A lawyer for the former US president had reportedly signed a statement claiming that all classified documents held at Donald Trump's Florida home had been returned to the government:
Former US President Donald Trump is being investigated by the FBI for keeping classified documents in his South Florida beach club.A lawyer for former United States President Donald Trump signed a statement in June that said all classified material held in boxes at Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence had been returned to the government, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
FBI agents searched Mar-a-Lago this week and removed 11 sets of classified documents, including some marked as top secret, according to the Justice Department. Taylor Budowich, a spokesperson for Mr Trump, criticised the FBI search in a statement as an "unprecedented and unnecessary raid" that was part of another "Democrat-fabricated witch hunt."Why are there national security concerns?Early in his presidency, he spontaneously gave highly classified information to Russia’s foreign minister about a planned Islamic State operation while he was in the Oval Office, US officials said at the time.
The Justice Department’s search raises concerns about the threat to national security, former Department of Justice official Mary McCord said.