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<p>When the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-facing-unprecedented-maga-threats-after-trump-mar-a-lago-raid">FBI</a> searched <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-fbis-search-of-mar-a-lago-is-a-reminder-that-trump-has-always-been-a-national-security-threat">former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence</a> earlier this month, they didn’t find a smoking gun, but they did find some smoldering passports.</p>
<p>On August 8, agents removed from Trump’s home <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22272789/doj-response-to-trump-special-master.pdf">33 boxes</a> of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/feds-release-donald-trump-mar-a-lago-search-warrant-affidavit">sensitive government documents</a>, including more than 100 records classified at the highest levels. In a <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22272789/doj-response-to-trump-special-master.pdf">36-page brief</a> responding to <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/justice-department-is-right-to-resist-putting-a-special-master-on-the-trump-classified-docs-investigation?ref=author">Trump’s motion to appoint a special master to review the material seized by the FBI</a>, the Justice Department explained that three of the classified documents were recovered from Trump’s private office, known as “the 45 Office.”</p>
<p>According to DOJ’s recent brief, classified documents in that office were “commingled” in a desk drawer with three passports. While the government did not disclose the name on the passports, <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-fbi-took-passports-183550682.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIcHHd3_nkFU3qqjEgx_vkOg8LGPr4HTPt-BHIiYg3LhRXbcGj54S3vBx85l_VIWfPOpftoQOkrGRNgo0W6Jd1fTEQhlX9ldCG6xUkjYfMvPTtCWqiFoR0na9x2BoMuqMGKq4_-tWYP8dLMBDj46pbLHOAbqA4N5dTFCtQcDH5b4">Trump himself has complained</a> that during the search, the FBI “stole” his three passports. It seems a safe bet that the passports DOJ recovered were Trump’s.</p>
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According to DOJ’s recent brief, classified documents in that office were “commingled” in a desk drawer with three passports. While the government did not disclose the name on the passports, Trump himself has complained that during the search, the FBI “stole” his three passports. It seems a safe bet that the passports DOJ recovered were Trump’s.
