Police outside of Mar-a-Lago in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Aug. 9, 2022, the day after the FBI searched Donald Trump’s estate.
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A team hired by Donald Trump discovered more records marked classified outside of his Florida residence, which was raided in August by the FBI trying to find such documents, NBC News confirmed Wednesday.
The Washington Post first reported that a team hired by Trump found not less than two items marked classified in a West Palm Beach, Florida, storage unit connected to the previous president. Those items were immediately turned over to the FBI, in accordance with the Post.
The Recent York Times later published an identical report concerning the search and discovery.
“People near Mr. Trump had said earlier on Wednesday that no classified material had been found through the searches, a claim that was later proved incorrect,” the Times reported.
Two people aware of the matter later confirmed that two documents marked classified were present in a federal storage facility containing Trump’s possessions. The storage unit is run by the General Services Administration and Trump has never been inside it, one in every of the people told NBC.
The search of other Trump-linked properties outside of his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach was conducted after a federal judge urged the previous president’s lawyers to verify that they had fully complied with a grand jury subpoena requiring them to give up any material marked classified.
Along with the storage unit in Florida, Trump’s golf club in Bedminister, Recent Jersey, and Trump Tower in Recent York City, also were reportedly searched.