After the raid on ex-US President Trump's residence, a list of the confiscated documents has now been made public. Among them are dozens of empty folders marked as classified information. It is unclear what happened to the content.
More details are coming to light about the Aug. 8 raid at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. Accordingly, the federal police FBI secured 48 empty folders that were marked as classified information. This emerges from newly released court filings reported by several US media outlets. The empty folders raise the question of whether all documents have already been found in their entirety or whether some are still missing.
In addition to the empty folders marked "classified information," according to an inventory, the FBI also found 40 other empty folders that said they contained sensitive documents that the user should "return to the Secretary of Staff/Military Advisor," the inventory said . Investigators also found seven documents marked "top secret" in Trump's office and eleven others in a storage room.
The list and an accompanying Justice Department court filing did not say whether investigators found the entire contents of the empty folders. However, it stated that the investigation into Trump's handling of the documents was an "active criminal investigation".
According to the inventory, the FBI found a total of 18 documents marked "top secret," 54 "secret," and 31 "confidential," along with 11,179 unclassified government documents or photos in Mar-a-Lago. The list had been declassified as part of a court battle over the appointment of an independent special agent to review the material.
Last week, Trump asked the court to appoint a special representative and to stop the authorities from reviewing the documents until then. The Department of Justice countered that Trump, as ex-president, was no longer entitled to the documents because they “do not belong to him” but are the property of the government. Since Trump's lawyers only submitted the application around two weeks after the search, a filter team set up by the authority has already finished its work.
