Merged Mar-a-Largo raided by FBI?

[Loren Pechtel]

He's the President. Now he's allowed to see them.

In the proper locations, where security is assured.

Mar-A-Lago is not such a place.

Ruth

Returned to the White House, not returned to Mar-A-Lago. Now, he might have stolen them again but that's a separate issue.

 

[Ruth Harris]

He's the President. Now he's allowed to see them.

In the proper locations, where security is assured.

Mar-A-Lago is not such a place.

Ruth

Returned to the White House, not returned to Mar-A-Lago. Now, he might have stolen them again but that's a separate issue.

Not a separate issue at all. Classified documents are never "returned" to anyone; they are viewed by authorized people in secure locations. They do not belong to any individual, but to the government. According to the article, this is what Trump said:

"The Department of Justice has just returned the boxes that Deranged Jack Smith made such a big deal about. They are being brought down to Florida and will someday be part of the Trump Presidential Library," Trump wrote.

It is entirely possible that what was "returned" to him was not classified materials, but documents relating to evidentiary matters for the trial that will not happen. Like the empty classified document folders or other items found in proximity to actual classified materials. Things like that would be necessary for trial purposes but of no governmental value otherwise.

Ruth

 

[ZiprHead]

Final report into Trump's handling of classified documents should never be released: DOJ

Last month, the White House said the FBI returned the boxes of materials that were seized from Mar-a-Lago to President Donald Trump.

abcnews.go.com

Hours after President Donald Trump publicly praised the judge who oversaw his classified documents case, lawyers with the Department of Justice urged the U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to ensure the final report into Trump's alleged conduct never becomes public.

DOJ lawyers and attorneys representing Trump's former co-defendants argued that Judge Cannon should "under no circumstances" release the volume of Special Counsel Jack Smith's final report about the president's alleged retention of classified documents, alleging the report would violate the due process rights of Trump's top White House aide Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira.

Trump pleaded not guilty in June 2023 to 37 criminal counts related to his handling of classified materials, after prosecutors said he repeatedly refused to return hundreds of documents containing classified information. Trump, along with Nauta and De Oliveira, also pleaded not guilty in a superseding indictment to allegedly attempting to delete surveillance footage at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.