WaPo: FBI looked for documents related to nuclear weapons at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

Records that the FBI searched for at former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property included classified documents related to nuclear weapons, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. 

Sources familiar with the investigation told the Post that those documents were among those the FBI sought on Monday, when the bureau executed a search warrant at Trump’s Palm Beach, Fla., residence.

The sources did not say if the nuclear weapons discussed in the documents belonged to the United States or if these documents were recovered. 

The FBI declined to comment, pointing to to Thursday remarks from Attorney General Merrick Garland on the search.

A spokesperson for Trump did not immediately return requests from The Hill for comment, but Trump pushed back on the report on his social media platform Truth Social Thursday.

The Post’s reporting comes after the Justice Department filed a motion on Thursday to request that a Florida court unseal the search warrant executed by the FBI.

“The public’s clear and powerful interest in understanding what occurred under these circumstances weighs heavily in favor of unsealing,” Justice Department lawyers wrote in the court filing submitted on Thursday afternoon.

Several media organizations filed a motion the same day to further request that all documents related to the search warrant be made public. 

The Justice Department motion states that Trump’s attorneys received a list of the documents that the FBI recovered. However, they have not released that list publicly.

Trump’s lawyer, Christina Bobb, said in media appearances this week that the search concerned potentially classified information kept at Mar-a-Lago.

The National Archives and Records Administration reportedly recovered 15 boxes of presidential records from Mar-a-Lago earlier this year, including some containing classified information.

—Updated Friday at 11:11 a.m.