WASHINGTON: FBI recovered more than 11,000 government documents and photographs during its August 8 search at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, as well as 48 empty folders labeled as “classified,” according to court records that were unsealed. Unsealing by US District Judge Aileen Cannon in West Palm Beach came one day after she heard oral arguments by Trump’s attorneys and Justice Department’s top two counterintelligence prosecutors over whether she should appoint a special master to conduct a privilege review of seized materials at Trump’s request. One of records, released on Friday provides a little more detail about 33 boxes and other items FBI found inside Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, as part of its ongoing criminal investigation into whether he illegally retained national defense information and tried to obstruct probe. It shows that documents with classification markings were at times co-mingled with other items such as books, magazines and newspaper clippings.–Agencies

Published in The Daily National Courier, September, 05 2022

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