Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday compared the FBI to Nazi Germany’s secret police while also suggesting that “Marxist Thugs” were responsible for agents recovering classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
Trump said he kept many of the empty folders marked classified after he left the presidency because “they were ‘cool’ memorabilia,” noting the fact that the FBI also found documents with the highest level of government classification, including material on foreign nukes. secret
“Maybe the Gestapo took some of these empty folders when they raided Mar-a-Lago, and thought they were documents, which they weren’t,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, a social media platform. “It’s also possible that the Trump Hating Marxist Thugs in charge will ‘plant’ the documents when they have the material.”
He added: “I did nothing WRONG. JOE!”
Trump’s comments came just days after revelations that additional classified documents — six pages in total — were found at President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, in December. Biden’s lawyers also found classified material in his garage and former office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, from when he was vice president.
The White House has said It is cooperating with the Justice Department’s investigation into the matter, adding that Biden’s documents “were unintentionally falsified, and the President and his lawyers acted quickly upon discovering this error.”
Trump failed to return more than 100 classified documents to the National Archives and Records Administration after he left the presidency as required by law, leading to a search of his Florida property by federal agents last year.
The former president also used incendiary language Monday when he attacked special counsel Jack Smith, who is investigating Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents and efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, which Biden won.
“This is a Gestapo type operation! Did they do this to the Bidens? I don’t think so!” Trump complains about Social Truth.
Merrick Garland, Biden’s attorney general, last week appointed former U.S. Attorney Robert Hur to investigate classified documents found in Biden’s home and former office.