Legal analysts said that new details from the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago suggest that former President Donald Trump may have authorized a false statement.
Experts zeroed in on an affidavit an attorney for Trump gave to investigators when they visited Mar-a-Lago.
The information was made public on the order of a federal judge.
The Espionage Act is one of the laws that investigators believe Trump may have broken.
—The Recount (@therecount) September 13, 2022
There were no records in any private office space or other locations in Mar-a-Lago according to one Trump attorney.
A lawyer for Trump, Christina Bobb, signed a statement saying that all of the information requested by the government had been turned over.
The information turned out to be incorrect. When agents executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, they found a lot of highly confidential records, including in Trump's office.
According to analysts, the new evidence shows that Trump was behind the false claims.
"There's more of an implication in this newly released information that the former president played a role in the provision of information about documents to whoever the lawyer who certified this information to the Justice Department was," said a former US attorney in an interview.
There is an implication that documents were stored in storage areas and that there was no personal office for the former president.
—Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) September 13, 2022
David Laufman was the former Chief of DOJ's Counterintelligence Section.
He thinks it's more likely that he lied to them because they were going to transmit those lies to the government.
The same conclusion was reached on the social networking site.
He said that the attorney's claim that he was advised by Trump was most likely true.
Insider asked for comment from representatives for Trump, but they did not reply.
There was no sense in keeping that information under wraps because Trump's lawyers had disclosed some of it in their court filing.
The affidavit was heavily redacted after DOJ lawyers argued that releasing all of the information could compromise their investigation.
Trump has denied any wrongdoing in relation to his possession of the records, claiming that they were broadly declassified before he left office.
Trump's lawyers didn't make that argument in any legal filing.
Legal analysts say that Trump wouldn't have a right to retain many of the documents even if they were classified.
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