A former top Trump administration official said he thinks the FBI may have taken documents relating to the Russia–Trump collusion investigation during the raid on former President Donald Trump’s Florida home earlier this month.
Former Pentagon chief of staff Kash Patel said in a recent interview that documents that were stored at Mar-a-Lago and marked as classified were declassified when Trump left office in January 2021. He says federal officials will have a difficult time proving that those documents weren’t declassified.
“The bottom line was he said this information has to get out to the American public,” Patel told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published on Aug. 21. Patel said he didn’t know exactly what was in the boxes that FBI agents took from Trump’s home….