Sources close to Donald Trump’s former president have told Breitbart News the General Services Administration (GSA), not political staffers, packed his boxes of documents to Mar-a-Lago.
Shortly after the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago this month, reportedly to reclaim documents Donald Trump had taken from the White House in January 2021, journalist David Martosko announced that a source close to the former president confirmed the documents were boxed by government staffers in the GSA, not Trump’s own staffers.
“A person very close to Donald Trump tells me it’s indeed true what’s being bandied about Twitter — that the @USGSA, not Trump or anyone working for him in the White House, packed the boxes that the FBI took in Monday’s raid. Martosko stated that if true, the egg scrambles a little.”
A person very close to Donald Trump tells me it’s indeed true what’s being bandied about Twitter — that the @USGSA, not Trump or anyone working for him in the White House, packed the boxes that the FBI took in Monday’s raid. It scrambles the eggs a little if that is true.
— David Martosko (@dmartosko) August 13, 2022
A source close to Trump confirmed to Breitbart that Martosko’s claims were true and that documents had been packed by GSA prior to Joe Biden taking office.
According to the New York Times, sources close to the investigation claim that the government has received more than 300 documents “with classified markings” since Donald Trump left office.
“In total, the government has recovered more than 300 documents with classified markings from Mr. Trump since he left office, the people said: that first batch of documents returned in January, another set provided by Mr. Trump’s aides to the Justice Department in June and the material seized by the F.B.I. in the search this month,” the Times noted.
The exact nature of the documents remains unknown at this time, but the 150 documents returned by the president in January are reported to have information pertaining to the CIA, FBI, NSA, and a variety of other national security interests.
“The highly sensitive nature of some of the material in the boxes prompted archives officials to refer the matter to the Justice Department,” reported the Times. “During a Justice Department visit to Mar-a-Lago in June , Mr. Trump’s aides turned over several dozen sensitive documents.”
After the former President returned another round of documents in June and Department of Justice officials became worried about security of documents remaining in their possession after reviewing surveillance footage of an easily-traversed corridor that led to the basement storage area where documents were stored at Mar-a-Lago.
Donald Trump maintained that he was cooperating with DOJ until the raid this month.
Paul Bois joined Breitbart News in the summer of 2021 after previously working as a writer for TruthRevolt and The Daily Wire. His news articles cover a wide range of subjects, including current events and pop-cultural trends. Follow him on Twitter @Paulbois39.
