Donald Trump speaks at the North Carolina Republican convention. File photoWASHINGTON, Aug 23 The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) found more than 100 documents containing 700 pages of classified information in materials removed from Donald Trump's estate in January 2022, according to a published report. Tuesday in a letter from US State Archivist Debra Wall. «Among the materials in the boxes are more than 100 documents with classified information on more than 700 pages,» Wall writes. «/>Mike Pence said he did not collect classified documents when he left his post «Some (documents) include the highest levels of secrecy, including materials from the special access program,» the archivist notes. Wall's letter was written on May 10 and addressed to former federal prosecutor Evan Corcoran in response to his request to NARA, but was not published earlier. The letter refers to materials that were seized by NARA employees at the estate of former US President Trump back in January 2022. Trump took them out of the White House and moved them to Mar-o-Lago, where FBI searches were already taking place in August. Among the documents were correspondence with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and a message from Barack Obama left in 2016 to his successor Trump. «Access to the materials is not only necessary for the purposes of our criminal investigation, but the executive branch (authorities) must also assess the potential damage and take the necessary actions,” writes Wall. She points out that NARA notified the US Department of Justice about the results of the document check, and also asked through the Department of Justice to ensure the request of the current president of the country, Joe Biden, to provide the FBI with access to materials for their further evaluation, which was done later. Archivists seized Mar-a-Lago as part of the Presidential Documents Act, which makes all official presidential documents public property. This law was passed in 1978 after the Watergate scandal that erupted under President Richard Nixon in 1974. In February, it was reported that Trump had taken documents from the White House to his estate. On August 8, FBI officers raided Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate (Florida), which was conducted as part of an investigation under articles on the illegal use of defense information, theft and destruction documents. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland later said he personally authorized the filing of a lawsuit for a search warrant. In response, a number of Republican politicians came out with sharp criticism of the security services and Garland. After that, by court order, a search warrant and an inventory of the seized were made public, from which it follows that 11 sets of secret documents were found on Trump. Will Trump be jailed
