Trump had over 300 classified documents at home – news Urix – Foreign news and documentaries

The New York Times writes. After the FBI searched Trump’s residence in Florida on August 8, they found new classified documents, writes the American newspaper. Trump is said to have taken the documents from the White House with him after he stepped down as president of the United States in January 2021. In total, Trump has had over 300 documents with sensitive information at Mar-a-Lago, the newspaper writes. The U.S. National Archives preserves such documents for posterity and has asked to get them back from Trump. Donald Trump leaves Trump Tower in New York days after the FBI raided his Florida residence. Photo: DAVID DEE DELGADO / Reuters Have requested documents several times The authorities have received back classified documents from Trump’s time as president three times. In January of this year, almost a year after Trump left the White House, the authorities got back 15 boxes of documents from Trump. Then they discovered around 150 classified documents, writes the New York Times. In June, Trump’s staff provided some more documents to the Justice Department. Then the FBI searched Trump’s residence in Florida this August. Altogether, this amounts to over 300 classified documents, writes the newspaper. Exactly what kind of secret documents that the authorities have now found with Trump is not known. But in the past, the authorities have received back documents that have been written by security authorities such as the FBI, NSA and CIA, says a source to the newspaper. They must also have been about national security, says the source. Here in Mar-a-Lago, there have been many classified documents from Trump’s time as president, writes the New York Times. Photo: MARCO BELLO / Reuters Concerned about who has had access Mar-a-Lago in Florida is a large area with many employees. Paying members also have access to the club. Therefore, the authorities have requested surveillance videos of areas where documents have been stored. Donald Trump has requested an external review of the documents. This means that a person appointed by a judge must examine the classified documents that the authorities have received. Didn’t find letter from Kim Jong-un Employees in the US National Archives spent much of 2021 getting back documents from Donald Trump’s time as president, writes the New York Times. US law states that all official documents are public property and must be sent to the archives after the president has left office. After Donald Trump was finished as president, employees in the archive were aware that a letter that Trump had received from North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong-un was missing, the newspaper writes. A personal letter that Barack Obama left in the White House to Trump when he took over the presidency in 2017 is also among the documents that are said to have been lost. In phone calls where employees allegedly tried to persuade Trump to return boxes of documents to the authorities, Trump is said to have described the boxes as “mine”, according to the New York Times. Former US President Donald Trump met North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un in June 2019. When Trump left, letters from Kim Jong-un were missing, according to the New York Times. Photo: Susan Walsh/AP



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