During the search, FBI agents seized a significant amount of documents marked as top secret.
In the United States, a Florida judge has released the former president Donald Trump the search warrant for the home search and related materials.
The warrant shows that the FBI’s search of the home was based in part on suspicions of illegal storage of sensitive defense documents. Any illegal retention of these documents violates US espionage laws. The search was also related to the suspicion of breaking two other laws.
From the documents that have now been made public, it appears that FBI agents seized a significant amount of documents marked as top secret during the search.
Formerly Attorney General of the United States Merrick Garland asked the judge to release the contents of the court-issued search warrant due to the high level of public interest. Garland also said he personally approved the FBI’s search. Trump did not object to the release of the permit.
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida was searched at the beginning of the week.
Trump took the documents with him after his election loss
According to the newspaper, the FBI agents took about 20 boxes of goods in the raid, which contained, among other things, photo folders and information about the French president.
According to Trump’s lawyers, Trump exercised his right as president to change the security classification of documents before the end of his term. However, the paper points out that while the president has the right to change the classification of documents, doing so requires following a federally regulated process.
The US National Archives said in February that it had received 15 boxes of papers from Trump’s Florida mansion. At the time, the Washington Post reported that the boxes contained classified documents that Trump had taken with him after his election loss.
According to the law, the documents should have been handed over after the end of Trump’s presidency, but they had been taken to Mar-a-Lago.
The National Archives asked the Department of Justice to open an investigation into Trump’s activities.