EA judge in the US state of Florida published a detailed list of the items confiscated by the FBI from ex-President Donald Trump on Friday. The overview shows that confidential, secret and top secret documents with personal belongings such as photos, newspaper articles and books were kept in several boxes. The list also includes several empty folders marked “secret” or “for return” among the items confiscated. The overview does not show whether documents were removed from these folders or whether the folders were empty from the start.
The US Department of Justice had previously submitted the detailed list to Judge Aileen Cannon in Florida, so far it has been classified. Cannon is dealing with the searches as part of a lawsuit filed by Trump and is to decide, for example, whether – as requested by Trump – a special representative should be appointed to review the actions against Trump. On Thursday it was said that Cannon would soon comment in writing on the question of a neutral examiner. For reasons of transparency, the judge had requested the detailed list from the Ministry of Justice and has now made it public.
In early August, the FBI searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion in Palm Beach, Florida. The FBI confiscated several sets of documents classified as top secret. Since Trump kept the records at his private estate after his term in office, he may have broken the law. This is now being investigated. Trump criticized the actions of the authorities as politically motivated. The Republican served as president from 2017 to 2021.
