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  • The FBI searched Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago last week.

  • The political reporter said he might have stored documents that were personally beneficial.

  • It is not clear what the FBI discovered from his home.

The New York Times reporter, who has covered Donald Trump for decades, speculated that the FBI's seizure of documents from Mar-a-Lago could have been beneficial.

On Tuesday's episode of "Hacks on Tap", the New York Times reporter and CNN analyst discussed possible scenarios for why Trump kept those documents.

She thinks the former president could have kept the documents because he thought it was cool.

He sees something personally beneficial if it's something that he can use to bolster himself or if it's something that he believes will help him in his business or his personal brand.

There is a chance that a foreign adversary could accidentally see these things, and there is also a chance that Trump could have been.

It's not clear what was taken from Mar-a-Lago after the search warrant was leaked and the list was made public. The full extent of the documents listed in the warrant is not known.

She said that there was a concern that whatever he had could be used for.

Business Insider has an article on it.