The U.S. Justice Department says classified documents were 'likely concealed and removed' from former president Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate as part of an effort to obstruct the federal investigation into the records.
Documents at Trump estate 'likely concealed and removed' after June visit: Justice Department
The FBI also seized 33 boxes containing more than 100 classified records during its Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago and found classified documents stashed in Trump's office, according to a filing that lays out the most detailed chronology to date of months of strained interactions between Justice Department officials and Trump representatives over the discovery of government secrets.
It also included a picture of some of the seized documents bearing clear classification markings, perhaps as a way to rebut arguments that it was possible not to appreciate their sensitive nature. The photo shows the cover pages of a smattering of paperclip-bound classified documents — some marked as "TOP SECRET//SCI" with bright yellow borders, and one marked as "SECRET//SCI" with a rust-coloured border — along with whited-out pages, splayed out on a carpet at Mar-a-Lago.
During that visit, the document says, Trump's lawyers told investigators that all the records that had come from the White House were stored in one location — a Mar-a-Lago storage room — and that "there were no other records stored in any private office space or other location at the premises and that all available boxes were searched."
"That the FBI, in a matter of hours, recovered twice as many documents with classification markings as the 'diligent search' that the former president's counsel and other representatives had weeks to perform calls into serious question the representations made in the June 3 certification and casts doubt on the extent of co-operation in this matter," the document states.The U.S.
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