The FBI is investigating former US President Donald Trump for possible espionage and obstruction of justice. That’s what we read in the search warrant for the search of Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s private residence, on Monday. The text of the arrest warrant was released today by the court and was picked up by the American media.
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The search warrant for the former president’s residence was signed by federal judge Bruce Reinhart on Friday, Aug. 5, but FBI agents waited until Monday to intervene, they said. Specifically, the judge authorized FBI agents to search the so-called “45 Office” and “any other room or area” in Mar-a-Lago that was available to former President Trump and his associates to hold boxes and documents. The mandate describes Trump’s residence as a roughly 58-bedroom, 33-bathroom mansion on a 17-acre estate.
The warrants were signed by former President Trump’s attorney Christina Bobb, who complained that she and other Trump attorneys were not allowed to attend the search, according to CNN.
According to the Wall Street Journal, citing the search inventory, the FBI found 11 sets of confidential documents at the Trump residence. Some of the documents were classified as “top secret” and should therefore have been kept in specific locations. This seems to confirm that the former President of the United States had brought to his private residence documents that required special procedures for use and preservation, such as those on nuclear weapons, the declassification of which can only be made following a specific formal procedure. Among the confiscated confidential documents were some on the “President of France”.
“The nuclear issue is a scam, like Russia, Russia was a scam, like the two impeachments were a scam and the Mueller investigation,” Trump said in a post published on Truth Social, the platform he named after his Twitter -Prohibition had created. “The same dirty people are involved: Why didn’t the FBI allow the inspection of the Mar a Lago areas when our lawyers are present?” adds the former president. “They made her wait outside in the heat, they wouldn’t even let her near them, they said absolutely no!” Trump wrote again, who then hinted the FBI’s ultimate goal was “compromising evidence” against him to sow . . . “It reminds me of the story of Christopher Steele’s dossier,” he quotes the dossier the former British intelligence agent produced during the 2016 election campaign on Trump-Russian relations, which is at the origin of the Russiagate investigation.
Trump then accused his predecessor Barack Obama of bringing 33 million pages of confidential documents to Chicago, but the national archives refute this. In a statement released today, the former US President said the documents requested by the FBI during the search of his Mar-a-Lago residence have all been declassified and authorities could reclaim them at any time. “The big problem, he added, is what they’re going to do with the 33 million pages of documents that President Obama brought to Chicago.”
But the National Archives and Administration Records (Nara) have denied Trump, claiming to have exclusive legal and physical custody of all Obama presidency documents, as required by law. About 30 million pages of unclassified documents are found in Chicago, while all classified documents are in Washington.