Months after the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago, more classified documents were found in Donald Trump’s bedroom.
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Throughout the opinion, Howell, then the chief judge of the federal district court in Washington, D.C., described with varying degrees of disbelief how, months after prosecutors subpoenaed four documents marked as confidential, Trump The documents were discovered at Pugh’s private residence and the FBI conducted a thorough search of the property.
“Notably, there is no excuse as to how the former president could have missed documents marked confidential that were found in his own bedroom at Mar-a-Lago,” Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote.
Howell also noted in a footnote that another Trump adviser associated with the Save America PAC admitted to scanning the contents of a box containing classified material in 2021 and storing it on a personal laptop provided by the PAC.
Howell noted that Trump’s office provided the FBI with a box containing four records in January 2023.
Donald Trump likes to claim that the criminal cases against him are politically based, but if Judge Erin Cannon hadn’t delayed the release of classified documents for political reasons, the former president might be on trial now, or face one soon .
There was a lot of evidence against Trump in the Manhattan case, but there was a lot of evidence against the defendants in the classified documents case.
The case that should really scare Trump and fuel his desperation to return to the White House is the classified documents case.
Why would a former president without a security clearance hide classified documents in his bedroom? The question of why Trump has the documents remains unknown and is likely to remain so unless the Republican candidate loses in November.
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Jason is the managing editor. He is also a member of the White House press corps and a congressional reporter for PoliticusUSA. Jason holds a BA in Political Science. His graduate work focuses on public policy, particularly social reform movements.
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