Trump Reveals What the FBI Actually Took During Raid

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A judge has approved the release of a list of documents removed from President Donald Trump’s Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago.

The materials include roughly 20 boxes of materials previously labeled top secret and meant to be viewed only in secure government facilities.

However, Trump fired back that all documents were already declassified.

“Number one, it was all declassified,” Trump explained. “Number two, they didn’t need to ‘seize’ anything.”

“They could have had it anytime they wanted without playing politics and breaking into Mar-a-Lago,” he continued.

Trump added: “It was in secured storage, with an additional lock put on as per their request.”

Moreover, FBI agents even took binders of photos, handwritten notes, miscellaneous documents, and other records that were unrelated to the search for allegedly classified materials.

“The Biden administration is in obvious damage control after their botched raid where they seized the President’s picture books, a ‘hand-written note,’ and declassified documents,” Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich told Fox News.

“This raid of President Trump’s home was not just unprecedented, but unnecessary–and they are leaking lies and innuendos to try to explain away the weaponization of government against their dominant political opponent. This is outrageous.”

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According to the property receipt, reviewed by Fox News, FBI agents took approximately 20 boxes of items from the premises, including one set of documents marked as “Various classified/TS/SCI documents,” which refers to top secret/ sensitive compartmented information.

Records covered by that government classification level could include human intelligence, and information that, if disclosed, could jeopardize relations between the United States and other nations, as well as the lives of intelligence operatives abroad. However, the classification also encompasses national security information related to the daily operations of the president of the United States.

The property receipt also shows that FBI agents collected four sets of top secret documents, three sets of secret documents, and three sets of confidential documents.

The property receipt does not reveal any details about any of those records.

The former president and his team are disputing the classification and believe the information and records to have been declassified.

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Trump posted on his TRUTH Social account Friday that the documents were “all declassified.”

Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday, in a rare public statement, said the Justice Department had filed a motion to unseal the warrant and property receipt for the search of the residence of a former president of the United States, “in light of the former president’s public confirmation of the search, the surrounding circumstances and the substantial public interest in this matter.”

“The public’s clear and powerful interest in understanding what occurred under these circumstances weighs heavily in favor of unsealing,” the DOJ’s motion states, noting that Trump should have the opportunity to respond to the motion and “lodge objections, including with regard to any ‘legitimate private interests’ or the potential for other ‘injury’ if these materials are made public.”

Trump, in a statement late Thursday night, called for the “immediate” release of the warrant and property receipt.

“Not only will I not oppose the release of documents related to the unAmerican, unwarranted, and unnecessary raid and break-in of my home in Palm Beach, Florida, Mar-a-Lago, I am going a step further by ENCOURAGING the immediate release of those documents, even though they have been drawn up by radical left Democrats and possible future political opponents, who have a strong and powerful vested interest in attacking me, much as they have done for the last 6 years,” Trump said.