Newly Disclosed Photograph Shows Documents Marked Classified at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
A newly disclosed picture shows documents with classified markings at former President Donald Trump’s resort in Florida.
The image, embedded below, shows six documents labeled “top secret” and several marked “secret.”
The photograph was captured on Aug. 8, when FBI agents executed a search warrant on Mar-a-Lago, according to government lawyers.
The lawyers included the picture in a brief filed on Aug. 30, which urged a judge not to grant Trump’s motion for a special master, an independent third party who would look over the seized documents and sift out those identified as potentially privileged.
Next to the documents, which were scattered on the floor, was a box with five framed pictures, including one of a framed Time magazine cover.
Agents took away 33 items of evidence, mostly boxes of documents, according to a previously released inventory list. Over 100 unique documents were marked classified, government lawyers said in the new filing.
“Certain of the documents had colored cover sheets indicating their classification status,” they said, referring to the image. “The classification levels ranged from CONFIDENTIAL to TOP SECRET information, and certain documents included additional sensitive compartments that signify very limited distribution.”
Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers and FBI agents have already conducted a preliminary review of all of the seized materials, according to the government.
“In some instances, even the FBI counterintelligence personnel and DOJ attorneys conducting the review required additional clearances before they were permitted to review certain documents,” the new filing states.
Trump has maintained that he declassified the documents in question before he left office, a claim supported by some former government officials.
“Terrible the way the FBI, during the Raid of Mar-a-Lago, threw documents haphazardly all over the floor (perhaps pretending it was me that did it!), and then started taking pictures of them for the
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