Donald Trump. File photoWASHINGTON, Aug 14U.S. House of Representatives two committee chairs Carolyn Maloney and Adam Schiff have requested an urgent briefing on whether former U.S. President Donald Trump harmed national security by keeping classified documents on his Florida estate.»We are requesting an immediate harm assessment for the information that Trump took secret information and kept it on his estate,» the legislators' letter addressed to the director of national intelligence, Avril Haynes, says in a published letter. Trump Estate Searches On Monday evening, Trump said his Mar-a-Lago estate had been searched by FBI agents. The former president added that FBI agents did not allow anyone, including lawyers, to be present during the searches. Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Thursday that he had personally authorized the filing of a lawsuit for a search warrant, a decision that was not an easy one, but one that was justified. On Friday afternoon, the US declassified a search warrant for the Trump estate.In the West, the United States was called a «crazy gerontocracy» and a banana republic. A Florida court issued a search warrant for Trump's estate and an inventory of seized property. As follows from the documents, the search warrant was approved by the court on the afternoon of August 5, the court allowed the entire territory of the estate to be explored. The court, as follows from the documents, was guided, among other things, by the article of the US Code on the «collection, transfer or loss of defense information.» The list of seized items includes boxes with documents, notes, photographs and top secret papers. As the Wall Street Journal wrote on Friday, in total, during searches at the estate of the ex-president, FBI agents seized 11 sets of secret documents, and about 20 boxes of documents were also taken from there. , photographs and notes. Among the seized papers, there is also a decree pardoning former Trump adviser Roger Stone. Trump himself had previously said that there was no need for FBI agents to search his estate in Florida. According to the ex-president of the United States, all the documents seized by the federals were declassified, moreover, he claims that he was ready to give them to the authorities voluntarily. Congresswoman initiates impeachment of US Attorney General over searches of Trump's house
