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Politics
Igor Derysh

Trump worried allies "wearing a wire"

Donald Trump surrounded by piles and piles of documents (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Former President Donald Trump is increasingly paranoid about his inner circle after reports revealed that someone on the inside tipped off investigators about classified documents he kept at Mar-a-Lago.

The FBI on Monday executed a search warrant at Trump's residence at the Palm Beach resort, removing about a dozen boxes of materials that may include classified documents. Someone "familiar with the stored papers" told investigators there may still be more classified documents at the club two months before the raid, according to The Wall Street Journal, though investigators were already suspicious that Trump did not turn over all classified material when the National Archives retrieved 15 boxes earlier this year. Newsweek reported that the raid was "based largely on information from an FBI confidential human source" who was able to identify what documents Trump was still hiding and where they were.

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