Donald Trump’s lawyers find more classified documents in Florida, report says
- At least 2 such items were handed to the FBI after being discovered in a storage unit in West Palm Beach
- The search was conducted by an outside team brought in by the ex-president’s representatives to check his properties, including his golf club and Trump Tower
Lawyers for former US president Donald Trump found at least two items marked as classified during a recent search of a storage unit in West Palm Beach, Florida, and have provided them to the FBI, according to a published report Wednesday.
The Washington Post, citing anonymous sources, reported that the items were discovered by an outside team brought in by Trump’s representatives to search his other properties for any additional classified materials.
The nature of the classified materials was not immediately clear, but the storage unit in which they were found had been used to hold items from an office in northern Virginia used by Trump staff after he left office, the newspaper said.
The FBI recovered roughly 100 documents marked as classified during an August 8 search of Trump’s Palm Beach estate, Mar-a-Lago. That was on top of 37 documents bearing classification markings that Trump lawyers retrieved from the home during a June visit, as well as 15 boxes containing about 184 classified documents recovered in January by the National Archives and Records Administration.
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