a large group of FBI agents,” Trump (2017-2021) wrote in a statement.
The Republican stated that “something like this had never happened before to a president of the USA”.
For its part, the Times information is signed by Maggie Haberman, the same editor who has written a book in which photographs are published in which there are some notes that Trump supposedly would have thrown down the toilet while he was president.
The images are part of the book “Confidence Man: The making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America”, and were obtained by the author thanks to sources from the former Republican administration.
One of these images shows a toilet inside the White House and the second another of a Trump trip abroad. The word “qualified” can be read on one of the torn notes, and on another Stefanik, a possible reference to Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, a Trump ally who became the party’s “number three” in the House.
It is not clear who wrote them, but according to CNN their handwriting appears to be that of the former president. ”Who knows what those papers were? Only him and supposedly whoever dealt with it,” Haberman told CNN on Monday, making it clear that beyond the content that can be inferred, the most important thing about the matter affects the preservation of official documents.
The reporter recalls that the staff of the White House during the mandate of Trump (2017-2021) pointed out that the now former US president I used to flush documents down the toilet.
This is not the first time Trump has been accused of ripping up official documents. In February, the media published the discovery of several boxes with material and work information that the former president had in his house in Florida.
Among the documents were correspondence sent to him by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during the bilateral thaw process, and which Trump once described as “love letters”, as well as a letter left in the Oval Office by his predecessor, Barack Obama (2009-2017).
Haberman had already assured in February that Trump used to flush papers down the toilet and that, according to White House staff, sometimes got to clog the pipesan accusation that the former president then considered “categorically false.”
“You have to be pretty desperate to sell books if part of your promotional strategy is photos of papers in a cup,” Trump spokeswoman Taylor Budowich told Axios on Monday.