This week, news broke that additional classified government items were discovered by an outside team, hired by none other than the ex-president’s own legal team, inside a Florida storage unit being rented by Donald Trump — serving as cold, hard proof that the corrupt former president had and likely continues to have additional classified materials at locations other than his Mar-a-Lago resort that was raided by the FBI earlier this year.
Now, it seems that the proverbial shoe in this matter has already dropped.
According to breaking reporting from the Washinton Post, prosecutors with the United States Department of Justice have now called on a federal judge to hold not only former President Donald Trump but also his legal team in contempt for his clear failure to comply with a subpoena issued against him that ordered the now 2024 presidential candidate to overturn all classified government documents he wrongfully removed from the White House upon the end of his presidential term.
The newspaper reports:
Prosecutors have urged a federal judge to hold Donald Trump’s office in contempt of court for failing to fully comply with a May subpoena to return all classified documents in his possession, according to people familiar with the matter — a sign of how contentious the private talks have become over whether the former president still holds any secret papers.”
One of the key areas of disagreement centers on the Trump legal team’s repeated refusal to designate a custodian of records to sign a document attesting that all classified materials have been returned to the federal government.
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The Washington Post spoke with sources who allegedly have insider knowledge on the matter, who confirmed that the classified items in question were immediately turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation upon their discovery. According to the source, the materials were found by a two-person outside team that was hired and overseen by Donald Trump’s own attorneys with the task of thoroughly searching a total of four properties owned by ex-President Trump.
It remains unclear what specific classified items and materials were discovered in the Trump-rented storage unit. However, this bombshell development serves as irrefutable proof that, while the DOJ did issue and complete an FBI search and seizure warrant raid at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort turned post-White House home, where they discovered thousands of documents and materials, the Palm Beach compound is not the only place the ex-president has stashed classified materials.
Recently, the Trump legal team called on the DOJ, which has long assumed that Trump is holding classified materials elsewhere to this day, to observe a search they would be conducting at Donald’s Bedminster resort, an offer that the Justice Department ultimately declined. However, Trump’s attorneys did not extend the same offer to the Department of Justice when it came to the searches at two other Trump properties, including Trump Tower, or the storage unit in question.
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