According to the US Department of Justice, the FBI seized top-secret documents during a raid on a property owned by former US President Donald Trump. The ministry also said it suspected Trump of violating the Espionage Act.
According to the information, during a search of the Mar-a-Lago property in Florida this week, FBI officials seized eleven sets of documents marked as confidential. Among them were some documents marked with the highest secrecy class “Top Secret”.
Meanwhile, Trump agreed the publication of the search warrant. According to CNN, the US Department of Justice is also investigating suspected obstruction of justice and the criminal handling of government records. Apparently, among the documents were also those that, according to their classification level, contained sensitive information from the secret service. the Washington Post had previously reported that the investigators were also said to have been looking for documents on nuclear weapons.
US National Archives disagree with Trump
After the Trump raid in Florida, law enforcement officials were sometimes heavily criticized. Concerns about violent attacks also grew. “Violence against law enforcement agencies is not a solution – no matter what or who someone is angry about,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday in Omaha, Nebraska.
The US National Archives have since rejected Trump’s claims that his predecessor Barack Obama kept secret documents after his departure. According to the legal requirements, after Obama left office in 2017, the National Archives “assumed the exclusive legal and physical custody of the Obama presidential records,” the state institution said. About 30 million pages of non-classified documents were kept in the Chicago area. Classified information would be kept in Washington.