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Exclusive: During a raid on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, the FBI uncovered a box containing records subject to attorney and client privilege and, in some cases, executive privilege, according to sources familiar with the investigation. It was seized, a source familiar with the investigation told Fox News. Appointment of an independent special master to review the records.
A source familiar with the investigation told Fox News on Saturday that the former president’s team said the boxes labeled A-14, A-26, A-43, A-13, A-33, and a series of documents were finally released. The FBI property receipt page — which contained information covered by attorney-client privilege.
The FBI seized classified records, including those marked top secret, from Trump’s Palm Beach home in an unprecedented Monday morning raid. But the former president disputes the classification, saying the records have been declassified.
The warrants and property receipts from the FBI’s Monday raid were officially opened Friday afternoon.
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Attorney-client privilege refers to the legal privilege of keeping communications between an attorney and a client confidential.
A source told Fox News that some records could be subject to presidential privilege. It gives the President of the United States and other officials within the executive branch the power to withhold certain highly confidential forms of advice and consultation between the President and his senior advisers.
At this time, it’s unclear whether the records include correspondence between the former president and his personal attorney, a White House attorney during the Trump administration, or a combination.
Sources told Fox News that, with attorney-client privilege, Trump’s team asked the Justice Department for their position on whether they would support a third-party, independent special master to review those records. However, sources told Fox News that the DOJ notified Trump’s team that they would oppose the request.
The Justice Department and FBI declined to comment.
A Trump spokesperson did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.
The FBI’s search warrant and property receipts for Monday’s Mar-a-Lago raid were opened Friday afternoon by Justice Bruce Reinhart.
Prior to the release of the documents, Fox News reviewed warrants and receipts, revealing that the FBI seized classified records from Trump’s home, including those marked top secret. That said, I object to the classification.
Reinhardt signed the warrant on August 5, authorizing the FBI to conduct searches “before August 19, 2022” and “between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. during daylight hours.”
“Locations to be searched include ’45 Offices’, all storage rooms, and all other rooms or areas within the facility used or available to FPOTUS and its staff, including all structures. Boxes or documents may have been stored, including or property buildings,” the warrant states, but does not authorize agents to search areas occupied by Mar-a-Lago members or not used by Trump and his staff.
The warrant states that, in violation of U.S. law, “evidence, contraband, criminal accomplishments, or other unlawful use of evidence, contraband, criminal achievements, or other unlawful Authorized investigators to confiscate all physical documents and records that make up the items possessed. and 20 January 2021.
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According to property receipts reviewed by Fox News before they were released, FBI agents removed approximately 20 boxes of items from the facility, including one set marked “various classified/TS/SCI documents.” documents were included. Fragmented information.
Records subject to that government classification level may contain human intelligence or information that, if disclosed, could endanger the relationship of the United States with other nations and the lives of intelligence operatives abroad. may be exposed. However, the classification also includes national security information related to the day-to-day business of the President of the United States.
The property receipts also show that the FBI agents collected 4 sets of top secret documents, 3 sets of classified documents, and 3 sets of classified documents.
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Property receipts do not reveal details of these records.
The list also includes a “leather box of documents,” photographic binders, handwritten notes, other documents, other top-secret documents, other sensitive documents, and other records.
The government conducted an investigation in response to what it believed was a violation of federal law. 18 USC 793 — Collection, Transmission, or Loss of Defense Information; 18 USC 2071 — Concealment, Removal, or Mutilation; and 18 USC 1519 — Destruction, Alteration, or Alteration of Records in Federal Investigations.
Allegations of “collection, transmission or loss of defense information” fall under espionage law.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced this week that he personally approved a request to obtain a warrant to search the former president’s private residence.
Trump’s office received a grand jury subpoena this spring over classified documents allegedly taken from the White House when the president stepped down as president in 2021.
According to sources, the subpoena was issued to the “president’s custodian” and it related to documents filed by the president. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) was about to collect these classified records after alleging Trump improperly took them from Washington DC to Mar-a-Lago.
A source close to Trump told Fox News that Trump has been cooperating with the investigation into NARA’s records for a year.
On June 3, the FBI visited Mar-a-Lago to obtain documents requested in the subpoena, and Trump complied, sources told Fox News.
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These agents toured a resort in Florida where several documents were kept, briefly browsed, and stored a small amount of potentially sensitive material. Another source told Fox News that federal agents have spoken to at least one person who may have more sensitive national security material in its vaults and elsewhere on the premises. He said he told her about her sex.
That day, FBI officials asked to see the storage facility where the records were kept.The FBI asked staff to lock the storage room, which it later locked.
Trump and his staff have committed, and continue to do so, to comply with the Presidential Records Act, which requires the presidential administration to preserve certain documents, according to this source.
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Trump received the subpoena two months before the FBI’s unprecedented raid on the former US president’s private residence early Monday morning.
The source questioned whether the federal magistrate who approved the FBI raid warrant against Mar-a-Lago on Monday was aware of President Trump’s “past compliance with the subpoena,” If the FBI were looking for additional documents, another Trump and his team were “cooperative” and provided documents and records corresponding to the subpoena issued in the spring, so the subpoena could have been issued. There is a nature.