The item was discovered in mid-January, sources tell ABC News.
Former President Donald Trump’s legal team turned over a folder with classification markings found last month at his Mar-a-Lago resort to federal agents, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News.
It is unclear what type of classification markings the folder had or what material had previously been inside.
Additionally, sources tell ABC News that a laptop belonging to a current aide of the former president was also provided to federal agents.
Sources said the discovery occurred in mid-January as Trump’s team was searching through additional boxes amid the Department of Justice’s ongoing efforts to have Trump’s attorneys verify that Trump no longer still has classified documents in his possession.
The material was discovered in the Mar-a-Lago complex, and not in a storage facility within the complex that housed hundreds of classified documents prior to them being seized in August 2022, the sources said.
During the August search, investigators seized 46 folders with classified banners that were empty.
Trump attorney James Trusty turned over the folder with classification markings to federal investigators, and also informed agents that it had been electronically copied to a laptop of a current Trump aide, the sources said.
ABC News has also learned that after the information was recovered, federal agents retrieved the laptop from the aide. The laptop was not retrieved on the Mar-a-Lago grounds, the sources said.
“It is customary in circumstances such as this for investigators to search the computer to see if classified material is still on that computer,” said John Cohen, former acting undersecretary for intelligence at the Department of Homeland Security and now an ABC News contributor. “They will also seek to determine if classified material was transmitted electronically to other computers or devices via that computer.”
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CBS News has confirmed that Trump's lawyers have turned over newly discovered, marked classified material — described as a folder — found at Mar-a-Lago last month, per 2 people familiar w/ the exchange. Confirming @KFaulders @Santucci report. https://t.co/DLdVy4XIrv
— Robert Costa (@costareports) February 10, 2023
Eventually in this mishandling catastrophe, Trump’s going to give the FBI consent to search Bedminster and Trump Tower, right?
Like Biden and Pence did?
Like law abiding citizens do?
Or at least the media will note the radical difference in behavior? https://t.co/tMUdOQqvgq
— Pete Strzok (@petestrzok) February 11, 2023
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