Docs Trump Took Were “Most Highly Classified Secrets”

Politico reports:

The National Archives found more than 700 pages of classified material — including “special access program materials,” some of the most highly classified secrets in government — in 15 boxes recovered from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in January, according to correspondence between the National Archivist and his legal team.

The May 10 letter — posted late Monday on the website of John Solomon, a conservative journalist and one of Trump’s authorized liaisons to the National Archives to review papers from his presidency — showed that NARA and federal investigators had grown increasingly alarmed about potential damage to national security caused by the warehousing of these documents at Mar-a-Lago, as well as by Trump’s resistance to sharing them with the FBI.

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Documents recovered at Mar-a-Lago were among government’s most classified, letter shows – POLITICO https://t.co/1pd3bPMXc6

— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) August 23, 2022

Amazing own goal by Team Trump. They released this letter thinking it’d show political meddling by Biden. In fact, it shows the opposite—he delegated exec privilege decisions—while also revealing new info on highly sensitive material in Trump’s possession https://t.co/QZ1u01AsBT

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) August 23, 2022