Trump Team Moved Evidence Before Feds Picked It Up

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Trump’s staff moved sensitive documents to Mar-a-Lago a day before federal agents came to retrieve them, The Washington Post reported. Investigators are suspicious of the timing of the move and believe it could point to an obstacle. The classified documents probe is said to be nearing completion and Trump’s lawyers think an indictment could come within weeks. Loading Something is loading.

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Two of former President Donald Trump’s staff moved sensitive documents to Mar-a-Lago a day before federal officials went to the property to retrieve them.

That’s according to The Washington Post, which previously reported that boxes of documents were moved from a storage room at Mar-a-Lago after the feds subpoenaed them in May. Officials at the National Archives and Justice Department have asked for the documents to be returned before they are subpoenaed. But investigators are said to be suspicious of the specific timing of the move and believe it could point to potential obstruction in the ongoing federal investigation into whether Trump mishandled national defense information.

The Post also reported that Trump and his advisers held a “dress rehearsal” to move sensitive documents before the feds subpoenaed the records. And a witness testified to prosecutors that he moved boxes of documents to Mar-a-Lago at the former president’s behest.

Trump’s attorney, meanwhile, signed a statement in June saying that all materials moved from the White House to Mar-a-Lago after Trump left office have been returned to the federal government. But the FBI executed a search warrant on Trump’s property two months later and recovered 11 more sets of records with classified markings.

The DOJ investigation into Trump’s handling of government documents led by special counsel Jack Smith has heated up over the past few months. The Wall Street Journal reported that investigators are nearly finished taking testimony and evidence and that Smith is nearing a final decision on whether to take the rare step of bringing federal criminal charges against the th -45 presidents.

In Trump’s camp, there are also concerns about a possible indictment, which could come within weeks. And on Tuesday, they sent a letter requesting a meeting with Attorney General Merrick Garland, a move some legal experts said was a sign of impending charges.

“Unlike President Biden, his son Hunter, and the Biden family, President Trump has not been treated fairly,” the letter said. “No President of the United States has ever, in the history of our country, been impeached without reason in such violent and unlawful manner.”

The Insider has reached out to Trump’s attorney for comment on The Post’s reporting.

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