A blistering new court filing says FBI agents searched Donald Trump’s Florida home on Aug. 8 because they had “multiple sources of evidence” indicating the former president’s team had not turned over all the classified information at Mar-a-Lago.
the most incriminating details in the government filing is a photograph, showing a number of files labeled “Top Secret” with bright red or yellow cover sheets, spread out over a carpet. Those files were found inside a container in Trump’s office, according to the court filing. A close examination of one of the cover sheets in the photo shows a marking for “HCS,” a government acronym for systems used to protect intelligence gathered from secret human sources.
The filing says Trump’s lawyer told Justice Department officials that all White House records that remained at Mar-a-Lago nearly 17 months after Trump left office were contained in the storage room, and that all boxes in the room had been searched. Trump made similar claims on social media after the raid, saying that his lawyers and representatives “were cooperating fully, and very good relationships had been established.” He added, “The government could have had whatever they wanted, if we had it.”The Justice Department filing also takes aim at Trump’s defenders who said that he had declassified the seized material while he was still president or suggested that it might somehow be covered by executive privilege.
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