What Trump Mar-a-Lago photo shows vs. what we know about handling classified documents
- New DOJ photo shows Trump had top secret and secret documents at Mar-a-Lago.
- The markings show the documents clearly needed to be kept. and even viewed, in a secure facility.
- Photo confirms DOJ claim that Trump kept documents he insisted he’d returned to National Archives.
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department’s midnight filing Tuesday revealed stunning disclosures of alleged mishandling of top secret government documents and possible obstruction by former President Donald Trump or his legal team.
Especially significant – and intriguing – national security experts say, is the photo DOJ included of some of those documents spread out on a carpet at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in South Florida. It showed that at least six of the documents had specific classification markings like “TOP SECRET/SCI” or “SECRET/SCI” emblazoned on their cover sheets. That’s a clear indication they should be kept and viewed only in a highly-secure federal government facility known as a SCIF, or Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.