Reports that the FBI already seized documents from Mar-a-Lago in June indicate that Trump may have hidden other documents that were retrieved in this week's raid.
Federal investigators quietly retrieved classified documents from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in June after obtaining a grand jury subpoena to return the documents to the National Archives, months prior to the search warrant that was executed on the property earlier this week.and met with federal officials that month as they arrived at his estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
“After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate,”Trump’s level of cooperation isn’t clear, however, and the search warrant suggests that the former president may have misled officials about the documents remaining on the premises or stopped cooperating with the investigation altogether.
Trump greeted investigators but did not personally show them around Mar-a-Lago when they came to retrieve the documents in June. His lawyers did show investigators where Trump had kept the documents, includingfrom Mar-a-Lago that day, and told the former president he needed to secure his storage locations better.information the agency received from an unknown informant
— that suggested more classified documents with national security implications remained at Mar-a-Lago. Because they weren’t removed when investigators came in June, it’s possible the department wasn’t aware that these documents were there. The subpoena in June required Trump to turn over any classified documents, giving credence to the possibility that authorities were not yet aware of the 12 boxes taken from Trump’s residence earlier this week.Sunlight Reports’s Don Lewis noted in a tweetAccording to sources with knowledge of the DOJ’s actions, the documents that remained at the Mar-a-Lago estate after June
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