© Jim Bourg/REUTERSAn itemized list of property seized from Mar-a-Lago.
"Oh great! It has just been learned that the FBI, in its now famous raid of Mar-a-Lago, took boxes of privileged 'attorney-client' material, and also 'executive' privileged material, which they knowingly should not have taken," Trump said on his Truth Social site.
"By copy of this TRUTH, I respectfully request that these documents be immediately returned to the location from which they were taken. Thank you!," the former president said in the posting.
© Mark Humphrey/APThe FBI " took boxes of privileged 'attorney-client' material, and also 'executive' privileged material," former President Donald Trump claimed.
The documents were among a cache of materials taken from Trump's palatial Palm Beach home last Monday, including binders of photos, a handwritten note, a leatherbound box of documents, an "executive grant of clemency" for longtime aide Roger Stone, according to a property list of items released on Friday by the FBI.
Agents also found 11 boxes of information classified documents marked at varying levels of security, including top secret, confidential and "TS/SCI," which refers to top secret/sensitive compartmented information, a special category intended to protect the country's most delicate secrets.
Trump has disputed that the documents were classified, claiming that he had declassified them.
A representative for the 45th president, John Solomon, read a statement on Fox News Friday evening claiming that Trump had a "standing order" during his time in the White House that "documents removed from the Oval Office and taken to the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them."
But a member of Trump's legal team signed a written statement in June during a visit by Justice Department officials contending that all classified material at Mar-a-Lago had been returned to the government, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
The warrant says the federal agents were investigating potential violations of federal law, including the Espionage Act.
The three statutes ban the gathering, transmitting or losing of defense information, the concealment, removal or mutilation of documents, or the destruction, alternation of falsification of records in federal probes.
And while presidents have wide latitude to declassify documents while in office, that power ends once they leave office.
Reader Comments
Definition of trumped-up : fraudulently concocted : SPURIOU Strumped-up charges
Keep in mind, anything in the BFM is not to be trusted, yet everyday "we hear the narrative". Trump is a part of the narrative and contributes quite frequently to it.
With that in mind, does it not make perfect sense that he is a part of the whole narrative to begin with, the well orchestrated narrative that it is.
One of the definitions is to deceive - from Old French tromper "to deceive"
I just found that Trump's grandfather, Friedrich Trump married Christ (Elizabeth Christ)
The one thing I know for sure, He's had an effect on the system. Under him, the deep state didn't lose any power, they came back with a vengeance after he left office, in a round about way, all aided by him. Epstein died in prison and no one was held accountable. He was key to a lot off things, yet Trump did nothing. He might have said things, but he did nothing. He did some key things and a lot of not key things, if you get my drift.
Trump was tasked with examining Tesla's papers that were seized by the FBI. After a couple of days he reported there was nothing to see, but never returned several boxes of papers
The more this plays out the more I see the whole thing as controlled opposition.