Former president Donald Trump reportedly went through multiple boxes of presidential documents himself, The New York Times reported late on Monday evening.
The federal government reportedly recovered a total of 300 classified documents since Mr Trump left the White House, multiple sources told The Times.
Mr Trump has filed his official response to the raid of Mar-a-Lago by FBI agents: A lawsuit demanding that the documents seized by the Justice Department be overseen by a special master.
Judge Bruce Reinhart, who approved the original search warrant, is weighing whether to order the redacted release of an affidavit that led to the authorisation for the search — or whether to keep it sealed completely.
The Justice Department is also speaking out. In a brief statement in response to Mr Trump’s lawsuit, a spokesperson for the agency noted that a judge had agreed that the government had established probable cause to execute a search warrant, and vowed to respond further in court.
