FBI agents removed top secret documents from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, officials reveal
FBI agents who searched former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida this week removed 11 sets of classified documents including some marked as top secret, the US Justice Department said, while also disclosing it has probable cause to believe he violated the Espionage Act.
The Justice Department said in the warrant application approved by US Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart that it had probable cause to believe that Trump may have violated the Espionage Act, a federal law that prohibits the possession or transmission of national defence information. The receipt for property that was seized during the execution of a search warrant by the FBI at former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.The warrant showed that FBI agents asked to search a room called “the 45 Office” – Trump was the 45th US president – as well as all other rooms, structures of buildings on the estate used by Trump or his staff where boxes or documents could be stored.
Attorney-General Merrick Garland on Thursday announced that the department asked Reinhart to unseal the warrant. This followed Trump’s claim that the search was political retribution and a suggestion by him, without evidence, that the FBI may have planted evidence against him.
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