Trump supporters protesters, this Thursday before the Florida court where a hearing on the Mar-a-Lago registry case was held. CRISTOBAL HERRERA-ULASHKEVICH (EFE)
The detailed inventory of the assets seized by the FBI from Donald Trump in the search of his mansion is less detailed than might be expected.
It does not provide any additional information about the topics covered by the secret documents that the former president kept at Mar-a-Lago.
What it does reveal is that there were almost a hundred empty folders, including 48 with the identification that they originally contained classified documents.
It is not known what happened to those documents.
The inventory also shows that the secret reports the former president kept at Mar-a-Lago were mixed in the boxes with newspaper articles, gifts and other items.
The new inventory is a cursory list of the contents of the 33 lots, most of them boxes full of documents, photographs and magazines, that the FBI took from Trump's mansion in Palm Beach, Florida after the August 8 search. .
Of the 33, seven were in Trump's office and the rest in a storage room that served as a warehouse.
In that storage room alone, 76 classified documents were found, to which are added another 27 in Trump's office.
The list provides more information than the first inventory given to Trump's representatives as a receipt and which was published along with the search warrant.
It shows that in addition to those confidential documents that had already been reported, FBI agents found hundreds of official documents and photographs, which according to United States law are the property of the Government and not of the president, who should have turned them over at the end of charge to the National Archives.
In the new inventory, it is especially striking that there were 48 "empty folders with classification marks", of which the vast majority, 43, were in a box in the former president's office.
That mark means that they were intended to contain confidential and secret documents and probably did contain them at some point.
However, the agents found them without any paper inside.
There is no information about the reason for this, that is, whether Trump got rid of the papers, returned them or there is some other explanation.
Some of the documents recovered at Trump's mansion on August 8 in a photograph taken by FBI agents.AP
There are also 42 other empty folders where the instruction is to return to the military or cabinet assistant.
Again, the question is whether the papers were simply returned (it seems strange to do so without the folder that contains them) or whether they have disappeared for some other reason.
The published inventory does not clear doubts in this regard.
In the boxes there were also hundreds of magazines, newspapers and press clippings from different stages of his presidency and books, clothes and gifts that are not detailed.
The inventory has been published by decision of a Florida judge to whom Trump requested that an independent expert review the seized assets.
The judge has been prone to do so, but she will decide "in due course", as she announced at a hearing this Thursday.
The Justice Department opposed such a review because it might delay its own investigation.
He also alleged that he had already created a filtering team to separate those documents that could be protected by the confidentiality of the relationship between a lawyer and his client.
But the department also used the opportunity afforded by that request to present the most comprehensive incriminating account against Trump unsealed to date.
In the statement that served to justify the search there was surely more information, but the version that has been published has approximately half of its content crossed out.
In its new brief, the Prosecutor's Office has been able to better select what to tell and what not and has also provided a photograph of a small part of the documents seized during the very illustrative search and that has bothered Trump and his lawyers.
In its brief, the Justice Department accused Trump of "hiding and moving" documents, thus propping up the indications that he may have obstructed justice.
The new letter revealed that a hundred classified documents were found in the registry (until then there had been talk of 11 sets of documents, but it was not known how many they added up to).
That's more than double what Trump's lawyers turned over as a result of a June subpoena, despite Trump's lawyers saying that after a "diligent" search they had fully met the subpoena.
Accompanying this argument was the somewhat more detailed inventory of the seized assets, but confidentially.
The judge has finally decided to publish it.
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