In 2018, Donald Trump committed the crime of mishandling classified documents

It was unclear on Monday why the FBI and Justice Department felt the urgent need to raid former President Donald Trump's club

but according to reports :

Trump kept the documents that were to be handed over to The National. Archive.

• Any type of potential criminal activity considered by the Ministry of 

• Justice can be speculated only because of the absence of information.

• Strangely, as Tennessee Senator Jeff Yarbrough (D-Md.) noted

A clause tightening penalties for intentionally taking confidential data with the intention of keeping it in an "unauthorized place" was repealed in a bill Trump signed into law in January 2018.

Previously, the person convicted of this offence faced a maximum penalty of one year's imprisonment. 

According to Politico :

when former CIA Director David Petraeus was accused of handling classified information in 2015, he pleaded guilty under this clause to avoid criminal punishment. 

When former National Security Adviser Samuel Berger admitted to removing terrorism-related files from the National Archives in 2005, the same scenario occurred ten years ago.

Trump claims officers opened a safe during Monday's search, although it is unclear exactly what documents the FBI

•  was looking for or why he took action. However

• others with knowledge of the situation allege that it is linked to

• the Justice Department's investigation into

The Ministry of Justice had to convince the judge that there was a possible cause for a crime in order to obtain a search warrant, however, it is not clear what legislation they believe has been broken.

Many federal laws require the preservation of state secrets. 

It is illegal to remove confidential information and keep it in an unauthorized place

according to one of the potentially applicable laws.

 Another makes it illegal to transfer national defence materials, including documents, maps and photographs, to a person who is not authorized to receive them.

However, if the record refers to anything, even handling confidential information incorrectly may not always be the basis for a criminal conviction or even bringing charges at all.