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Trump’s lawyers find more classified docs, hand them over to FBI
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
- The legal team for former President Donald Trump found at least two classified records in a storage unit in West Palm Beach, Florida.
- The materials were handed over to the FBI, according to reports from the Washington Post, CNN, and the New York Times.
- The searches were carried out around Thanksgiving.
A team that former President Donald Trump hired found at least two materials marked as classified while searching for White House documents at a storage facility in West Palm Beach, Florida, the The Washington Post and CNN reported on Wednesday.
The classified documents were handed over to the FBI, according to multiple reports.
A federal judge ordered Trump’s lawyers to search for any classified material still in his possession. The outside firm searched a number of Trump’s properties, including Trump Tower in New York, the Trump Bedminster golf club in New Jersey, the Mar-a-Lago resort and the external storage unit in West Palm Beach.
The searches were carried out around Thanksgiving, according to the New York Times.
The Department of Justice is investigating whether the former president broke the law by keeping U.S. government records, some marked as top secret, after leaving the White House in January 2021.
On Aug. 8, FBI agents seized thousands of documents, about 100 of which were marked classified, from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach.
Trump is also being investigated whether he or his team obstructed justice when FBI agents were sent to search his home. Officials believed more classified documents may still be missing.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in November appointed Jack Smith as special counsel to oversee the investigation of the documents seized and a separate investigation into the former president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
“President Trump and his counsel continue to be cooperative and transparent, despite the unprecedented, illegal and unwarranted attack against President Trump and his family by the weaponized Department of Justice,” said Trump spokesman Steven Cheung.
Smith, a war crimes prosecutor, was appointed as special counsel to ensure the investigation was independent of President Joe Biden, who may run for reelection in 2024 against Trump.
The former president has faced a series of legal setbacks over the past week, including a guilty verdict for tax fraud for the Trump Organization.
Source: The Washington Post
Bill Powers
December 9, 2022 at 8:18 am
I don’t know how it works with the President or Congress, but I do know how it works in national laboratories. There is a list of all the classified documents, no matter the level. Each classified document is assigned to some person or an indication where it is locked away. This way it is easy to determine whether a document is missing or not, and where to find it. I have a feeling that outside of the military and national laboratories what is classified and its location is a mess, with records being very sloppy, and this is why they don’t know what they’re looking for and where to look.
Casey
December 9, 2022 at 11:42 am
While all Joe Bidens records are locked away in a Delaware College where no one can see them and Obama’s records are sealed and no one can see them! Trumps on the other hand are given to the FBI where everyone can see them as they get leaked out.