The search that the FBI carried out on August 8 at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida yielded some disturbing and strange results, beyond the confirmation that he had taken home a large amount of sensitive information that put endanger US spies.
Along with 18 "top secret", 53 "secret" and 31 "confidential" documents, agents found 90 empty folders marked as "classified" material or marked "Return to Secretary of Staff/Military Assistant".
The list was made public this Friday by court order, and it also shows that, among the 33 boxes of material that the former president removed from the White House - in clear defiance of the law - some contained top secret papers along with clothing, gifts , books, photos and magazines.
Although most of the documents were discovered in a storage room, hundreds of other writings and photographs were in Trump's office in his sprawling Florida residence and private club.
The Attorney General's Office and the Department of Justice, which was the one that published the inventory of documents, has clearly indicated the possible commission of a crime of obstruction of justice. Trump and two of his lawyers would have committed it by persistently hiding, since the former president's departure from the White House in January 2021, the existence of part of the material extracted from the presidential residence: precisely the 102 confidential, secret or of top secret, as well as the ninety empty folders of "confidential material", which appeared in the registry of August 8. The former president and part of his team could also be charged with separate crimes of destruction of official records and violation of the Espionage Law, according to the entry and registration report.
Lawyers Evan Corcoran and Christina Bobb, who represented Trump at a meeting with three FBI agents and a representative on June 3 at the Mar-a-Lago mansion, lied to these law enforcement officers when, while They were given an envelope with other sensitive papers that they had retained until then, they assured that there was no longer any classified document from the White House left there. The operation of August 8 exposed the Republican leader and his lawyers.
