Former President Donald Trump.
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A grand jury subpoenaed former President Donald Trump for classified documents he took from the White House to Mar-a-Lago before the FBI took the dramatic step of searching his home, The New York Times reported.
Two people who were briefed on the documents, some of which were classified, told The Times that investigators believed some of the material was so sensitive and critical to national security that the Justice Department had no choice but to send FBI agents to retrieve them from Mar-a-Lago.
Trump announced on Monday that the FBI executed a search warrant at his home in Palm Beach, Florida. In a lengthy statement, he accused the feds of “prosecutorial misconduct” and “political persecution” and added: “They even broke into my safe!”
It was initially unclear what the search warrant related to, but ABC News later cited sources saying it was related to 15 boxes of documents that Trump had taken to Mar-a-Lago upon leaving office. The National Archives asked the Justice Department earlier this year to investigate if Trump broke the law when he took the boxes, some of which contained classified information.
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