Republican Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene derided any potential informants as “traitors”.
“We now know that there was an FBI informant at Mar-a-Lago, who is that and how many other FBI informants are around President Trump on a daily basis, working at his clubs, working at Mar-a-Lago, or maybe Bedminster, or on his staff?” Greene said on her MTG:Live web show, according to Newsweek.
The Journal’s report chronicled discussions between justice department officials and Trump’s lawyers over these records. On 3 June, a high-ranking justice department official and three FBI agents came to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago house “to discuss boxes with government records sitting in a basement storage room along with suits, sweaters and golf shoes”.
Trump and his team seemed unaware of the possible gravity of the situation during this meeting. The former president even popped into the June 3 meeting at Mar-a-Lago, shaking hands. A source told The Journal that the president said: “‘I appreciate the job you’re doing … anything you need, let us know.’”
The FBI sent a missive several days later asking for a more secure lock to be placed on the storage room’s door. In the following weeks, however, someone familiar with the stored papers told investigators there may be still more classified documents at the private club.
The potential presence of these records follows the National Archives’s removal of 15 boxes earlier this year. Officials with the justice department were skeptical that Trump’s team was being forthright about the records that were still at his home, a source told the newspaper.
The warrant for this search alluded to the Presidential Records Act and a potential violation of statute governing classified records, an attorney for Trump reportedly said. Trump has neither disclosed this warrant nor discussed the records removed by federal agents.
“We now know that there was an FBI informant at Mar-a-Lago, who is that and how many other FBI informants are around President Trump on a daily basis, working at his clubs, working at Mar-a-Lago, or maybe Bedminster, or on his staff?” Greene said on her MTG:Live web show, according to Newsweek.
The Journal’s report chronicled discussions between justice department officials and Trump’s lawyers over these records. On 3 June, a high-ranking justice department official and three FBI agents came to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago house “to discuss boxes with government records sitting in a basement storage room along with suits, sweaters and golf shoes”.
Trump and his team seemed unaware of the possible gravity of the situation during this meeting. The former president even popped into the June 3 meeting at Mar-a-Lago, shaking hands. A source told The Journal that the president said: “‘I appreciate the job you’re doing … anything you need, let us know.’”
The FBI sent a missive several days later asking for a more secure lock to be placed on the storage room’s door. In the following weeks, however, someone familiar with the stored papers told investigators there may be still more classified documents at the private club.
The potential presence of these records follows the National Archives’s removal of 15 boxes earlier this year. Officials with the justice department were skeptical that Trump’s team was being forthright about the records that were still at his home, a source told the newspaper.
The warrant for this search alluded to the Presidential Records Act and a potential violation of statute governing classified records, an attorney for Trump reportedly said. Trump has neither disclosed this warrant nor discussed the records removed by federal agents.
