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Among the classified records taken to Mar-a-Lago by President Trump were documents so sensitive that one had been distributed to just six people, while another set was relevant to his business interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The disclosure, made to the House Judiciary Committee as part of its investigation into the probes into Trump, offers new details about the types of records the president took with him to Florida after losing the 2020 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The public is still barred from seeing former special counsel Jack Smith\u2019s report surrounding the investigation that prompted him to bring Espionage Act charges against Trump after 300 documents with classified markings were discovered at his Florida estate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The files shared with Congress include a January 2023 memo of work on Smith\u2019s team. Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) also shared them on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In it, agents are seen discussing the need to secure permission to show the classified documents at trial, arguing that Trump\u2019s business interest in the documents indicates his motive, while the closely held documents show the highly sensitive nature of the materials. The memo does not provide further specifics about the contents of the classified documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMost damning is what these documents, cherry-picked by your own DOJ for disclosure, show about President Trump\u2019s conduct,\u201d Raskin wrote in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, going to quote from the memo from Smith\u2019s team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cFBI has also found that certain classified documents President Trump improperly retained \u2018would be pertinent to certain business interests.\u2019 DOJ prosecutors further assessed that these \u2018classified documents pertinent to his business interests\u2019 established \u2018a motive for retaining them,\u201d Raskin wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe memorandum further specifies that the disclosure of these documents represented \u2018an aggravated potential harm to national security.\u2019 The prosecutors also wrote that these were \u2018highly sensitive documents\u2014the type of documents that only presidents and officials with the most sensitive authority have.\u2019 One \u2018particularly sensitive document was accessible by only 6? people, including the president.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At another point in the memo, prosecutors discuss Trump showing a classified map to passengers traveling with him aboard a flight, including his now chief of staff Susie Wiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the panel\u2019s Democrats, it\u2019s possible the Justice Department disclosure may violate an order from U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon, who sided with Trump in barring the release of Smith\u2019s report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cannon\u2019s order barred Bondi from sharing the report or \u201cany information or conclusions\u201d from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Justice Department on Wednesday called Raskin \u201cblinded by hatred of President Trump,\u201d and claimed without providing further details that the Smith memo contains \u201csalacious and untrue claims about President Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis Department of Justice is the most transparent in history in part because of our efforts to expose the weaponization of the Biden administration in full compliance with the law and the court. Jack Smith\u2019s team was desperate to prosecute Biden\u2019s top political opponent, so it is no surprise that his files contain salacious and untrue claims about President Trump. The accusations Raskin makes are baseless. Judge Cannon\u2019s protective order was not violated,\u201d a DOJ spokesperson wrote, adding that they also did not violate any grand jury secrecy rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs an attorney and law professor, one must assume Raskin understands this, and thus, reveals this letter is nothing more than a cheap political stunt almost as if taking cues from members of the corrupt Jack Smith prosecution team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nonetheless, the files prompted ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) to call on Attorney General Pam Bondi to answer a series of questions about the memo, from providing details about what was depicted on the classified map Trump allegedly showed to passengers to which of Trump\u2019s business interests the documents pertain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWithout access to Volume II of the Special Counsel\u2019s final report or the investigative files, we do not know what that classified map contained, nor can we determine from this memo the relationship between the classified documents President Trump stole and their pertinence to his \u2018business interests,\u2019\u201d Raskin wrote, before referencing golf deals pursued by the Trump family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe do know that around the time of this flight to Bedminster, President Trump was entering into partnerships with Saudi-backed LIV Golf and state-linked real estate firm Dar al Arkan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In previous reports, Trump was described as having shown off a classified map, telling an aide not to get too close, as they did not have a clearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another instance, Trump is alleged to have shared plans for military action in Iran with those present for a meeting organized to help biographers pen a book on his former chief of staff Mark Meadows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raskin argued the military plans regarding Iran must now be seen in a new light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf this map is related to our military posture in the Middle East, and it was in fact shown to any foreign official, Saudi or otherwise,\u201d he wrote, \u201cthat would amount to an unforgiveable betrayal of our men and women in uniform who are currently valiantly fighting in President Trump\u2019s disastrous war against Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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