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The Biden administration, in what could be one of the Democrats’ last-ditch attempts to prevent President Donald Trump from running for office again in 2024, is working on an “espionage” case against him, based on documents FBI agents seized from his home this week.
A report in the Daily Mail contended that there were multiple classified documents seized from Trump’s home, but there also have been charges that the agents may have planted information, perhaps even bugging the home, as lawyers for Trump say the documents had been declassified already.
The Daily Mail said it appears the Democrats in power in Washington now are investigating President Trump for obstructing justice and Espionage Act violations.
The report said, “The FBI would have needed to prove reasonable suspicion that Trump committed a crime in holding on to the documents – reports suggest that criminal statutes cited in the not-yet-public warrant include espionage, removal of records and obstruction of justice.”
However, other disputes with post-presidential handling of documents routinely are handled as administrative matters.
The report said the FBI took 20 boxes from Trump’s Florida estate in an unannounced raid, even though Trump and his lawyers have confirmed he was cooperating with federal demands for documents he may, or may not, have had.
The FBI claims that its agents confiscated “four sets of top secret documents, three sets of secret documents, and three sets of confidential documents were retrieved.”
But Trump’s lawyers said they were declassified, as a president has the power to declassify any document.
One published report said the agents were looking for papers related to nuclear weapons, but critics immediately warned that report may have been planted in the media by the government.
Trump, in a statement, pointed out, “Number one, it was all declassified. Number two, they didn’t need to ‘seize’ anything. They could have had it anytime they wanted without playing politics and breaking into Mar-a-Lago.
