Trump Says FBI ‘Threw Documents Haphazardly All Over the Floor’ During Mar-a-Lago Raid

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued a response to a new court filing from the Department of Justice (DOJ) that appeared to show allegedly classified materials scattered on the floor during the FBI Mar-a-Lago raid early in August.

The image appears to show six documents labeled “top secret” and several that were labeled “secret,” which was included at the bottom of a legal brief filed late Tuesday that argued against the appointment of a special master to review the materials first. Federal authorities say those materials were classified, but Trump has repeatedly said he declassified them while in office.

“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!),” Trump wrote Wednesday on Truth Social, “and then started taking pictures of them for the public to see.”

“Thought they wanted them kept Secret?” he asked. “Lucky I Declassified!”

Around the same time, Trump again questioned anonymously sourced reporting from the Washington Post and other legacy media earlier this month. Those outlets claimed that nuclear secrets may have been recovered during the FBI raid on his Florida home, although the DOJ did not mention that in the heavily redacted affidavit and also has not publicly commented on those allegations.

“Whatever happened to NUCLEAR, a word that was leaked early on by the FBI/DOJ to the Fake News Media!” Trump wrote, suggesting that officials inside the federal government fabricated the claim and passed it on to mainstream media outlets.

New Filing

About 100 unique documents that were allegedly marked classified were taken during the search, government lawyers wrote Tuesday.

Supporters of former U.S. President Donald Trump in West Palm Beach, Fla. drive around the Paul G. Rogers Federal Building & Courthouse as the court holds a

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