Even after an FBI search of his home, former U.S. President Donald Trump's team might not have returned all the classified documents taken from the White House at the end of his administration, U.S. prosecutors warned on Thursday, calling it a possible national security risk that requires investigation.
This information was revealed in a court filing by the Justice Department requesting U.S. While it looks into whether secret documents were forcibly removed from the White House and inappropriately held there, District Judge Aileen Cannon has granted it permission to keep analysing the roughly 100 classified materials that the FBI had collected at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.
Trump is being investigated for keeping government documents at his Florida club, where he lived after leaving office in January 2021, some of which were marked as highly confidential.
The 100 documents are a small portion of the more than 11,000 data and images that were found, the most of which, according to the government, Trump is permitted to study because they are not
According to the department's court filing, "this motion is restricted to the seized classified records because those portions of the order will cause the most immediate and substantial consequences to the government and the public."
Additionally, the prosecutors asked the judge to deny permission for a "special master," a neutral arbitrator, to examine the secret documents that had been taken from Trump's property.
In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump referred to the request as a financial waste.
On Thursday, the Justice Department expressed concern that there might be further secret documents missing from the Trump White House that investigators have not yet discovered. This information was revealed about a week after the Justice Department published a detailed list of the items that had been taken from Trump's home, which revealed that the FBI had discovered 48 empty folders marked as classified and another 42 that had instructions to return them to a staff secretary or military aide.
