Mar-a-Lago guests were partying and taking dips in the pool only 60 feet away from classified docs, per new New York Times investigation

The Mar-a-Lago club that hosted dozens of events where guests partied and swam in close proximity to classified documents was the same club where government documents were stored in semi-open storage rooms.

There were boxes of documents located between beach chairs and umbrellas in the storage rooms near the central patio and outdoor spaces used to host events. Guests were only sixty feet away from the documents at times, according to a sweeping visual investigation by The New York Times, which shed light on the nature of the storage of government documents.

After leaving office, Trump hosted at least 50 political events. The White and Gold Ballroom was the location for many of the events.

Storage rooms were used to store the documents less than 60 feet from the White and Gold Ballroom. arched doors that were frequently kept half-open and were open during at least four political events can be found in the storage rooms.

A federal appeals court ruled in December that a special master should stop reviewing government documents that were found and taken at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.

The DOJ's criminal investigation into the documents he held onto as administrations changed over was delayed because of Trump's efforts.

The special master was tasked with reviewing all the documents recovered at Mar-a-Lago, including 11,000 general records and 100 documents marked as classified, in order to determine if any of the documents are protected by attorney-client or executive privilege.

The move to appoint a special master caused a lot of concern among national security experts.

The US Attorney General announced in November that Jack Smith, a special prosecutor, would oversee investigations into Trump after he decided to run again.