Donald Trump Under Investigation Under Espionage Act, With ‘Top Secret’ Documents Taken From His Florida Home | US News
According to court documents, the FBI recovered more than 20 boxes of items – some labeled top secret – during a search of Donald Trump’s Florida mansion.
Details from a now-sealed subpoena showing several items related to defense information.
The subpoena said the investigation involved an alleged violation of the Espionage Act.
A cover of photographs and a handwritten note were among the items seized, along with a potential presidential profile.
Of the 20 discarded boxes, there were 11 sets of classified documents.
According to Fox News, a set marked as “multiple classified documents/TS/SCI” deals with sensitive and top-secret information.
The FBI searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida earlier this weekwith the former president claiming his home was “raided” and “under siege” and agents breaking the safe.
The unsealed subpoena authorizes the removal of “all material documents and records constituting evidence, contraband, crime results, or other items illegally possessed”, including:
- Any physical document with the classification mark, together with any bins/boxes (including any other contents) containing such material, as well as any other bins/boxes stored in common or found with the aforementioned documents and crates/boxes
- Information, including communications of any kind, relating to the retrieval, storage or transmission of classified defense information or material
- Any Government and/or Presidential Profile created between January 20, 2017 and January 20, 2021
- Any evidence of known alteration, destruction or concealment of any Government and/or Presidential Records, or any documents bearing the classification mark
