In a Tuesday night court filing, the Justice Department has formally accused Donald Trump of intentionally “concealing” top secret documents in a potential effort to obstruct their federal probe into classified material at his Mar-a-Lago home. The filings showed a photograph of the documents labeled “TOP SECRET” with bright yellow borders and redacted pages laid out on a carpet at the residence.
Prosecutors said that Trump representatives told them in June that all White House records at Mar-a-Lago were contained in a storage room at his resort. But during their Aug. 8 search, FBI agents found classified documents stashed in drawers in Trump’s home office.
Justice Department investigators “developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the Storage Room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government’s investigation,” the filing states.
The Tuesday filing provides the most detailed timeline of the interactions between Trumps’ team and Justice Department officials ahead of the FBI search.
The DOJ filed the revealing court papers in response to Trump’s legal team’s request for a special master to review the documents seized by the government from Mar-a-Lago.
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