Court papers show that the FBI recovered several documents from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in a probe that includes possible violations of the US Espionage Act:
An aerial view of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is seen on Wednesday, 10 August 2022, in Palm Beach, Florida. FBI agents took away with them a significant amount of classified files after the raid, which ignited a political firestorm in an already bitterly divided country.
Some of the papers were marked "top secret" and were "meant to be only available in special government facilities," said the unsealed seven-page federal court filing. Mr Trump, 76, said he would not block the release of the warrant -- while complaining that he was the victim of "unprecedented political weaponization of law enforcement" by "radical left Democrats."
The Washington Post on Thursday cited anonymous sources close to the investigation as saying classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the papers sought during the raid.Mr Trump himself appeared to deny the claim, posting that the "nuclear weapons issue is a hoax" and even suggesting that the Federal Bureau of Investigation might have been "planting information" at his home.
In an attack that appeared to be a direct response to the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, an armed man tried to storm an FBI office in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Thursday. The Justice Department typically does not confirm or deny whether it is investigating someone, and Garland took pains to emphasise the law was being applied fairly to Mr Trump.
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