Secret files 'likely concealed' at Trump home to block FBI probe, says US Justice Department

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It is the culmination of a year-and-a-half long effort to recover hundreds of classified documents that were improperly taken to Trump's Florida home.

Documents found at Trump's Mar-a-lago residence. Documents found at Trump's Mar-a-lago residence. TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS found at Donald Trump’s Florida home were “likely concealed” to obstruct an FBI probe into the former president’s potential mishandling of classified materials, the Department of Justice said in an explosive new court filing.

The Justice Department began investigating the matter after the 15 boxes were found to contain national defense information, including 184 documents marked as confidential, secret or top secret, a government affidavit showed. Strikingly, the filing included a photograph of color-coded documents spread out over a carpet, marked “SECRET” and “TOP SECRET.”

Trump, who is weighing another White House run in 2024, has accused the Justice Department under Democratic President Joe Biden of pursuing a vendetta against him, and said the judge “should never have allowed the break-in of my home.”

 

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