The White House on Monday signaled its approval of an intelligence community effort to perform a “damage assessment” on former President Donald Trump’s storage of classified documents at his Florida estate, but stressed that President Joe Biden was “not involved” in the task.
“It is an appropriate action for the director in the intelligence community to undertake, but, again, I’ll let them speak to the details of this,” National Security Council (NSC) spokesman John Kirby told reporters, according to the Washington Examiner. He previously insisted that the NSC was not prepared to perform the assessment itself.
Kirby’s comments follow the public release of a heavily-redacted affidavit that accompanied the search warrant the FBI used to conduct its raid on Mar-a-Lago. The warrant application relied heavily on media reports, including a CBS Miami article about moving trucks at the estate and a Breitbart News article in which former Trump adviser Kash Patel […]
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