US President Donald Trump announced on Friday that boxes of classified documents seized by the FBI from his Mar-a-Lago estate during a high-profile investigation have now been returned to him.
He further stated that these documents would eventually be displayed in his presidential library.
The boxes, which contained highly sensitive government records, were at the centre of a legal case against Trump over allegations that he unlawfully took them from the White House at the end of his first term.
According to Trump, the Justice Department—now led by officials appointed by his administration—had returned the materials.
The department “just returned the boxes that Deranged Jack Smith made such a big deal about,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform, referring to the special counsel who had been overseeing the case.
He added that the documents were being transported back to Florida and would one day be included in the Trump Presidential Library. However, he did not specify whether all the original documents had been returned in full.
Trump reiterated his stance that he had done absolutely nothing wrong and maintained that the case against him was politically motivated.
The FBI had raided Mar-a-Lago in 2022 to retrieve the classified materials, which special counsel Smith alleged had been deliberately concealed at the Florida estate after Trump left office in 2021.
Photographs from the investigation revealed top-secret documents—including sensitive records from the Pentagon and CIA—stored in unsecured locations, including a bathroom within the club.
Trump was accused of obstructing multiple attempts by Joe Biden’s administration to reclaim the materials. The legal proceedings were still ongoing when Trump was sworn in for a second term on January 20.
Nine days after Trump returned to the White House, Smith dropped the case, citing a Justice Department policy that prohibits the indictment or prosecution of a sitting president. He subsequently resigned from his position.
