The Washington Post reported on Friday that the classified documents found from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club contained information regarding Iran’s missile development and intelligence activity aimed at China.
Experts warned The Post that if this material leaked, those assisting U.S. intelligence efforts may be put in danger and collecting methods could be revealed.
The U.S. may possibly risk reprisal from its adversaries.
According to sources cited by The Post, the classified documents pertaining to Iran and China were among the most sensitive discovered by the FBI on August 8.
The Washington Post reported on Friday that the classified documents found from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club contained information regarding Iran’s missile development and intelligence activity aimed at China.
More than 300 of the discovered documents were classified.
Trump has offered several explanations for how the material reached his Palm Beach, Florida, members-only club and residence.
The former president stated, among other things, that a president may declassify information just by thinking about it.
Trump has asserted that ‘no previous president has been tormented and punished as we have,’ while erroneously claiming that former presidents stole vast quantities of information.