Eric Trump defended his father over the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago.
Eric Trump commented on a photo shared by the Department of Justice that showed some of the classified documents found at the Florida residence.
My father is a very neat man. He doesn't leave anything on the floor.
Several Truth Social posts were made by the elder Trump about the same photo.
There seems to be confusion as to the picture where documents were thrown on the floor and then released photographically for the world to see, as if the FBI found that when they broke into my home. It's wrong! It was written by Trump.
He wrote that they took them out of cartons and spread them around on the carpet. He said that they dropped them not him.
The former president was upset about how the documents were placed all over the floor.
The DOJ's photo was included in a court filing.
The folders with the phrase "top secret" were placed on the floor next to the redacted letters. A framed copy of a Time magazine cover that depicted Trump in a bad light was also seen.
The Washington Post reports that the FBI seized 11 sets of classified documents during the search of Mar-a-Lago. The Espionage Act is one of the federal laws the DOJ is looking into if Trump broke by keeping the documents at his Florida residence.
FBI agents and DOJ attorneys involved in the raid needed additional clearances to view some of the seized files. According to The Washington Post, the documents seized from Trump's home contained information about a foreign government's nuclear defense.