In a recent investigation of a storage facility in West Palm Beach, Florida, attorneys for former president Donald Trump discovered at least two documents marked as classified and gave them to the FBI, according to a report released on Wednesday.
According to the Washington Post’s anonymous sources, an independent team hired by Trump’s representatives to check his other assets for any further classified papers made the discovery. Although the nature of the classified files was not immediately obvious, the newspaper reported that the storage facility where they were discovered had previously housed items from a Trump staffer’s office in Northern Virginia.
Approximately 100 classified documents were found by the FBI after searching Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach on August 8. This is on top of the 37 secret materials that Trump’s attorneys removed from the residence during a visit in June and the 15 boxes that included around 184 classified documents that the National Archives and Records Administration seized in January.
Although Trump representatives had verified that all the confidential materials sought in a Justice Department subpoena had been retrieved and returned, the FBI searched the property in August after discovering information that suggested there were still more sensitive records inside.
The newspaper reported that the Trump organization engaged a third party to examine sites including Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, and Trump Tower in New York after a federal judge ordered them to show their complete compliance with the subpoena.
A spokeswoman for the Justice Department declined to comment.
In a statement, a Trump spokesman said that “President Trump and his counsel continue to be cooperative and transparent, despite the unprecedented, illegal, and unwarranted attack against President Trump and his family by the weaponized Department of Justice.” This was in response to reports that an outside company was looking for classified documents.
A follow-up phone call to Spokesman Steven Cheung regarding later reports claiming that a search of the storage facility had brought up two objects with classified marks was not returned.
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