Former US president Donald Trump is being investigated under the Epsionage Act, warrant papers have revealed.
The warrant, which allowed FBI agents to search Mar-a-Lago, was unsealed by a federal judge in Florida.
It revealed that it was approved on 5 August - three days before the raid - with law enforcement having until 19 August to execute the search. Authorities recovered 11 sets of classified documents from when Mr Trump left the White House - including some which were labelled top secret, US media reported.FBI 'searched Donald Trump's estate for classified nuclear documents’
Donald Trump's spokesman, Taylor Budowich, told CBS: "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." He added: "This raid of President Trump's home was not just unprecedented, but unnecessary—and now they are leaking lies and innuendos to try to explain away the weaponisation of government against their dominant political opponent.
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