United States: the great bazaar of documents seized from Donald Trump
The list of documents seized by the FBI during the search of the residence of Donald Trump.
AP - Jon Elswick
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Following the US federal police search of Donald Trump's home in August, we know a little more since a judge ordered the publication of a more precise list of what was seized by the FBI .
There was a bit of everything...
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Donald Trump may defend law and order, he is apparently not a relentless tidying up and rigorous classification, says our correspondent in Washington,
Guillaume Naudin.
In the inventory published by the judge who has not yet decided whether she will appoint a special supervisor for the analysis of the documents seized, it seems that there was a bit of everything everywhere.
Files labeled empty classified which one wonders if they ever had content and what it has potentially become.
Storage boxes in which one finds pell-mell
secret or even top secret documents,
with magazines or newspaper clippings, unclassified government documents stored with items to be returned to federal services.
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Documents stamped Top Secret on the floor of Donald Trump's residence in Florida.
via REUTERS - US Department of Justice
Evidence of attempted obstruction
In one of the boxes, there are both documents stamped confidential or secret with what is presented as gifts or clothes.
Everything was seized both in the Mar-a-Lago storage room and in
Donald Trump
's office , where he received many visitors.
The published list is 11 pages.
She suggests that the storage of the documents taken by Donald Trump was clearly botched and that the rules for protecting national security secrets were not followed.
Donald Trump's former justice minister, Bill Barr, said on Friday that the FBI's spectacular search of the former US president's home seemed justified, and that the authorities appeared to have "
good
" evidence of an attempt .
obstruction on his part.
"
If they clearly have the president moving things around, hiding things in his office and telling people to hide things from the government, they may be inclined to take this matter
" to court, he added.
While he called
Mr. Trump's behavior regarding the documents "
insane
" and "
inexplicable ", Mr. Barr said he hoped the department would not charge him, "
given that it is 'a former president and in view of the state of the nation
'.
Aerial view of the Mar-a-Lago residence, owned by Donald Trump, in Palm Beach, Florida, August 15, 2022. REUTERS - MARCO BELLO
(and with
AFP
)
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