Former FBI official Peter Strzok said in an interview that foreign intelligence services in countries, including Russia, have been “absolutely” interested in gaining access to information collected on former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate. , Mar-a-Lago.
Strzok’s comments come after the FBI raided the property earlier this month as part of an investigation into whether Trump potentially mishandled classified information that he took with him after leaving the White House last year.
A search warrant revealed that agents seized items, including top secret documents, from the property on August 8.
During your In an MSNBC interview, host Katie Phang asked Strzok if he thinks there’s a chance the Russians may have been interested and “possibly tried to infiltrate” Mar-a-Lago to get classified information.
“Well, Katie, absolutely the Russians, but not only the Russians, any competent foreign intelligence service, whether they belong to China, those to Iran, to Cuba, certainly including Russia, is n all…interested in gaining access to Mar-a-Lago,” Strzok responded.
Strzok added: “What is especially worrying at the moment is some of the information that is emerging about the complete lack of any kind of control or commemoration of who had access to Mar -a-Lago at one point, particularly in the context of the fact that it appears that classified documents were scattered throughout the facility.”
Strzok was fired from the FBI after text messages from 2016 were published revealing anti-Trump comments between him and FBI attorney Lisa Page. He has remained a critic of the former president and published a book in 2020 entitled Compromised: counterintelligence and the threat of Donald J. Trump.
During his interview,
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