The list of seized materials has now been unsealed by a US court.
The search of Trump’s estate on 8 August found the following documents in his personal office:
According to US law, upon leaving office the president must transfer all his or her documents to the US National Archives.
The documents released by the court on Friday reveal many classified documents were “intermixed” with personal effects, such as photographs, clothing, and newspaper clippings.
The FBI and Department of Justice are investigating whether Trump improperly handled records after he left office in January 2021.
Trump and his lawyers claim that all documents in his possession had already been declassified by the president.
In total, authories retrieved around 1,500 documents from Mar-a-Lago.
In a separate development, lawyers for the former president are pressing for an outside legal expert to be allowed to review the seized documents. A decision on their request is expected on Thursday.
