The American newspaper Washington Post has claimed that the security officials who raided the house of former President Donald Trump were looking for documents related to nuclear weapons.
Referring to a report published in the American newspaper, the Reuters news agency said that it is not clear whether the Federal Investigation Agency (FBI) team was able to obtain documents from Donald Trump's house or not.
However, sources familiar with the matter said that the FBI recovered ten boxes during the search.
It should be noted that on Monday, the FBI raided former President Donald Trump's Florida home 'Mar a Lago' and broke a safe there during the search. Donald Trump was not in Florida at that time.
The purpose of the FBI team's raid on Donald Trump's home was to find out whether the former president illegally took any official records with him when he left the White House in January 2021.
According to the Department of Justice, some of these are classified documents that are kept secret.
Attorney General Mark Garland, nominated by President Joe Biden, has stated in a press conference that he himself authorized the search of Donald Trump's home.
It is a highly unusual move for the Attorney General to confirm such a raid in a press conference.
Law enforcement officials in the U.S. typically don't talk publicly about ongoing investigations to protect people's rights. However, in this case, Donald Trump himself issued a statement on Monday night that his house was raided by the FBI.
On the other hand, the Department of Justice has said that the people should also be told about the items seized from the former president's house by the FBI.
Former archivist David Ferrero previously said that Donald Trump returned 15 boxes containing some classified documents to the government in January 2022, a year after he left the White House.
A few months before the raid on Trump's home, FBI agents had gone to the former president's home to investigate boxes that were lying in a locked storage room.
FBI officials and Trump's lawyer Evan Corcoran spent a whole day reviewing all the material.
The Department of Justice and the Attorney General have faced intense criticism and threats since the raid on Donald Trump's home.
Trump supporters and the Republican Party have accused Democrats of using the bureaucracy as a weapon to target the former president.
