“Oh wonderful! It was just learned that the FBI, in its now famous Mar-a-Lago raid, took boxes of privileged “attorney-client” material, as well as “executive” privileged material, which they knowingly should not have taken,” said the Trump. he said on his website Truth Social. “With a copy of this TRUTH, I respectfully request that these documents be immediately returned to the location from which they were obtained. Thank you!” the former president said in the post. An itemized list of assets seized from Mar-a-Lago.Jim Bourg/REUTERS11 boxes of classified intelligence documents marked at various levels of security, including top secret, confidential and “TS/SCI,” were taken from the Mar-a- Lake. Steve Helber/AP The notice filed by the DOJ informing a district court judge that former President Donald Trump’s lawyers did not object to the unsealing of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant.Jon Elswick/AP Fox News reported, citing sources close to the investigation, that the Trump team was told that at least five boxes — labeled A-14, A-26, A-43, A-13, A-33 and a set of documents — were taken under the authority of the search warrant contained information covered by attorney-client or executive privilege. The documents were among a cache of materials taken from Trump’s palatial home in Palm Beach last Monday, including binders of photographs, a handwritten note, a leather-bound document box, an “executive grant of clemency” to longtime aide Roger Stone, according to property. list of items released Friday by the FBI. Agents also found 11 boxes of classified intelligence documents marked at various levels of security, including top secret, confidential and “TS/SCI,” referring to top secret/sensitive department information, a special category meant to protect the most sensitive secrets of the country. Trump disputed that the documents were classified, claiming he had declassified them. A spokesman for the 45th president, John Solomon, read a statement on Fox News Friday night, claiming that Trump had a “standing order” during his time in the White House that “documents removed from the Oval Office and transferred in the residence they were considered to be declassified the moment he removed them.’ But a member of Trump’s legal team signed a written statement in June during a visit by Justice Department officials claiming that all classified material at Mar-a-Lago had been returned to the government, the New York Times reported Saturday. , The warrant says federal agents were investigating possible violations of federal law, including the Espionage Act. The three statutes prohibit the collection, transmission or loss of defense information, the concealment, removal or mutilation of documents or their destruction, the exchange of falsifying records in federal investigations. And while presidents have a lot of latitude to declassify documents while in office, that power ends once they leave office. With Post cables
