Roy Blunt said Sunday that Trump 'should have turned the documents over,' adding that classified documents should be dealt with carefully.
. FBI agents were able to recover alleged top secret and sensitive compartmentalized information.
On Sunday, the Republican senator also questioned the timing of the FBI search with just a little over two months until the midterms. "What I wonder about is why this could go on for almost two years and less than 100 days before the election, suddenly, we're talking about this rather than the economy or inflation or even the student loan program," Blunt said.
Above, Senator Roy Blunt, a Missouri Republican, talks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol on March 29 in Washington, D.C. Blunt said on Sunday that former President Donald Trump should have turned over"all" the documents before the FBI searched his Mar-a-Lago home earlier this month.
that Trump might have violated the Espionage Act by keeping those documents. Violators of this law could face up to 10 years in prison, a fine, or both.that the ex-president had a"standing order" to declassify documents with sensitive information so he can take it to his house. Former DOJ official, Mary McCord, said that he didn't have the authority to declassify information after leaving office, according to Reuters.
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