February 2022: NARA alerts the DOJ that some records remain missing and that some of those recovered are highly classified, reportedly including information on need-to-know special access programs. 
January 17, 2022: Trump turns over some 15 boxes of documents to NARA, some of which the agency says “had been torn up by former President Trump” and including some that “had not been reconstructed by the White House.”. 
NARA and Trump’s representatives negotiate the return of some of these documents in the ensuing months.
May 2021: NARA informs Trump that a number of official documents have not been transferred to its custody. January 20, 2021: President Biden is inaugurated, and former President Trump departs the White House without notifying the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) that he has removed several presidential records, including highly classified material. Many specific facts about the case remain to be seen, but a basic outline of events is fairly clear: While much remains unknown about the particulars of the documents that the search uncovered, enough is known to make clear the alarming implications for U.S. This fact sheet provides a timeline of the events leading up to the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago, a list of laws that Trump has potentially broken, and possible implications for U.S. These documents belong to the American people and not to any particular president. Moreover, under the terms of the Presidential Records Act of 1978, it is illegal for him to do so. While former presidents typically receive courtesy intelligence briefings once out of office, shortly after taking office, President Joe Biden barred Trump from receiving these briefings. Now out of office, there is nearly no substantive reason why former President Trump-or any former president-should retain their own copies of such highly classified information after leaving office. While in office, then-President Trump demonstrated little to no interest in what the intelligence community had to say, and even went out of his way to disparage and undermine it. Department of Justice (DOJ) to seek and then execute a search warrant. The property receipts show that the lawyers’ reported declaration was false and that former President Trump put America’s national security at serious risk.Ī critical and still open question is why Trump took these sensitive documents, resisted returning them, and concealed their existence long enough to force the U.S. Media reports also indicate that former President Trump’s lawyers inaccurately told the FBI in June that they had returned all requested classified documents to the government. Property receipts from the search indicate that at least some of the information confiscated was classified at the highest levels, including top secret/sensitive compartmented information (TS/SCI), intelligence that could reveal how and from whom the United States acquires information from other countries. 
Attorney General Merrick Garland stated he had “personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter.” Attorney Juan Antonio Gonzalez’s argument that there was probable cause that a crime had been committed. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart authorized this warrant, concurring with U.S. agencies to retrieve the documents from Trump. The search was conducted after many previous attempts by U.S. On August 8, the FBI executed a search warrant to retrieve official government records, including sensitive national security documents, from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.
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