By Steve Neavling
FBI agents may have missed a “hidden room” and closet when they searched for classified documents at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in 2022.
Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team has asked several witnesses about the rooms, ABC News reports, suggesting there are concerns that the FBI didn’t find all of the classified documents.
Sources said agents failed to search the closet because it was locked.
Turns out, the closet’s lock was changed while Trump’s attorney was searching a storage room in Mar-a-Lago’s basement for classified documents.
Jordan Strauss, a former federal prosecutor and former national security official in the Justice Department, said the FBI’s failure to search the closet was “a bit astonishing.”
“You’re searching a former president’s house. You [should] get it right the first time,” Strauss told ABC News.
The FBI also missed a “hidden room” connected to Trump’s bedroom, sources said.
A senior FBI official said agents searched areas that they believed contained government documents.
“Based on information gathered throughout the course of the investigation, areas were identified and searched pursuant to the search warrant,” the official said.
