According to the Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit, the early FBI investigation determined that classified documents with national security information had been stored at an “unauthorized location” at former President Trump’s Florida home.
“The FBI’s investigation has established that documents bearing classification markings, which appear to contain National Defense Information (NDI), were among the materials contained in the FIFTEEN BOXES and were stored at the PREMISES in an unauthorized location,” the FBI affidavit says.
The “fifteen boxes” is a reference to the 15 boxes of material removed from Mar-a-Lago in January. And “the premises” refers to Trump’s resort and personal residence at Mar-a-Lago.
Federal investigators also cited former Trump’s residential suite, his “45 office” and other locations at Mar-a-Lago in the affidavit supporting the search warrant of the Florida resort.
Investigators wrote that none of the spaces in Trump’s residence had been authorized for storage of classified information.
“Based upon this investigation, I believe that the STORAGE ROOM, FPOTUS’s residential suite, Pine Hall, the ‘45 Office,’ and other spaces within the PREMISES are not currently authorized locations for the storage of classified information or NDI (national defense information),” the affidavit says. “Similarly, based upon this investigation, I do not believe that any spaces within the PREMISES have been authorized for the storage of classified information at least since the end of FPOTUS ‘s Presidential Administration on January 20, 2021,” according to the affidavit.
