FBI Agents Were Seeking Classified Records, Took Boxes of Documents From Trump Home: Lawyer

The FBI agents who raided former President Donald Trump’s Florida home were looking for certain records, according to a lawyer for Trump who was on the scene while agents were at the resort.

“They’re looking for presidential records, what they deemed to be presidential records, and anything that could potentially be classified,” attorney Christina Bobb told The Epoch Times on Aug. 9.

“We had been very cooperative with them before. And it’s unclear to me why they went to such drastic measures to do this. But they did. And as far as the probable cause goes, they wouldn’t give that to us,” she added.

In mid-January, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) arranged for the transport of 15 boxes from Mar-a-Lago that the archives said contained presidential records. Under the Presidential Records Act, the records should have been transferred in January 2021 as Trump left office, and some of the boxes contained classified information, the Archives said in a statement at the time.

NARA officials didn’t respond to an Aug. 9 inquiry by The Epoch Times.

About two dozen FBI agents arrived around 9 a.m. on Aug. 8 and remained at Mar-a-Lago, which is in West Palm Beach, for about 10 hours.

Agents initially resisted showing Bobb the warrant but ultimately did. However, they wouldn’t allow any representatives of the former president to oversee the search, she said. The justification for the search also remains under seal.

Trump’s legal team plans to ask the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to unseal the search warrant affidavit, which would outline why authorities asked for the warrant.

“We don’t know what the probable cause is,” Bobb said. “I don’t think there is a good cause to do such a drastic thing. But they did.”

The FBI has declined to comment. The Department of

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