(Fwrd Axis) — The FBI found documents classified intelligence regarding Iran and China at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, according to reports.
The Washington Post was the first to report the intelligence on Iran and China was found during the FBI’s search of his Florida home back in August when they took 13,000 documents from the property, more than 100 of them classified.
A Justice Department spokesperson declined to comment on the story.
According to court documents, federal agents took 11 classified documents, including some labeled secret and top secret from Mar-a-Lago. The documents included a handwritten note, information about the “President of France,” an executive grant of clemency for Trump ally Roger Stone and binders of photos.
Papers labeled “SCI” documents, which stands for highly classified “sensitive compartmented information”, were also removed from the home.
Court documents show investigators were searching for “any physical documents with classification markings” and “any government and/or Presidential Records” from Trump’s time in office as well as any evidence of the “knowing alteration, destruction or concealment of any government and/or Presidential records, or of any documents with any classification markings.”
Trump has long denied any wrongdoing in having the documents at Mar-a-Lago, and has said he declassified “just by thinking about it”. After the Post published the story, the former president lashed out on his social media website Truth Social.
“The FBI and the Department of ‘Justice’ … are now leaking nonstop on the Document Hoax to the Fake News,” he wrote.
