The FBI returned the documents seized in 2022 to Trump.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) returned to the president USA To Donald Trump, classified documents that were seized in 2022 during a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. This was reported on February 28 by the American magazine Newsweek with reference to sources.

According to the newspaper, the American leader "celebrated" the event.

"President Donald Trump celebrated on Friday [February 28] after the FBI returned boxes of classified documents that were confiscated during the raid at Mar-a-Lago in 2022," the publication says.

At the same time, the FBI declined the magazine's request for comment.

White House Communications Director Stephen Chung, in turn, said that Trump's documents were seized during illegal and illegal raids.

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On September 12, 2022, it became known that The search of Trump's apartment was conducted as part of an investigation into violations of the espionage Act. On August 9 of the same year, the FBI raided Trump's estate amid a Justice Department investigation that he had taken official presidential documents to the Palm Beach estate. Trump said that the estate was "under siege, destroyed and occupied," but did not say the reasons for the search.

In addition, on September 2, 2022, FBI agents, during a search of Trump's house, seized almost href="https://iz.ru/1389699/2022-09-02/vlasti-ssha-opublikovali-rasshirennyi-spisok-iziatykh-u-trampa-veshchei"> hundreds of documents of various levels of secrecy. After that, on September 22, the politician said that all the documents he took from the White House to his estate at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, href="https://iz.ru/1488945/2023-03-26/advokat-trampa-rasskazal-ob-opaseniiakh-byvshego-prezidenta-iz-za-aresta"> he declassified it when he was still president.