“The entire case is characterized as a potential risk to US national security that warrants further investigation.”
The former president’s team Donald Trump may not have delivered all of the classified documents that he took from the White House after the end of his presidency, even after the FBI search of his mansion, as US prosecutors warned yesterday, characterizing the whole case as a potential risk to national security of the US that needs further investigation.
The Justice Department has estimated that more classified documents may have been moved from the White House that authorities have not yet located, and yesterday asked U.S. District Judge Eileen Cannon to allow the evaluation of the roughly 100 classified documents seized by the F.B.I at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion as it investigates whether they were illegally removed from the White House and stored there.
The revelation comes a week after the Justice Department released a detailed list of items seized from Trump’s mansion. The FBI located 48 empty files that had been designated as confidential and another 42 which were marked to be returned to appropriate personnel or a specialist adviser to the US Armed Forces.
Legal experts expressed confusion as to why the files were empty, and it was unclear whether files were missing.
Trump is under investigation for his possession of government documents after he leaves the White House in January 2021. Some of the documents are classified as top secret.
The 100 documents represent a fraction of the more than 11,000 files and photographs seized. According to the administration, most of them are not classified so Trump could read them.
Prosecutors also asked the judge to block the appointment of an independent expert to review the classified material seized from Trump’s mansion.
For his part, Trump – who posts on his personal social media platform (Truth Social) – described the prosecutors’ request as a “waste of money”.
“If the court order is not revoked, both the government and the American public will suffer irreparable harm from the unjustified delay of the criminal investigation,” the prosecutors wrote.
“The decision to impose an injunction against the use of classified documents in a criminal investigation is likely to hinder efforts to identify the existence of additional classified documents that have not been properly stored. Such a possibility represents a potential risk to national security,” the prosecutors added.
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