It contains 58 bedrooms, 33 bathrooms, a private beach — and until recently, some of America's most classified documents. As the FBI launches an investigation, experts reveal the threat to national security at the former president's luxurious Mar-a-Lago.
They did, however, conduct physical screenings to make sure no one brought in prohibited items, and further screening for guests in proximity to the former president and other protected persons.
However, Ms McCord said she saw no "plausible argument that he had made a conscious decision about each one of these to declassify them before he left."Monday's seizure by FBI agents of multiple sets of documents and dozens of boxes, including information about US defence and a reference to the "French President," poses a frightening scenario for intelligence professionals.
In a high-profile example, Mr Trump huddled in 2017 with Japan's then-prime minister Shinzo Abe at an outdoor dinner table while guests hovered nearby, listening and taking photos that they later posted on Twitter.
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