By Steve Neavling
One of Donald Trump’s former long-time personal assistants told federal investigators that the former president repeatedly wrote to-do notes for her on the backs of classified documents, ABC News reports.
The aide, Molly Michael, said Trump wrote requests for tasks for her on the back of notecards, which she came to realize were White House documents “with visible classification markings.”
The documents were used to brief Trump about international matters and phone calls with foreign leaders.
The notecards were later discovered by FBI agents while searching Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida last year, but they were not taken by the bureau.
Michael, who was not president during the search, later retrieved the documents underneath a draw organizer and helped get them to the FBI.
Michael also said Trump warned her not to cooperate with the federal investigation, telling her, “You don’t know anything about the boxes.”
In the classified documents case, Trump pleaded not guilty in June to 37 criminal counts.
