FBI agents who have searched the private quarters of former US President Donald Trump are said to be seeking sensitive documentation related to nuclear weapons. The information was given by sources close to the investigation to the Washington Post, which breaks the news this Friday.
Trump’s residence in Mar-a-Lago (Floria, USA) was searched on Monday and Tuesday, without the Department of Justice initially revealing the scope of the investigation. This Thursday, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that he will ask the courts to allow the search warrant to be made public.
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However, it is now known that Donald Trump did not return any confidential documents when he left the White House in 2020. According to the Post, these documents will be related to nuclear weapons and could jeopardize the national security of the American if “they fall into wrong hands”, as the newspaper writes. It would have been the sensitivity of the content that made the Department of Justice go ahead with the searches, in order to recover the documents.
“If this is true, it suggests that the material that was illegally at Mar-a-Lago may have been classified with the highest degree of confidentiality,” former Justice Department counterintelligence chief David Laufman told the Post. “If the FBI and the Justice Department believed there was top secret at Mar-a-Lago this would lead to a race to recover the material as quickly as possible.”
Donald Trump described the raids as an “instrumentalization” of Justice, carried out by the “Radical Left” because it does not exclude the possibility of re-candidacy for the presidency in 2024. The White House guarantees that this was not the case. aware of the investigation, but with only three months to go before the midterm elections for Congress, the issue promises to gain more relevance.
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Source: Observadora
