Experts are voicing concern after a report published by The Washington Post on Friday revealed that classified documents Donald Trump kept at his Mar-a-Lago residence included top secret files about China and Iran, as well as highly sensitive information about US espionage.
The report suggests that the documents are by far some of the most sensitive that the FBI seized when it executed a search warrant at Trump’s residence back in August.
According to a source whom The Post interviewed, documents that the FBI recovered describe the nature of Iran’s missile program. Other documents focused on China.
Experts warned that disclosing certain information could create multiple risks, including endangering people aiding US intelligence efforts and compromising collection methods.
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The documents the FBI seized are said to have also included information on other countries’ military defenses, including nuclear capabilities.
Trump denied the report while attacking the National Archives as ‘corrupt’ and suggesting the FBI may have planted compromising documents at his Florida home.
“Who could ever trust corrupt, weaponized agencies, and that includes NARA, who disrespects our Constitution and Bill of Rights, to keep and safeguard any records, especially since they’ve lost millions and millions of pages of information from previous Presidents,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social media platform. “Also, who knows what NARA and the FBI plant into documents, or subtract from documents—we will never know, will we?”
The search at Mar-a-Lago came as the Department of Justice investigates the potential mishandling of classified information, obstruction, and destruction of government records by the former president.
Trump has vehemently denied any wrongdoing, claiming that presidents can declassify information ”even by thinking about it.”
