In the summer, the FBI searches Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate and seizes thousands of documents. Now a team from the former president is also finding what they are looking for. They discover sensitive papers in a storage room in Florida.
According to media reports, at least two other secret documents emerged during a search of a storage room in the state of Florida used by former US President Donald Trump. A team hired by Trump himself made the find, the Washington Post and the US broadcaster CNN reported, citing informants familiar with the matter. The documents, which were not described in detail, were handed over to the Federal Police FBI.
Trump’s team examined the storage room as part of a larger search of several Republican properties, it said. Trump had previously been asked to comment on whether he had given the FBI all documents classified as confidential, secret or top secret.
The background is the dispute over the handling of government documents that has been going on for months. The FBI searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida, on Aug. 8 and seized a total of about 13,000 documents totaling nearly 22,000 pages, including about 100 classified documents from his tenure.
The search was triggered by a dispute between Trump and the National Archives, which manages documents from presidents. It tried for months to get papers from Trump from his tenure. The fact that the 76-year-old stored the papers at home could have made him liable to prosecution. The investigation is also about the allegation of obstruction of justice.
Trump has already gone to court over the confiscated documents. A judge in the case appointed a special auditor at his request. This is to investigate whether the papers fall under attorney-client privilege – or the so-called executive privilege, which in the United States can shield a president’s papers from the public.
