
Even More Classified Documents Found After Mar-A-Lago Raid, In Trump’s Bedroom
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Trump’s attorneys found more classified files months after the FBI searched the Florida club, according to newly unsealed documents.
Former President Donald Trump’s attorneys found more classified documents in his bedroom at Mar-a-Lago, months after the FBI conducted a raid at the Florida club, according to newly unsealed court documents.
The findings were cited in an 87-page opinion by U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell last year, who oversaw a Washington D.C. grand jury in the matter. The FBI raided Trump’s Florida residence in August 2022, after the National Archives had attempted for months to see boxes of classified material returned. Trump’s behavior is the subject of a 40-count federal indictment.
Howell cited the finding of additional classified documents in the opinion, where she ruled special counsel Jack Smith’s team could question Trump attorney Evan Corcoran. Such topics would usually be shielded by attorney-client privilege, Politico notes, but the judge said prosecutors had demonstrated Trump instructed his lawyer to tell the government all of the classified material in his possession had been returned.
“A representation,” Howell wrote, “that the former president … knew to be wrong.”
“More classified-marked documents still were uncovered in November 2022 in a leased storage unit, in December 2022 in the Office at Mar-a-Lago, and apparently sometime thereafter in the former president’s own bedroom at Mar-a-Lago,” she wrote.