8/23/2022

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/DOJ/FBI/INTELLIGENCE: “President Donald J. Trump took more than 700 pages of classified documents, including some related to the nation’s most covert intelligence operations, to his private club and residence in Florida when he left the White House in January 2021, according to a letter that the National Archives sent to his lawyers this year.

The letter … described the state of alarm in the Justice Department as officials there began to realize how serious the documents were…

[T]he letter could further implicate Mr. Trump in a potential crime. It confirmed, for instance, that the former president had kept at Mar-a-Lago documents related to Special Access Programs, some of the nation’s most closely held secrets, before the F.B.I. searched the property.”

-Alan Feuer, “Trump Kept More Than 700 Pages of Classified Documents, Letter From National Archives Says,” nytimes.com, August 23, 2022