Some legal experts call her involvement damning. Almost everyone agrees that the classified documents case led by special counsel Jack Smith will feature her as a critical witness intended to incriminate the 45th president.
Donald Trump’s longtime personal secretary, Molly Michael, has become a central figure in the classified documents case after her comments following the FBI’s search at Mar-a-Lago.
Michael quit her job shortly after the execution of the warrant, telling investigators she felt “uncomfortable” with Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents and his responses to National Archives requests for presidential records over an 18-month period after he left office.
According to details first published by ABC News, Michael even gave FBI agents documents she found.
ABC News’ Katherine Faulders, Mike Levine and Alexander Mallin have more:
As described to ABC News, the aide, Molly Michael, told investigators that — more than once — she received requests or taskings from Trump that were written on the back of notecards, and she later recognized those notecards as sensitive White House materials — with visible classification markings — used to brief Trump while he was still in office about phone calls with foreign leaders or other international-related matters.
The notecards with classification markings were at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate when FBI agents searched the property on Aug. 8, 2022 — but the materials were not taken by the FBI, according to sources familiar with what Michael told investigators.
When Michael, who was not present for the search, returned to Mar-a-Lago the next day to clean up her office space, she found the documents underneath a drawer organizer and helped transfer them to the FBI that same day, sources told ABC News.
The sources said Michael also told federal investigators that last year she grew increasingly concerned with how Trump handled recurring requests from the National Archives for the return of all government documents being kept in boxes at Mar-a-Lago — and she felt that Trump’s claims about it at the time would be easy to disprove, according to the sources.
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It’s not sensitive classified information since he declassified it all.
Rigged day1 & Trump did not classify documents