The Tuesday night court filing indicates that federal investigators are looking into whether Trump’s camp intentionally misled them about the unlawful possession of the secret documents.
Trump’s lawyers said “there were no other records stored in any private office space or other location at the Premises and that all available boxes were searched,” according to the filing.
The Justice Department believed that to be untrue and requested a warrant to search the estate. During their Aug. 8 search, the feds found classified documents stashed in drawers in Trump’s home office. Department investigators “developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the Storage Room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government’s investigation,” the filing states.
The Tuesday filing provides the most detailed timeline of the interactions between Trumps’ team and Justice Department officials ahead of the FBI search. It also includes a photograph of documents labeled “TOP SECRET” with bright yellow borders and redacted pages splayed out on a carpet at Mar-a-Lago.
The filings showed a photograph of the documents labeled “TOP SECRET laid out on a carpet at Mar-a-Lago.
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