Former President Donald Trump’s According to a report, the Mar-a-Lago estate provided a document containing information on a foreign government’s military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities.
What happened: The document was found during a search conducted by agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation last month, according to people familiar with the matter. reported The Washington Post.
The information about the foreign government’s nuclear defense plans was reportedly found in a trove of 100 documents in a court-authorized search that took place on August 8.
Among those documents, some were marked “HCS,” a category of top-secret government documents related to “HUMINT control systems” — put in place to protect information derived from human sources, the Post reported.
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Why it matters: The Washington Post sources did not identify the foreign government, nor did they offer information about exactly where the document was found in Trump’s estate, or additional details about the US Justice Department’s investigation.
The FBI reportedly seized more than 300 classified documents from Mar-a-Lago this year. Some of these documents contain details of US operations so tightly guarded that even senior national security officials remain in the dark.
After the search, Trump continued to post truth sociala social media platform Trump media and technology group (TMTG), “Nothing mentioned on ‘Nuclear,’ a total PR subterfuge by the DOJ.”
Trump’s comments related to an affidavit that was unsealed last month and linked to the FBI search.
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