Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida. Inset: Donald Trump.Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty. Inset: Zach Gibson - Pool/Getty
New details are emerging about the classified documents allegedly found during the FBI’s August search ofDonald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.
The Washington Postreports that “a document describing a foreign government’s military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities,” was among the items seized.
The report also claims that some of the documents taken detail U.S. operations so top-secret that only the president, Cabinet-level or near-Cabinet-level officials could access them.
According to thePost, those documents “require special clearances on a need-to-know basis, not just top-secret clearance,” and would typically be kept in a “secure compartmented information facility, with a designated control officer to keep careful tabs on their location.”
Instead, thePostreports, they were being stored at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, more than a year after he left office. ThePost’ssources did not identify the foreign government outlined in the document or say specifically where at the resort it was found.
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In early June, FBI agents and a senior Justice Department national security supervisor reportedly visited the resort in regards to boxes of classified documents sitting in the property’s basement. A Trump attorney handed over 38 documents at the time, and officials followed up with instructions to install a stronger lock on the storage room door.
Trump reportedly assured officials that he had no more classified materials, but weeks later, “someone familiar with the stored papers told investigators there may be still more classified documents at the private club,” perThe Wall Street Journal.
In August, agents came back with the warrant, ultimately leaving with more than 100 documents.
source: people.com
