A US House of Representatives committee has asked the National Archives to review former president Donald Trump's storage unit in Florida and see whether he has kept any more presidential records there, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
House Oversight Committee chair Representative Carolyn Maloney's request, cited in a letter obtained by the Post, comes after reports earlier this month that at least two classified records were found in a storage unit in West Palm Beach by an outside team hired by Mr Trump.
At least two items marked as classified were found in a storage unit in Florida after lawyers for Mr Trump arranged for a firm to search for additional material, according to a previous report from the outlet.
The Washington Post said the items were discovered by an outside team brought in by Mr Trump’s representatives to search his other properties for any additional classified materials.
The nature of the classified materials was not immediately clear, but the storage unit in which they were found in West Palm Beach had been used to hold items from an office in northern Virginia used by Trump staff after he left office, the newspaper said.
The FBI recovered roughly 100 documents marked as classified during an August 8th search of Mr Trump’s Palm Beach estate, Mar-a-Lago, on top of 37 documents bearing classification markings that his lawyers retrieved from the home during a June visit, as well as 15 boxes containing about 184 classified documents recovered in January by the National Archives and Records Administration.
