These diagrams show the rooms at Donald J. Trump’s residence where prosecutors say he kept sensitive government documents.
www.nytimes.com
In April 2021, Mr. Trump’s employees moved dozens of boxes from an area at Mar-a-Lago referred to in the indictment as the business center to a bathroom in what is known as the
Lake Room.
“There is still a little room in the shower where his other stuff is,” one employee texted another, according to the indictment.
In May 2021, according to the indictment, Mr. Trump directed his employees to clear space in a
storage room to keep the boxes of documents he took from the White House. In June, boxes stored in the
Lake Room were moved into the
storage room, bringing the total number of boxes in that room to more than 80.
The hallway leading to the
storage room was connected to a pool patio, where Mar-a-Lago club members had access, via “a doorway that was often kept open,” prosecutors said.
In December 2021, Walt Nauta, a personal aide
who was indicted along with Mr. Trump, texted one of Mr. Trump’s employees a photograph of documents, including at least one bearing a classification marking, spilled onto the floor of the storage room. “Oh no oh no,” the employee replied.
For about two months, between January and March 2021, some documents were stored on a stage in the
White and Gold Ballroom — a lavish event space rented out for weddings and private events — before being reshuffled to the business center and storage room.
In November 2021, Mr. Trump ordered that some boxes be brought from the storage room up to his residence for him to review. Some of these were kept in
Pine Hall, an entry room to the
Trump family suite.
When F.B.I. officials searched Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, they found 27 classified documents in
Mr. Trump’s office, including six with the highest level of classification.
Trump also took boxes of documents to his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., according to the indictment. It was there that Mr. Trump
was recorded saying he knew he had a classified document.
