During the search of the American former President Trump last week, the FBI seized eleven parties with secret documents, various American media write on Friday on the basis of a search warrant. Some of those documents are said to contain state secrets. Also, certain material that has been seized should actually only be available in secure government buildings, writes The New York Times.
According to The Wall Street Journal The FBI has confiscated about 20 boxes and several ring binders of photographs. A note with which Trump has waived the sentence of his adviser Roger Stone has also been seized. In addition, the newspaper reports that the seized documents contain information about French President Emmanuel Macron.
The Justice Department asked a Florida judge Friday to release the search warrant. The 76-year-old former president has already said he would not block release of the warrant. He did say that he is the victim of “unprecedented political efforts by law enforcement” by “radical-left Democrats”.
The Justice Department points out that Trump and his lawyers have received a copy of the search warrant, as well as a receipt of the seized documents. They could also have shared its contents with the judiciary of their own accord.
FBI would have searched for information about nuclear weapons
The FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago golf resort in Florida on Monday. Initially, much was unclear because the intelligence service did not provide an official explanation for the raid. It soon became known that it probably had to do with secret documents that Trump had taken from the White House after his election defeat in 2020.
Reported earlier today The Washington Post remember that the FBI was looking for documents on nuclear weapons during the raid. It was not clear whether it was classified information.
The search makes clear “how great the fear is that the documents fall into the wrong hands”, the newspaper writes. The New York Times reported that the documents are part of “one of the most secret files” in Washington.
On Thursday it was already announced that employees of the Ministry of Justice had collected documents from Mar-a-Lago in the spring. Trump also received a subpoena from the Department to return classified documents. This means that the ministry first looked for alternatives to a raid.