Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland released a letter accusing President Donald Trump of showing off a classified map on a flight to his golf club and holding onto a sensitive document during his first term in office.
President Donald Trump is facing allegations that he showed off a classified map on a 2022 flight to his New Jersey golf club and reportedly held onto sensitive documents that only a few people in the federal government could access.
The letter released on Wednesday by Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, follows a long-concluding probe into Trump holding onto classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.RELATED: FBI fires agents who worked on Trump classified document probeAccording to The Associated Press, Raskin’s letter quotes a newly disclosed Justice Department memo from January 2023 in which prosecutors referenced evidence they stated had accumulated as they moved toward a felony indictment of Trump that would be filed months later.Rep. Jamie Raskin’s letter describes a June 2022 flight to Donald Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, where Trump reportedly took classified documents, and states that prosecutors "identified a classified map that we believe Trump may have shown to individuals on board," according to Raskin's letter, obtained by The Associated Press. Citing the letter, the AP reported that prosecutors said in their memo that their probe implied that Susie Wiles, Trump’s future chief of staff at the White House, was on the airplane and witnessed what transpired.RELATED: Jack Smith defends investigations into Trump during House Judiciary Committee hearingRaskin’s letter also noted that the memo from prosecutors also stated that the FBI determined that Trump appeared to have retained classified documents "pertinent to his business interests."The classified document probe led by former special counsel Jack Smith resulted in felony charges that accused Trump of stockpiling top-secret records and obstructing FBI efforts to retrieve the files. RELATED: Trump pleads not guilty to federal charges that he illegally kept classified documentsRaskin revealed the existence of the memo in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi in which he asked for more information about the allegations described by prosecutors, including the identities of the passengers on the plane to Bedminster and what country the classified map depicted.According to the AP, the indictment included accusations that, in 2021, Trump at his Bedminster club showed off a classified map related to a military operation and in another instance bragged about having held onto a Pentagon "plan of attack" that was prepared for him. The White House responded to Rep. Jamie Raskin’s letter saying that he’s "not credible," according to The Associated Press."It’s pathetic that Democrats with zero credibility like Jamie Raskin are still clinging to deranged Jack Smith and his lies in 2026," White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told the AP. "President Trump did nothing wrong, which is why he easily defeated the Biden DOJ’s unprecedented lawfare campaign against him and then won nearly 80 million votes in a landslide election victory."The AP reported that Trump was abandoned after his presidential election win in November 2024, with the Department of Justice referring legal opinions preventing the indictments of sitting presidents. A report on the probe prepared by Smith remains under seal at the order of U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump-appointed jurist who issued rulings favorable to him during the classified documents case.
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