Trump Mar-a-Lago search warrant, property receipt show agents found trove of classified docs
The property receipt of items recovered by the FBI after searching Trump's home shows agents recovered a trove of top secret and other classified documents.
WASHINGTON — The property receipt of items recovered by FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort shows that agents recovered a trove of top secret and other highly classified documents, according to court documents unsealed Friday by a federal judge in Florida.
Federal agents removed 11 sets of classified documents, including some that were labeled secret and top secret, according to documents obtained by NBC News shortly before the judge unsealed them. Among the items the FBI took was a handwritten note, information about the "President of France," an executive granting of clemency for Trump ally Roger Stone and binders of photos.
There were also papers described as "SCI" documents, which stands for highly classified "sensitive compartmented information."
One document attached to the search warrant said the agents were searching for “All physical documents and records constituting evidence, contraband, fruits of crime and other items illegally possessed in violation of” three laws, including a part of the Espionage Act that the Justice Department describes on its website as a "key national defense and national security" provision. The section cited in the search warrant "applies to activities such as gathering, transmitting to an unauthorized person, or losing, information pertaining to the national defense, and to conspiracies to commit such offenses."
The other two laws referenced by the document attached to the search warrant pertain to the improper removal of records and concealing or destroying records to impede investigations.
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