According to a media report, the FBI federal police are said to have searched for secret documents about nuclear weapons when they searched the property of former US President Donald Trump.
The “Washington Post” reported on Friday night that the newspaper’s unspecified sources did not say what information was actually involved, nor whether this information affected the United States or other countries. The sources also did not provide any information as to whether relevant documents had been found during the search.
The FBI searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida last Monday. The process is considered unprecedented in the history of the United States. Trump was not at his home during the search. He and other Republicans have strongly criticized the search and accused Democratic US President Joe Biden of politicizing the FBI. According to the White House, Biden did not know in advance about the search of the Trump property.
The background to the search was apparently Trump’s handling of documents from his tenure. Earlier this year, it was revealed that the National Archives, which is responsible for storing presidential correspondence, suspected several boxes of confidential material were in Mar-a-Lago. Trump finally handed over several documents to the agency in January.
According to US media reports, there was then a further exchange between investigators and Trump’s lawyers. Officials suspected Trump or his team were continuing to withhold important documents, the Washington Post wrote, citing anonymous sources. The FBI is said to have taken twelve boxes.
There was also a brutal incident in Ohio on Thursday. A man armed with a nail gun and semi-automatic rifle attempted to storm an FBI office. He was reportedly a Trump supporter. It is still unclear whether the act was an act of revenge for the Federal Police raid on Trump.
The man fled down the highway, where he was later shot by the police.
