After a public affidavit that Donald Trump obstructed justice and hoarded sensitive White House documents led federal law enforcement to raid his Mar-a-Lago estate, the former president claimed the raid was one of the “worst attacks on democracy” in the American history.
“Btw, go somewhere, in a very bad way, it’s never seen!” he wrote on his Truth Social account on Aug. 27.
In another post, he wrote: “Invasion of privacy!!!”
Federal officials recovered 184 classified documents earlier this year that were returned to the National Archives after officials found the documents marked “top secret” and Alerted to the U.S. Department of Justice after being classified.
Justice Department officials launched an investigation arguing that the documents, if made public, could jeopardize “secret human resources” or overseas intelligence gathering. A 38-page affidavit identified “there may be reason to believe evidence of obstruction will be found in his Florida compound”.
Officials also said that without major revisions, “affidavits could be used to identify many, if not all, of these witnesses”.
“If witnesses are identified, they may be subject to harm, including retaliation, intimidation or harassment, and may even pose a threat to their physical safety,” the document said. “As the court has noted, ‘in this case, these concerns Not hypothetical’.”
The former president – whose baseless and persistent narrative that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, fueled violence in the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to overturn the election result – in the days following the raid and subsequent public scrutiny, He lashed out on the social media platform, while U.S. intelligence officials and lawmakers have announced their assessments of national security risks related to Trump’s handling of documents.
Meanwhile, Mr. Trump’s Truth Social website — launched as a Twitter clone six months ago after he was banned from the platform — has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by the company planning to buy Trump Media. — Facing a troubling future without a guaranteed source of income. & Technology Group Public.
The company warned that its business could be hurt if the former president “becomes less popular or has further controversies that damage his credibility.”
A letter from the National Archives to Trump’s lawyers in May said the former president kept more than 700 pages of classified documents. The Justice Department has reportedly recovered more than 300 classified documents since Trump left the White House in January.
Investigators visited Mar-a-Lago in June, and the FBI interviewed staff and others later that month.
On August 5, a federal judge granted a Justice Department search warrant that “reasonably believed to contain classified [national defense informatio] Or presidential records subject to records retention requirements are currently kept on the premises. “
Searched on August 8th.
A “preliminary review” of 15 file boxes collected earlier this year revealed that 184 documents contained confidential markings, “67 of which were marked confidential and 92 were marked as confidential,” according to an affidavit of possible reasons for the search. Confidential, 25 documents were marked as Top Secret.”
