Former US President Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
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The dispute over the government documents confiscated from the former US President never ends. Now more secret documents have been discovered – by a team that Trump himself had hired.
BAccording to media reports, at least two other secret documents emerged during a search of a storage facility used by former US President Donald Trump in the state of Florida. A team hired by Trump himself made the find, the Washington Post and the US broadcaster CNN reported, citing informants familiar with the matter. The documents, which were not described in detail, were handed over to the federal police FBI.
Trump’s team examined the storage room as part of a larger search of several Republican properties, it said. Trump had previously been asked to comment on whether he had given the FBI all documents classified as confidential, secret or top secret.
The background is the dispute over the handling of government documents that has been going on for months: On August 8th, the FBI searched Trump’s private estate Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach (Florida) and confiscated documents there with the comments “Secret” and “Top Secret”. from his tenure. Prior to that, the National Archives — which is responsible for storing presidential records — had been trying for months to get Trump’s papers. By storing the papers at his home, the 76-year-old could have been guilty. The investigation is also about the allegation of obstruction of justice.