Files classified as empty were found

Files classified as empty were found

Suspicions and questions about top-secret government documents that former US President Donald Trump took home at the end of his term are mounting.

A detailed inventory of materials seized at the Mar-a-Lago (Florida) residence, published on Friday, September 2, shows that FBI agents remarkably found several dozen blank files marked “Confidential”. Trump’s office, which could indicate that sensitive documents may have been lost or destroyed.

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This list compiled by the Department of Justice reveals the contents of 33 boxes and boxes recovered from Mr. Trump’s office and a storage room in Mar-a-Lago during the August 8 search. Although the inventory does not describe the contents of the documents, it does show how confidential information – including highly classified documents – is hidden in boxes and mixed with newspapers, magazines, clothing and other personal items.

The document also shows that Mr. Trump has kept more than 11,000 classified and unclassified documents related to the country. He tells him he has the right to keep them, but they are legally returning to the National Archives. Among the texts seized during the police operation were eighteen documents classified as top secret, fifty-four secret, and thirty-one classified.

“Maybe a good clue”

Bill Barr, the attorney general for nearly two years during Mr Trump’s tenure, estimated on Friday that the FBI’s astonishing search of the former US president’s home appeared to be justified and that authorities appeared to have “Good” Evidence of attempted obstruction on his part. Mr. Trump is under investigation for a possible violation of the Espionage Act.

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“For them to get to where we are today, they probably have good clues”Barr, who has gone from supportive of the former president to a critic, said on Fox News. “If they had clear evidence that the president moved and hid things in his office and told people to withhold information from the government, they might be inclined to take this case” He added in court.

“I think the driving force behind it all, right from the start, was the pile of classified information that was in Mar-a-Lago”did he say. ‘People say it’s unprecedented’Complete this search. “Well, it is also unprecedented for a chief to take all this classified information and put it in a country club.”stinging added.

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But if he calls” Stupid ” And the’“inexplicable” Trump’s conduct in relation to the documents, Mr. Barr said, however, is that he hopes the department will not condemn him.” Considering that he is a former president and given the state of the nation.”

Trump responded, in a message on his social network, Truth Social. “Former Attorney General Bill Barr was fired long before I left the White House”wrote the former Republican president.

Le Monde with the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse

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