A former Donald Trump employee told the FBI that the boxes filled with classified White House documents were moved within Mar-a-Lago after the government subpoena and at the 45th US President’s direction, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. The FBI also has surveillance footage showing a staffer moving boxes out of the storage room, the source told CNN.
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The testimony of the witness and the surveillance footage obtained by the Justice Department are evidence of possible obstruction of justice by Donald Trump. The 76-year-old can face a range of potential crimes like obstruction, destruction of government records and mishandling of classified information.
FBI agents in August searched Trump’s Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago, and seized thousands of documents. About 100 of them were marked as classified. The federal agency also subpoenaed the Trump Organization for surveillance video from the resort.
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The employee was working at the Palm Beach resort then. They cooperated with the Justice Department and have been interviewed multiple times by federal agents, the Post added, citing people familiar with the situation.
The witness initially denied handling sensitive documents but later admitted to moving boxes at Trump’s request, the report further reads.
The Justice Department or FBI are yet to respond to the report. A Trump spokesperson, however, has said that President Joe Biden’s administration has “weaponized law enforcement.”
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“Every other President has been given time and deference regarding the administration of documents, as the President has the ultimate authority to categorize records, and what materials should be classified,” Trump spokesperson Taylor Budowich told the Washington Post.
The Biden administration on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to steer clear of a legal fight over classified documents.
The high court is weighing an emergency appeal from Trump asking it to overturn a lower court ruling and permit an independent arbiter, or special master, to review the roughly 100 documents with classified markings.
