Trump workers moved Mar-a-Lago boxes a day before Justice Dept. came for documents
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May 26, 2023
Department of Justice via AP file
This image - from a court filing by the Department of Justice on Aug. 30, 2022, and redacted in part by the FBI - shows a photo of documents seized during the FBI's Aug. 8 search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
Two of Donald Trump's employees moved boxes of papers the day before FBI agents and a prosecutor visited the former president's Florida home to retrieve classified documents in response to a subpoena - timing that investigators have come to view as suspicious and an indication of possible obstruction, according to people familiar with the matter.
Trump and his aides also allegedly carried out a "dress rehearsal" for moving sensitive papers even before his office received the May 2022 subpoena, according to the people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a sensitive ongoing investigation.
Prosecutors in addition have gathered evidence indicating that Trump at times kept classified documents in his office in a place where they were visible and sometimes showed them to others, these people said.
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