Former President Trump's team is decrying leaks about the government's investigation and search for documents at his Florida resort following a report that FBI agents found a document about a foreign country's nuclear capabilities.
A lawyer for Trump, Christopher Kise, told The Washington Post for a story Tuesday evening that such leaks "continue with no respect for the process nor any regard for the real truth. This does not serve well the interests of justice."
The lawyer warned about public confidence in the system being corroded and called for "someone — anyone — in the Government to exercise leadership and control."
The statement came in response to new reporting from The Post this week that FBI agents found a document detailing a foreign nation's nuclear capabilities and other defenses. The foreign government was not identified.
The reported discovery adds to scrutiny over the types of documents being kept at the president's home and how they got there, even as a judge's decision to allow for an independent reviewer promises to shake up the probe into the former president's handling of classified documents.
Trump had pushed back last month following another report from the newspaper that said the FBI was searching for classified nuclear documents, among other materials, in its raid at the former president's Mar-a-Lago resort.
"Nuclear weapons issue is a Hoax, just like Russia, Russia, Russia was a Hoax, two Impeachments were a Hoax, the Mueller investigation was a Hoax, and much more," Trump wrote on his website Truth Social on Aug. 12.
Trump has continued to rail against the FBI and its probe in a series of statements and posts on his website this week, predicting "this Hoax will fail miserably" and insisting "[a]ll American Patriots know that I always do everything 'by the book.'"
You can read the full inventory of documents that the FBI found here via The Hill.
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