As Trump headed to Mar-a-Lago in Florida on Friday night, boxes were spotted being loaded onto the plane.
The White House said in a statement they were the boxes seized from his Florida resort in 2022 by the FBI.
"The FBl is giving the President his property back that was taken during the unlawful and illegal raids. We are taking possession of the boxes today and loading them onto Air Force One," said Steven Cheung, White House communications director.
The FBI executed a search warrant for potentially classified material at Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, coming away with 20 boxes. The New York Times reported at the time that more than 300 classified documents kept at the resort were recovered by the government.
Trump was indicted on 37 criminal charges in connection to allegedly mishandling classified documents, and the case was later dismissed.
"The Department of Justice has just returned the boxes that Deranged Jack Smith made such a big deal about," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday. "They are being brought down to Florida and will someday be part of the Trump Presidential Library. Justice finally won out. I did absolutely nothing wrong. This was merely an attack on a political opponent that, obviously, did not work well. Justice in our Country will now be restored."
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