Former President Donald Trump on Monday suggested that the FBI intentionally "stole" his three passports even though the Justice Department returned them after finding the documents among the boxes of materials seized from Mar-a-Lago.
Trump and his allies have offered shifting defenses for the top-secret documents found at Trump's Palm Beach home, suggesting that the FBI may have "planted" evidence during the raid before moving away from that narrative to push claims that Trump issued a standing order declassifying documents that his national security adviser was completely unaware of existing and that the former president could declassify documents just by "standing over" them and saying they're declassified. For the most part, Trump and his allies have focused on attacking the FBI and DOJ, accusing them of political persecution.
