After Trump search Investigators point to obstruction of justice

After Trump search: Investigators point to obstruction of justice

In the case of secret documents kept at Donald Trump’s luxurious Mar-a-Lago estate, investigators substantiate their accusation of obstruction of justice. Responsible US prosecutors presented a 54-page document to a Florida court on Tuesday (local time) in which they present their evidence.

“Evidence has found that government records were likely hidden and removed from storage (at Trump’s mansion) and that efforts were likely made to obstruct the investigation (…),” the Justice Department wrote in a courtroom published overnight. Tuesday (local time). document.

In early August, the FBI searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion in Palm Beach, Florida. The FBI confiscated several sets of documents classified as top secret. Since Trump is said to have kept the documents on his private property after his term, he may have broken the law. This is now being investigated. Trump criticized the officials’ actions as politically motivated.


The Republican was president from 2017 to 2021, and may run for a second term in 2024.


Several documents seized


During the search, emergency services confiscated numerous boxes with more than a hundred confidential documents, some of which were subject to the highest levels of secrecy, as the ministry has now written. Contrary to a Trump lawyer’s assurance in early June that such documents would only be kept in the Mar-a-Lago warehouse, secret documents were also found in Trump’s office there.

Last week, Trump asked a Florida court to appoint a special representative to review documents seized during the search. Judge Aileen Cannon on Saturday announced her preliminary intention to appoint such a neutral examiner.


In the court document now filed against Trump’s request, the ministry argued that Trump, as a former president, is no longer entitled to the documents because they “do not belong to him” but are property of the government.