A proof of ownership unsealed in court shows FBI agents took 11 sets of classified files from the estate during a search Monday. A proof of ownership is a document prepared by federal agents to identify what was taken during an investigation. The seized files include some marked secret and top secret. Court records did not provide specific details about the documents or the information they may contain. In a statement on Friday, Trump claimed the documents seized by agents at his Florida club on the estate were “all declassified” and said he would have turned the documents over to the Justice Department if asked. While sitting presidents have the power to declassify information, that power ends once they leave office, and it was unclear if the documents in question had ever been declassified. Trump also kept the documents despite multiple requests from agencies, including the National Archives, to turn over the presidential records under federal law. WATCHES | Search related to nuclear weapons documents, US media reports:

US media are reporting that federal agents may have been looking for documents related to nuclear weapons when they searched Donald Trump’s home. U.S. Magistrate Bruce Reinhart, the same judge who signed the search warrant, unsealed the warrant and proof of ownership on Friday at the request of the Justice Department after Attorney General Merrick Garland said there was a “substantial public interest in this matter” and Trump advocated “immediate” release of the warrant. The Justice Department told the judge on Friday afternoon that Trump’s lawyers had no objection to the motion to make it public. In messages posted on the Truth Social platform, Trump wrote: “Not only will I not object to the release of the documents … I am going one step further by ENCOURAGING the immediate release of these documents.”