FBI agents were reportedly looking for classified documents about nuclear weapons, among other classified materials, when they searched Donald Trump's home on Monday.
The Washington Post, citing people familiar with the investigation, said the FBI had been searching Trump's Lago resort of Maa for a large number of documents related to nuclear weapons. You quoted what it says is considered. He did not specify the type of document or whether it referred to US or other countries' arsenals.
The report said that Attorney General Merrick Garland had personally approved the government's request for a search warrant, and that the Department of Justiceasked a Florida court to open the warrant.
The DOJ motion referred to the "clear and strong interest of the public in understanding what happened in its context." A man who attempted to break into the FBI's Cincinnati offices was shot dead by police after fleeing the scene on Thursday, following a ferocious backlash from Trump supporters who portrayed the twenty one} .
The court ordered the government to file a complaint with Trump's lawyers and report by 3 p.m. Friday whether Trump challenged the opening of the warrant.
The alleged existence of nuclear weapons documents at Mar-a-Lago prompted Garland to ask his FBI agents to take the political step of entering the former president's home. You can explain why you took it. It is considered a national security priority.
During his time in the White House, Trump wasparticularly fixated on US nuclear weapons,and boasted of being well-versed in classified information.
in 2017 Over the summer, he told U.S. military leaders he wanted a weapon that could rival the peak of the Cold War. This required a 10-fold increase for him, reportedly leading then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. , describes him as a "fucking idiot". Trump has publicly threatened to obliterate both North Korea and Afghanistan.
Bob Woodward, in his book on President Trump, Rage, quotes the former president as saying: increase. he listened Something Putin and Xi Jinping have never heard before. No one - what we have is incredible.
Mr. Woodward was later informed that the United States did indeed have a new, unidentified weapons system, and officials were "surprised" that Mr. Trump disclosed that fact.
There are different classification levels that apply to different types of documents, said Cheryl Loefer, a chemist who worked on nuclear weapons at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
"Information about the design of nuclear weapons is called restricted data, and is 'born classified.' That is, it is considered classified unless it is declassified," said a publication titled Nuclear Diner. blogger Rofer wrote on Twitter. But she added, "There is no reason for the president to have nuclear weapon design information that I can see."
Among the nuclear documents that Trump routinely has access to will be a classified version of the Nuclear Posture Review of US capabilities and policies. Military aides always carry a "nuclear football", a briefcase containing nuclear attack options, close to the president, but it's unusual for those documents to be taken out of a football.
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