Former President Donald Trump wrote a post on his Truth Social website Wednesday, saying he had to read “through court filings” to find out federal agents seized tax documents and medical records during the Aug. 8 FBI raid on his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago.
“Not only did the FBI steal my Passports in the FBI Raid and Break-In of my home, Mar-a-Lago, but it has just been learned through court filings that they also improperly took my complete and highly confidential medical file and history,” Trump said, claiming that federal agents would view the documents and “at least they’ll see that I’m very healthy, an absolutely perfect physical specimen!”
The former president’s reaction stemmed from U.S. District Judge of the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen M. Cannon‘s Monday order, which revealed the FBI seized medical records as well as documents related to his accounting and tax information among the more than 100 documents with classified markings.
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While Justice Department officials are investigating whether Trump violated the Espionage Act and committed obstruction of justice, according to an unsealed warrant for the August raid, Cannon revealed “medical documents, correspondence related to taxes, and accounting information” were part of the materials seized during the raid last month, according to court filings.
Additionally, a source familiar with the matter said the FBI confiscated 40 years of Trump’s medical records, according to Fox News.
Trump’s response comes amid criticisms from his attorney Chris Kise about so-called Justice Department leaks about the investigation in the media, with the most recent example being a Washington Post report that noted the FBI seized documents that included material containing a description of an unnamed foreign government’s nuclear capabilities.
“Unfortunately, even after the Court noted specifically in its Order that President Trump ‘faces an unquantifiable potential harm by way of improper disclosure of sensitive information to the public’ and asked counsel for the United States directly about leaks, those leaks continue with no respect for the process nor any regard for the real truth,” the attorney told Fox News.
Democratic lawmakers in Congress have long sought Trump’s tax records since at least 2019. Last month, a federal appeals court approved the House Ways and Means Committee’s request to obtain Trump’s tax returns from the IRS. Trump appealed to the full bench of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Aug. 18.
Trump could seek an emergency intervention from the Supreme Court in an attempt to block the release of tax records to the Ways and Means Committee in light of the FBI’s seizure of unspecified tax records. It’s not immediately clear how the department plans to handle the medical records and tax documents, though the FBI had previously seized Trump’s passports and later returned them.
“The United States is examining the opinion and will consider appropriate next steps in the ongoing litigation,” a DOJ spokesperson said after Cannon’s Monday decision.
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Separately, Trump’s legal team revealed in a Sept. 1 court filing that it reached a settlement with the House Oversight Committee and Mazars USA, a major accounting group, regarding an instance where the committee subpoenaed records from the firm. The filing did not reveal details about the settlement agreement.
The Washington Examiner contacted Kise and the DOJ for a response.
