Trump has more than 300 classified documents at home – VG

UNDER INVESTIGATION: Former President Donald Trump.

More classified documents have reportedly been found at Donald Trump’s Florida home.

Former US President Donald Trump has more than 300 classified documents at his home in Florida, writes The New York Times.

Newspaper This has been confirmed by several sources familiar with the matter. Agents from the FBI in early August searched Trump’s home on the Mar-a-Lago estate on suspicion that classified documents were still there.

It happened after Trump several times handed over classified documents he had at home. In January, he submitted more than 150 classified documents to the National Archives, causing concern in the Ministry of Justice and the establishment of an FBI investigation, the paper said.

Trump submitted new documents to the National Archives in June after being threatened with legal action. However, the FBI discovered additional classified documents when they searched his home in early August.

Claims filed

At the same time, it became known that Trump had filed a lawsuit after the FBI searched his Mar-a-Lago property two weeks ago. NBC News.

Trump asked Monday to temporarily block the FBI from reviewing material seized from his Florida home until a “special master” can be appointed to review the evidence, Reuters wrote.

In US law, a “special master” is a subordinate official appointed by a judge.

The FBI searched Donald Trump’s Florida property, Mar-A-Lago, on orders from US Attorney General Merrick Garland. Never before has this happened to the country’s former president.

According to The Washington Post, the background to the search included, among other things, the suspicion that Donald Trump kept secret documents about nuclear weapons at his home.

Wall Street Journal reported on August 12 that the FBI found eleven classified documents during the search. In addition, some documents must have been classified as “highly classified”.

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