FBI agents recovered classified materials during a raid on Mar-a-Lago Monday, court documents say. Sources told NBC News that in the last days of Trump’s presidency aides rushed to pack up documents. One source said Trump didn’t seriously start preparing to exit the White House until after January 6. Sign up for our newsletter to receive our top stories based on your reading preferences — delivered daily to your inbox. Email address SIGN UP By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Between the January 6 Capitol attack, challenges to the 2020 election, and his impending second impeachment, President Donald Trump had some chaotic final days in office. Amid the chaos and the realization that every election challenge was failing, Trump began instructing aides to pack up documents he planned to take with him to Mar-a-Lago, according to an NBC News report published Saturday. Two sources with knowledge of the situation told the outlet Trump’s aides were hurriedly stuffing documents and other materials into banker boxes that were then shipped to Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Palm Beach club and residence. One source said Trump only seriously began making plans to leave the White House after January 6, his final two weeks in office, after months of baselessly claiming he had won the election. “It was a chaotic exit,” the source told NBC. “Everyone piled everything — staff, the White House movers — into the moving trucks. (…) Mar-a-Lago was raided on Monday by FBI agents who seized 11 boxes of classified materials, some labeled “top secret,” according to court records unsealed Friday. The raid was part of the Justice Department’s investigation into possible violations of three laws related to handling government records, including part of the Espionage Act.
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siehe auch: Moscow Already ‘Studying’ Top-Secret Records From Trump Raid: Russian Media. Hosts on Russia’s state-owned Russia-1 television channel said that officials in Moscow have already been “studying” top secret and other classified documents the FBI sought through a search warrant of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort home. The FBI, with the approval of Attorney General Merrick Garland, carried out a raid of Trump’s Florida residence looking for top secret and sensitive compartmentalized information, as well as other classified documents, on Monday. The Washington Post reported on Thursday that records related to nuclear weapons were sought by the federal agents, but Trump described that reporting as a “hoax.” Russia-1 reported on the raid in a segment shared to Twitter late Friday evening by Julia Davis, a columnist for The Daily Beast and the creator of the Russian Media Monitor. During the segment, state-run television host Evgeny Popov mentioned the reporting about nuclear weapons.