A former employee of Donald Trump told FBI agents that the former president ordered boxes of documents at Mar-a-Lago to be moved after a subpoena was issued for the records, The Washington Post reports.
Donald Trump essentially confessed to illegally possessing classified government documents at his Mar-a-Lago home during a weekend rally in Arizona.
Former President Trump is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in his legal battle over records seized at his Mar-a-Lago home, arguing that a court-appointed special master should review 100 documents with classified markings.
When FBI agents searched former President Trump’s Florida home, they seized nearly 200,000 pages of documents, his lawyers revealed in a court filing.
The Justice Department scored a victory in its investigation of classified material that former President Trump took home to Mar-a-Lago after he left office.
Former Assistant FBI Director Frank Figliuzzi said former President Trump is embracing the baseless QAnon conspiracy movement as he feels “increasingly cornered.”
Former President Trump was back to huffing and puffing about the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago, lashing out at agents for not taking off their shoes when they searched his bedroom.
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection obtained “thousands of exhibits” from Secret Service agents, the chairman of the panel said.
