According to the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC),trumpFormer special assistant and Oval Office liaison Molly Michael told federal investigators that former President Trump used scraps of paper to write down classified documents and repeatedly wrote to-do lists for him. List) was written in the blank space behind Confidential Document.
Sources reported that Michael told federal investigators that he received notecards from Trump on more than one occasion, and later learned that these notecards were actually highly sensitive confidential documents with encrypted notes. He said Trump received these confidential files provided by his subordinates while he was president. The files contained information about Trump’s phone conversations with foreign heads of state or other international affairs.
People familiar with the matter said FBI agents searched Trump on August 8, 2022, the report said.FloridaNotecards containing confidential document comments were at Mar-a-Lago when they moved into the residence, but were not taken by investigators.
People familiar with the matter said Michael was not at Mar-a-Lago on the day of the operation, but when she went to Mar-a-Lago the next day to clean her office, she found the information in a drawer and retrieved it the same day. Sent to the FBI.
According to the report, Michael told federal investigators that she became more concerned in 2022 over the way Trump responded to the National Archives’ request for classified documents, and that she was also aware that Mar-a-Lago There were several boxes of classified documents. Last year, when Trump learned that the FBI planned to interview Michael, he instructed Michael: “You don’t know anything about the box.”
Trump is suspected of leaving officewhite HouseHe seized classified files without permission and was charged with 37 federal felony counts of endangering national security.
ABC previously reported that Michael was “Trump Staffer 2” described in the indictment by special counsel Jack Smith.
A Trump spokesperson responded that the ABC report was an “illegal leak” and had been taken out of context.
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