Trump ordered a worker to hide the boxes with classified information in his Mar-a-Lago residence

MADRID, 13 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

A worker for former US President Donald Trump has confessed to the FBI that he was asked by him to hide boxes with classified information in his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida after the Justice Department cited the former president in May for illegal possession of documents governmental.

The employee in charge of Trump removed the boxes with classified documents of national interest from a deposit in a basement and moved them to the Mar-a-Lago residence, facts corroborated by the recordings of security cameras to which the Trump has had access. FBI, as reported by the newspaper 'The Washington Post'.

The order came moments after Trump's legal team received a subpoena from the United States Department of Justice for the former president to confess to the location of said documents, among which were state secrets or even information on the defense of others. countries.

This testimony would suggest an effort to hide the documents from the US government by Trump despite the efforts of the National Archives and Records Administration and the Department of Justice to request cooperation from the former US president.

However, the employee who has confessed the information to the FBI worked at the tycoon's residence in Florida and was required by federal agents on several occasions.

In a first interview, he flatly denied having handled sensitive documents or the boxes that could contain said documents. However, as they collected evidence, the agents decided to interview the witness again, who finally confessed to having moved boxes at Trump's request, according to 'The Washington Post'.

The witness has become a key player in the investigation into the classified documents seized from Trump, after his failed attempt to appoint a special expert to review the documents and thus delay the Justice Department's investigation.

On August 8, a group of FBI agents broke into the luxurious mansion of former President Trump in Palm Beach, Florida, taking around twenty boxes full of folders with classified documentation, some of them with the top secret label.

Among the documents that FBI agents collected during the raid on the Mar-a-Lago residence last month, some confidential files have been found that would even describe the military defenses of a foreign government, including its nuclear capabilities.