Democrat alleges Trump ‘sold out’ US security in classified documents case

Jamie Raskin, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, has issued a letter to United States Attorney General Pam Bondi raising concerns about the classified documents President Donald Trump kept in his possession when he was out of office.

Those documents were the subject of a 2023 criminal indictment against Trump, which accused him of withholding and concealing government records despite official requests to return them.
The criminal charges were dropped before Trump’s return to office in 2025. But Trump has condemned the indictment as politically motivated, and Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee have sought to publish the investigative records related to it.

On Wednesday, however, Raskin argued in his letter that the newly released records raise further questions about the legality of Trump’s actions.

“These new disclosures suggest that Donald Trump stole documents so sensitive that only six people in the entire U.S. government had access to them,” Raskin wrote.

Other revelations, Raskin added, suggest Trump may have retained classified documents related to his business interests and that he may have shown a classified map to passengers on a private plane.

“This glimpse into the trove of evidence behind the coverup reveals a President of the United States who may have sold out our national security to enrich himself,” Raskin said.

He called for Bondi to answer a suite of questions by March 31 and to release the remaining investigative files by April 14.

The Department of Justice quickly responded by accusing Raskin of being “blinded by hatred of President Trump”.