- Trump released a statement amid reports suggesting he took nuclear documents from the White House.
- He baselessly accused Obama of keeping classified documents, “lots” of which “pertained to nuclear.”
- Trump’s statement notably did not deny reports that he took top-secret documents to Mar-a-Lago.
In a statement released Friday, former President Donald Trump didn’t deny a Washington Post report that said the FBI searched his Mar-a-Lago home for classified documents with information about nuclear weapons.
Instead, he again attacked former President Barack Obama, baselessly accusing him of illegally keeping classified documents.
“President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified,” Trump said. “How many of them pertained to nuclear? Word is, lots!”
Asked whether Trump’s statement appeared to confirm that nuclear documents were uncovered in the Mar-a-Lago raid, a former Justice Department official replied, “Sounds like it.”