The FBI found a document on nuclear weapons from another country at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home

The FBI found among the documents seized from Trump at his residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, a paper that describes the military defenses of a foreign government, including its nuclear capabilities, according to The Washington Post, citing familiar sources. with the matter.

Among the confiscated documents are details of top-secret operations in the country that could only be known by the president and some high-ranking government officials or the White House cabinet, according to anonymous sources cited by the newspaper.

Our sister network, NBC News, has not yet been able to independently verify this information.

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Access to this information requires special authorizations, according to the newspaper.

Files are stored under lock and key in a secure location with a designated control officer to carefully monitor their location.

Yet these documents were kept at Mar-a-Lago more than 18 months after Trump left the White House.

Pages from an FBI property list of items seized from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate and released by the Justice Department, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022.Jon Elswick/AP

The FBI was able to recover, after months of trying, more than 300 classified documents from Mar-a-Lago this year, according to government court documents: 184 in a set of 15 boxes sent to the National Archives and Records Administration in January, 38 more turned over by a Trump lawyer to investigators in June, and more than 100 additional documents uncovered in a court-approved search on Aug. 8.

It was in this latest batch of recovered government secrets, people familiar with the matter said, that the information about a foreign government's nuclear defense readiness was found.

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The sources did not identify the foreign government in question, say where the document was found at Mar-a-Lago, or offer additional details about one of the most sensitive national security investigations ever carried out by the Justice Department.

Trump has compared the search for classified nuclear weapons-related documents on social media to a series of previous government investigations into his conduct.

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“The nuclear weapons issue is a hoax, just like Russia, Russia, Russia was a hoax, the two impeachments were a hoax, the Mueller investigation was a hoax, and so much more.

Same sleazy people involved,” he wrote, later suggesting that FBI agents might have left behind evidence against him.

The US government had repeatedly required Trump to hand them over if he had taken classified documents from the White House, but the former president's entourage responded evasively.

On Monday, a US judge agreed to let a special inspector oversee official documents recovered by the FBI at the former president's Florida residence.

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Judge Aileen Cannon, of the Southern District of Florida, ordered that the inspector, still to be appointed, be in charge of reviewing the seized assets, managing the claims of privilege invoked in this regard, making recommendations and evaluating the claims for the return of assets.

The decision made this Monday by the judge stipulates that the Department of Justice cannot continue reviewing the seized material or use it in the framework of the investigation until that expert does not finish his analysis or until a new court order.