The US National Archives has recovered more than 100 classified documents totaling more than 700 pages from an initial batch of 15 boxes discovered in Mar-a-Lago earlier this year, according to a new public release from the government with Trump’s legal team.
The figures show a large volume of classified government documents recovered months ago from former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence, long before the FBI returned with a search warrant on Aug. 8 and seized eleven sets of classified records.
The memo also reveals an FBI investigation into potentially illegal record keeping as well as obstruction of justice.
The numbers on the documents were contained in a letter dated May 10, in which Acting U.S. Archives Debra Stedelwall told Trump’s attorney Evan Corcoran that the Biden administration would not grant the former president’s demands for executive privilege over the documents.
According to the letter, a few weeks earlier, Corcoran had requested additional time to study the materials in the boxes before the archives handed them over to the FBI so that it could determine whether some of them fell under executive privilege and were thus exempt from disclosure. .
The letter was published Tuesday on the website of the National Archives and Records Administration.
It was published earlier Monday night on a website launched by John Solomon, who was appointed by Trump last June as one of his appointees to the archives, a Trump ally and a conservative journalist.
