Months after the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, more classified documents were discovered in Donald Trump's bedroom.
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Politico reported:
Throughout the opinion, Howell, then Chief Justice of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., expressed varying degrees of doubt about how four documents with classified markings could have been discovered in Trump's private quarters months after they were subpoenaed by prosecutors. explained. The FBI conducted its own thorough search of the property.
“It is noteworthy that there is no excuse as to how a former president could have missed classified documents found in his bedroom at Mar-a-Lago,” Howell, who was appointed by President Obama, wrote.
In a footnote, Howell also noted that another Trump adviser connected to the Save America PAC admitted that in 2021 he scanned the contents of boxes containing classified material and stored them on a personal laptop provided by the PAC.
Trump's office provided a box of four records to the FBI in January 2023, Howell noted.
Donald Trump likes to claim that the criminal case against him has a political basis, but if Judge Eileen Cannon hadn't postponed the trial for classified documents for political reasons, the former president might be on trial or in court now. He is on trial for the theft of confidential documents.
While there was a mountain of evidence against Trump in the Manhattan case, there was also a mountain of evidence against the defendant in the classified documents case.
The case that really shocked Trump and created his desperation to return to the White House is the classified documents incident.
Why would a former president with no security clearance hide classified documents in his bedroom? The question of why Trump had the documents is still unknown, and may remain so unless the Republican candidate is defeated in November.
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Jason is the editor-in-chief. He is also a member of the White House Correspondent and Congressional Correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science. His graduate studies focused on public policy, specializing in social reform movements.
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