The documents recovered during the week by the American federal police in the Florida residence of the former tenant of the White House include information on the “President of France”.
Le Monde with AFP and Reuters
FBI agents having led this week a search of the home of Donald Trump, Florida, seized classified documents, including some qualified “top secret”, which the former American president had illegally taken with him by leaving the White House, according to court documents published Friday August 12.
The American Department of Justice declared to the federal judge Bruce Reinhart, who signed the search warrant, that he has good reasons to think that Donald Trump violated the “Act Espionage”, the federal law adopted in 1917 which prohibits the possession or transmission of information likely to harm US military operations or to benefit the enemies of the United States.
The mandate, whose seals were lifted on Friday at the request of the federal judge, reveals that the FBI agents won about twenty cards containing various documents, including some “top secret”, photo albums and the letter Manuscript by which Donald Trump had granted his presidential grace to his former partner Roger Stone.
No comment from the Elysée
Federal police also seized documents concerning the “president of France”, reported on Friday Wall Street Journal , who says he has access to an inventory of three pages of what was collected Monday during this search. No other details are given on the nature of this information, nor if it concerns the current French president Emmanuel Macron. Contacted by the Reuters agency, the Elysée did not wish to comment on these “information” which would have been in possession of Donald Trump.
The former American president did not oppose the content of the search mandate to be made public. “Not only will I not oppose the publication of documents (…) but I will go further by encouraging their immediate publication,” he wrote Thursday evening that he created Truth Social, him Who had refrained from making public the copy of the mandate he had received. He assured in a press release on Friday that the documents collected by the police had all been declassified.
, on the other hand, he denied on Friday that federal agents were looking for documents related to nuclear weapons from the United States, as reported on Thursday the Washington Post.
“This story of nuclear weapons is a hoax,” he wrote on Truth Social. Donald Trump estimated that this information was to be put in the same rank as the controversies concerning his links with Moscow and the two impreach procedures undertaken against him.
political revenge, according to Donald Trump
The search has registered as part of an investigation into documents that Donald Trump would have illegally taken away with him outside the White House at the end of his principal, in January 2021. The law obliges the presidents Americans to transmit all of his emails, letters and other working documents in the American national archives.
Never the home of an ex-White House unit had so far been searched. Merrick Garland, appointed by Joe Biden, Donald Trump’s Democratic successor, said Thursday during a press conference that he personally approved the search. “The department does not make such a decision lightly,” he said, adding that less intrusive means were usually preferred when possible.
This confirmation is very unusual, while representatives of the police generally do not evoke undergoing surveys, in particular to protect the rights of people. Unusual fact, too, it was Donald Trump himself who announced Monday evening that his residence was searched by FBI agents, accusing Joe Biden of engaging in political revenge.