On Friday, President Trump noted how all the documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate in a Monday raid by the FBI were declassified, and all the agency had to do was ask him.
Breitbart News reports:
“Number one, it was all declassified,” Trump wrote in a statement released to reporters. “Number two, they didn’t need to ‘seize’ anything.”
The former president said the documents were secure and the FBI could have asked for any documents that they wanted but accused them of choosing a more political route.
“They could have had it anytime they wanted and that includes LONG ago,” he wrote. “ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS ASK.”
As Breitbart News reported, the FBI list of seized documents provided to the Trump team included “Various Classified/TS/SCI documents,” and “Info re: President of France, and an “Executive Grant of Clemency re: Roger Jason Stone, Jr.”
“I was there with President Trump when he said ‘We are declassifying this information,’” former Trump administration official Kash Patel confirmed to the outlet.