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Records in Trump documents case raise concerns over business conflict, lawmaker says

Raskin alleges Trump kept documents ‘pertinent to his business interests’, but DOJ and White House dismiss claims

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Stacks of boxes in a bathroom at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022. File photo: US Justice Department
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Newly released records in the ⁠now-dismissed classified documents case against US President Donald Trump raise fresh concerns over national security risks and potential private business motivations, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee said.

The records, handed over by the US Department of Justice as part of the Republican-led panel’s investigation into former US Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigations into Trump, show FBI investigators said in a 2023 memo that the classified documents kept by Trump ‌after he left office were “pertinent to his business interests” and were found commingled with other documents created later, US congressman Jamie Raskin said.
Some of the classified documents were also “so sensitive that only six people in the entire US government had access to them”, while one box of documents was scanned, stored on a Trump aide’s laptop for nearly two years and uploaded to a cloud, raising further security concerns, Raskin said.
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The newly released information also showed that Trump apparently took classified documents on a June 2022 flight to his New Jersey golf club and showed a classified map to then top campaign official ⁠Susie Wiles and potentially others, according to his letter. Wiles now serves as White House chief of staff.

Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee. Photo: Reuters
Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee. Photo: Reuters
“This glimpse into the trove of evidence behind the ‌cover-up reveals a President of the United States who may have sold out our national security to enrich himself,” Raskin wrote in a letter sent on Tuesday to US Attorney General Pam Bondi.
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The release of the documents to the congressional committee may have also ‌violated a gag order imposed by the Trump-appointed federal judge in the case, he said.

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