DOJ releases photos of classified documents spread across the floor at Mar-a-lago (Image: DOJ)
Donald Trump’s attorneys discovered four documents marked “classified” in his bedroom four months after the FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago estate. The new revelation is among those in a new filing by a federal judge in the case.
In the spring of 2022, the Justice Department subpoenaed Trump and directed him to return the classified documents he had taken. However, in June that year, Trump’s attorneys falsely insisted to law enforcement that there were no such materials at Mar-a-Lago. When Trump subsequently refused to comply with the subpoena, the FBI executed the search warrant in August 2022 to retrieve the classified documents.
In December 2022, Trump’s legal team swept his properties and found even more classified documents – this time in the former president’s bedroom. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell expressed bewilderment at this. “Notably, no excuse is provided as to how the former president could miss the classified-marked documents found in his bedroom at Mar-a-Lago,” she wrote.
After the Mar-a-Lago raid, Republicans went on the offensive and tried to suggest a political motivation for the raid.
Trump took to Truth Social to accuse that the Justice Department “AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE” in the execution of the court-approved search warrant at his Mar-a-Lago residence. He further claimed this to be proof that President Joe Biden is “MENTALLY UNFIT TO HOLD OFFICE.”
Trump’s allies jumped at the chance to criticize Biden. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Arizona), for example, claimed that the incumbent Democratic president “ordered the hit on Trump at Mar-a-Lago.” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) added that the Justice Department and the FBI had plans to “assassinate” the former president. Trump even issued an outlandish fundraising appeal that falsely claimed Biden was “locked & loaded” and “ready to take me out” during the FBI’s search of his glorified country club.
A Trump adviser connected to his Save America PAC acknowledged scanning the contents of the box containing the classified materials in 2021 and storing them on a personal laptop.
A witness recently came forward to say the FBI did not examine a locked closet in Trump’s bedroom during the raid.
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