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President Donald Trump on Friday transported again to Florida with him bins of paperwork that the FBI had seized from Mar-a-Lago after executing a court-ordered search warrant in August 2022.
“The Division of Justice has simply returned the bins,” Trump mentioned in an announcement. “They’re being introduced all the way down to Florida and can sometime be a part of the Trump Presidential Library,” he mentioned, happening to assert that “justice lastly gained out” and that the investigation into his mishandling of presidential paperwork, together with extremely delicate categorised paperwork, was “merely an assault on a political opponent.”
The classified documents case in opposition to Trump, through which he pleaded not responsible, was dropped in November after he gained the 2024 election.
White Home Communications Director Steven Cheung, who mentioned the bins have been loaded onto Air Pressure One, informed reporters aboard the airplane that the bins include “private objects that belong to the president.”
Counselor to the president Alina Habba rebuffed questions on what the paperwork included, the place they are going to be saved or if the White Home is altering any storage protocol following the FBI search.
“These are President Trump’s issues. These are his objects, and so they wanted to be returned to him,” Habba mentioned. Requested about issues across the storage of delicate supplies at Mar-a-Lago, Habba mentioned, “They have been private objects. You’ll be able to’t simply go into any person’s dwelling on this nation. That is what differentiates us from a 3rd world nation.”
As CNN previously reported, Trump allegedly stored categorised paperwork at his Florida membership, together with in a public ballroom, rest room and a bed room.
