Former US President Donald Trump considered yesterday, Wednesday, that the US judiciary searched his home for secret documents on August 8 as "unjustified", in response to a procedural text published by the US Department of Justice that includes the justifications for the search process.

Trump's comments come before a court session scheduled for Thursday to study a request made by the former president last week, that an independent expert see documents seized by the FBI.

This procedural document explains the reasons why the FBI searched Trump's residence to retrieve "top secret" documents he kept after he left the White House, despite repeated requests to return them.

"The investigation specifically seeks to determine whether Trump or his relatives have engaged in criminally indictable behavior by seeking to prevent the FBI from recovering these documents," the Justice Department said.

She added that prior to the operation, the FBI had discovered "evidence from many sources" showing that "secret documents" were still at Trump's Florida residence.

She added that the police "also obtained evidence that government documents were likely concealed or transferred... and that actions may have taken place to obstruct their investigation as well."

The department recounted how FBI agents first went to Mar-a-Lago to retrieve a number of files, and a member of Trump's team made a "sworn statement" confirming it was the last person left at home.

But during the raid early last month, the Federal Police found about 30 boxes containing highly sensitive documents, classified between "secret and top secret", to the extent that lawyers for the FBI and the Department of Justice requested "permits" to be able to view them.

lying on the ground

Two days ago, the US Department of Justice published a picture showing secret documents found at the residence of former President Donald Trump in Florida, southeast of the United States, and the ministry said that it had evidence of concealing secret documents from the FBI, prompting the office to conduct an unprecedented search of Trump's home. .

The department said it had submitted the photo, which shows the documents lying on the ground, to a federal court in Florida, as evidence that former President Trump committed wrongdoing by keeping these secret documents in an unsafe and indiscriminate location.

Secret documents recovered by FBI agents from Trump's residence in Florida on August 8 (Reuters)

One of the documents also shows that it is dated May 9, 2018, the day after Trump announced the withdrawal of the United States from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.

"It's awful how during the search the FBI randomly dumped documents on the ground, probably to make it look like I did," Trump wrote on his social network, Truth Social, on Wednesday, confirming that he had previously declassified them.

The Republican, who is considering running in the 2024 presidential election, has for months denounced a political "campaign of persecution" against him.

Threats to the FBI

Last Tuesday, US President Joe Biden denounced threats received by FBI agents after they searched the home of former President Donald Trump, in a precedent in the history of former American presidents.

"It is disgusting to see the new attacks on the FBI and the threat to the lives of law enforcement and their families just because they are law enforcement and doing their job," Biden said in a speech in Pennsylvania.

The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security had warned of increased threats following the raid on Trump's home.