Trump's Bedminster-Bound Mystery Boxes Raise New Secret Document Suspicions

As many as nine boxes that Donald Trump s aides hauled from his home in Florida this year to his New Jersey resort are raising new questions about the ex-presidents hoarding of secret government documents.

Video published May 9 by the Trump-friendly Daily Mail with an article about Trump decamping from Mar-a-Lago in the hot weather and settling in at Bedminster, New Jersey, for the summer shows aides loading boxes onto a private plane ferrying Trump. The cartons appear similar to those that FBI agents confiscated at Mar-a-Lago in August with a search warrant.

Better check Bedminster, former FBI official Peter Strozok tweeted last month as the video made the rounds on social media.

On May 9, Trump gets on a private plane from Palm Beach to Bedminster. On video, several boxes are seen loaded onto the plane, Strozok added.

The Department of Justice issued a subpoena for documents at Mar-a-Lago in early May . The FBI searched the resort and recovered a trove of classified documents and other government records on Aug. 8.

The National Archives, the custodian of government records, has said it believes members of Trumps administration still have failed to turn over documents and electronic records. The agency hasnt said its satisfied that everything has been recovered from Trump.

Better check Bedminster

On May 6, NARA emails Trump to say material is missing and may be at MAL.https://t.co/XbEWvl9WdX

On May 9, Trump gets on a private plane from Palm Beach to Bedminster. On video, several boxes are seen loaded onto the plane. https://t.co/ZoiRY5bISx pic.twitter.com/JPd9BalcrH

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Better check Bedminster

On May 6, NARA emails Trump to say material is missing and may be at MAL.https://t.co/XbEWvl9WdX

On May 9, Trump gets on a private plane from Palm Beach to Bedminster. On video, several boxes are seen loaded onto the plane. https://t.co/ZoiRY5bISx pic.twitter.com/JPd9BalcrH
Peter Strzok (@petestrzok) September 10, 2022

Type/brand of box look familiar?

(h/t @the_peetape for noting) pic.twitter.com/bFUbhsV23T

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Type/brand of box look familiar?

(h/t @the_peetape for noting) pic.twitter.com/bFUbhsV23T
Peter Strzok (@petestrzok) September 10, 2022

Trumps former White House valet , who now works at Mar-a-Lago, has told the FBI that the former president ordered him to move document boxes at Mar-a-Lago after the Justice Department issued the May subpoena to recover the files, sources told The Washington Post .

Bedminster has not been searched by the FBI nor has Trump Tower in Manhattan, where a lobby bar brazenly displays a folder marked classified and a Situation Room brochure.

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MSNBC opinion columnist Hayes Brown suggested earlier this week that Bedminster seems like a strong possibility as a hiding place for Trump to stash documents.

The Bedminster golf course has been the subject of speculation for weeks now, based on video recorded days after the National Archives first reached out to Trump to say some documents were still missing, Brown noted.

Trumps pattern of behavior throughout this investigation should make it clear that there is probable cause to search Bedminster for any documents he continues to sequester, added Brown.