FBI agents who searched Mar-a-Lago this week removed 11 sets of classified documents including some marked as top secret, the US Justice Department says.
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 bombshell disclosures on Friday were made in a search warrant and accompanying legal documents released four days after FBI agentsAn aerial view of former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.Trump, in a statement on his social media platform, said the records at issue were “all declassified” and placed in “secure storage”.
The department also said it had concerns he may have broken several other statutes related to the mishandling of government records, including one that makes it a crime to try to hide or destroy government documents regardless of whether they are classified. “Top secret” is the highest level of classification, reserved for the country’s most closely held national security information. Such documents are usually kept in special government facilities because its disclosure could cause grave damage to national security.FBI agents on Monday collected four sets of top secret documents, three sets of secret documents and three sets of confidential documents, the documents showed.
The investigation into Trump’s removal of records started this year, after the National Archives and Records Administration, an agency charged with safeguarding presidential records that belong to the public, made a referral to the department.
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