FBI found empty classified folders at Mar-a-Lago
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New details from the Justice Department about the startling number of classified documents Donald Trump held at Mar-a-Lago have been revealed to be even worse than we thought. TMZ reported when the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, agents found many empty folders labeled as “classified.” A more detailed list of the FBI raid was published on September 2, showing Americans (and allies worldwide) the gravity of the national security crisis. Hugo Lowell, the Congressional reporter for The Guardian, tweeted: “Unsealed detailed inventory of what FBI seized from Trump’s office includes: 7 TOP SECRET marked docs, 43 Empty CLASSIFIED folders, 28 Empty Return to Staff Sec/Mil. Aid folders, 26 Magazines/Press Articles 1/2020-11/2020, and 99 Magazines/Press Articles 1/2017-10/2018.”
The Justice Department’s updated list of what was found doesn’t indicate what happened to the documents inside the empty classified folders, according to The Washington Post. Politico reporter Kyle Cheney also shared an important point on Twitter about the documents that were marked “return to the staff secretary.” Cheney tweeted: “On the dozens of folders marked ‘return to staff secretary’ . . . Derek Lyons vacated the “staff secretary” position on Dec. 18, 2021.” The former president’s spokesperson was on Twitter after the Justice Department’s detailed report was released. Taylor Budowich tweeted: “The new ‘detailed’ inventory list only further proves that this unprecedented and unnecessary raid of President Trump’s home was not some surgical, confined search and retrieval that the Biden administration claims, it was a SMASH AND GRAB.”
What’s Missing From Mar-A-Lago Is Even More Concerning Than What Was Found
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But new information from the Justice Department revealed what’s missing from Mar-a-Lago is even more concerning than what was found by the FBI.
FBI found empty classified folders at Mar-a-Lago
Wangkun Jia/Shutterstock
New details from the Justice Department about the startling number of classified documents Donald Trump held at Mar-a-Lago have been revealed to be even worse than we thought. TMZ reported when the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, agents found many empty folders labeled as “classified.” A more detailed list of the FBI raid was published on September 2, showing Americans (and allies worldwide) the gravity of the national security crisis. Hugo Lowell, the Congressional reporter for The Guardian, tweeted: “Unsealed detailed inventory of what FBI seized from Trump’s office includes: 7 TOP SECRET marked docs, 43 Empty CLASSIFIED folders, 28 Empty Return to Staff Sec/Mil. Aid folders, 26 Magazines/Press Articles 1/2020-11/2020, and 99 Magazines/Press Articles 1/2017-10/2018.”
The Justice Department’s updated list of what was found doesn’t indicate what happened to the documents inside the empty classified folders, according to The Washington Post. Politico reporter Kyle Cheney also shared an important point on Twitter about the documents that were marked “return to the staff secretary.” Cheney tweeted: “On the dozens of folders marked ‘return to staff secretary’ . . . Derek Lyons vacated the “staff secretary” position on Dec. 18, 2021.” The former president’s spokesperson was on Twitter after the Justice Department’s detailed report was released. Taylor Budowich tweeted: “The new ‘detailed’ inventory list only further proves that this unprecedented and unnecessary raid of President Trump’s home was not some surgical, confined search and retrieval that the Biden administration claims, it was a SMASH AND GRAB.”
The Justice Department’s updated list of what was found doesn’t indicate what happened to the documents inside the empty classified folders, according to The Washington Post. Politico reporter Kyle Cheney also shared an important point on Twitter about the documents that were marked “return to the staff secretary.” Cheney tweeted: “On the dozens of folders marked ‘return to staff secretary’ . . . Derek Lyons vacated the “staff secretary” position on Dec. 18, 2021.”
The former president’s spokesperson was on Twitter after the Justice Department’s detailed report was released. Taylor Budowich tweeted: “The new ‘detailed’ inventory list only further proves that this unprecedented and unnecessary raid of President Trump’s home was not some surgical, confined search and retrieval that the Biden administration claims, it was a SMASH AND GRAB.”
