RIGHT NOW: Trump is being investigated for violating the Espionage Act

USA Donald Trump is being investigated for espionage 

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Josefine Karlsson 

Hans Österman 

Published: Today 19.22 Updated: Less than 40 min ago 

NEWS 

Donald Trump is being investigated for suspected espionage. 

Therefore, the FBI raided his Mar-a-lago estate where they found "top secret" documents. 

Now the search warrant and the list of seizures have become public. The tours surrounding Donald Trump and the raid on his property Mar-a-lago continue. 

Now Politico reports that the ex-president is being investigated for suspected violations of the Espionage Act, as well as obstruction of justice and that it prompted the raid. The team room can be used if leaked documents are suspected, and the Espionage Act prohibits the possession and transfer of defense information. 

The FBI raided Mar-a-lago in Florida early Monday morning. The agents took about 20 boxes of documents, binders, photographs and other items during the search. The order came from US Attorney General Merrick Garland and was approved by judges. The reason is that Donald Trump is accused of taking secret documents from the White House with him when he ended his term as president. 

List published 

According to the Wall Street Journal, the FBI seized eleven sets of classified documents during the raid. Several of them were marked as "top secret" and were meant to be kept in special government facilities. 

On Friday, a federal judge ruled that the search warrant and the list of what FBI agents seized should be made public. It appears that prior to the house search there was a suspicion that Donald Trump had violated the Espionage Act. 

The attachments are numbered and named and several are only referred to as "top secret". Yesterday, the Washington Post reported that the FBI found classified dokument about nuclear  weapons, which Trump has denied. 

Some seizures in the list are named "Info re: President of France", "Handwritten note" and "Pardon of Roger Stone", who is Trump's former adviser. 

Attorney General Merrick Garland had asked for the list to be made public because of the broad public interest. Even Donald Trump said on Thursday that he welcomed such a decision. 

“Could have gotten what they wanted” 

The FBI crackdown is the first ever of a former US president. On Thursday, Donald Trump wrote on his own platform, Truth Social, that the agents rummaged around and, among other things, made a mess in wife Melania's wardrobe during the raid. 

Trump wrote in a post that he is "fully cooperating" and that "the government could have gotten what they wanted, if we had had it." 

According to Donald Trump's lawyers, the documents must have been classified before Trump took them out of the White House and on to Mar-a-lago and that he had a mandate to do so.