Several Republicans supported him — including his former vice president Mike Pence, who recently distanced himself from Trump. Republican Representative Turner said the FBI’s list of seized documents says nothing about the nature of the documents themselves.
“We got this list from the FBI, but we’re not sure if it’s classified material or not,” Turner told CNN. The receipt shows that the material has been marked as secret. But that doesn’t mean it’s really secret at the moment. He gave no evidence for this. When asked if he was taking classified material home with him, he said, “No.”
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According to the FBI list, agents last Monday at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property found, among other things, sets of documents classified as “Top Secret/SCI”, which are top secret and can only be visas in special government institutions. Four of the confiscated sets of documents were classified as “Top Secret”, three more as “Secret” and the remaining three as “Confidential”.
The search warrant lists three criminal offenses as a possible basis for any seizure – including collecting, transmitting or losing defense information. This falls under the US Espionage Act.