Trump Lawyers Found More Classified Documents at Mar-a-Lago After FBI Raid, Unsealed Filings Reveal

Published on May 22, 2024

Additional documents marked as “classified” were discovered in former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home by his lawyers after the FBI completed its search of his southern Florida estate in 2022, newly unsealed court filings state. The documents marked as classified were recovered from President Trump’s bedroom at the estate approximately four months after the initial raid, according to a newly unsealed March 2023 opinion by U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell. Judge Howell oversaw the initial Washington grand jury proceedings into President Trump’s handling of classified materials after leaving office in 2021. The case is being investigated by special counsel Jack Smith, who has charged the former president with 40 felony charges related to allegedly mishandling classified information, including the unlawful retention of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice, and concealing a document in a federal investigation....