Secret Service might be the insider at Mar-a-Lago who reported Trump, according to an ex-Bush senior advisor.

Karl Rove, 71, postulated that a Secret Service agent turned on the former president because they are “sworn law enforcement” and have a duty to disclose if they come into contact with the documents that Trump’s attorneys supposedly claimed weren’t there.

The Secret Service does not have any legal authority over sensitive information, but they are sworn federal law officers and are engaged in law enforcement. This is just my own assumption; I have no further knowledge save the fact that the Secret Service exists. And they have a duty to report a crime,’ he said, according to Fox News.

Particularly when one of the president’s attorneys writes in a letter that “We don’t have any more secret stuff.”

Additionally, he said that the National Archive, which manages secret information, was probably already suspicious when Trump insisted he did not own any sensitive papers since the Archive would be able to determine which documents were there and which ones were absent.

71-year-old Karl Rove proposed the theory that a Secret Service agent revealed Trump because they were “sworn law enforcement” and had a duty to disclose a crime. They are not required by law to handle sensitive information, but they are required to report crimes, he added.

Rove worked as Trump’s campaign manager and George W. Bush’s deputy chief of staff (both may be seen in the photo). He started criticizing Trump following the uprising on January 6

If someone wrote in a letter saying they didn’t have any sensitive information, and a Secret Service agent responded, “I have seen classified material still in the walls of Mar-a-Lago,” and that agent was required to send that information up the chain of command…

Someone would have basically informed them: “You have been deceived, whether it was a purposeful lie or a lie born out of ignorance, someone told you there’s no more secret stuff here – there is classified material here,” he told Fox News.

It is beyond me, according to Rove, why Trump would save these documents “when he has no legal power to do so under the Presidential Records Act.”

He said, “The Presidential Records Act is quite obvious.” A president does not have the authority to take just certain papers with him when he leaves the White House.

“He may request copies, but they are the property of the American people, and no president has been allowed to kind of pick and choose their own records since 1978,” the statement reads.

Trump was initially contacted by the National Archive on the materials in May 2021. In response, Trump’s legal team said that 12 boxes will be taken out later in the year.

But when the removal crew arrived, they took 15 cartons altogether. According to the affidavit, the boxes included “184 distinct papers with classification marking,” including 25 documents with the top-secret designation.

A highly redacted document that reveals the government’s grounds for the August raid on Mar-a-Lago was made public by the Department of Justice on Friday. The statement includes a detailed accounting of the volume of sensitive material that was kept at the exclusive club for more than a year.

Authorities searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence on August 8 and discovered 15 boxes of paperwork containing 184 files, 25 of which were labelled top secret.

Additionally, Rove said that the National Archive, which handles sensitive information, was probably already on edge when Trump insisted he lacked the necessary paperwork. Trump’s attorney said they had no records, but Rove asserted that the Archive would be aware of how many were there and how many were absent.

In the affidavit, classification marks are described that agents saw following a protracted correspondence dispute with Trump’s attorneys to get access to the 15 boxes of documents.

Agents spotted papers with the markings “HCS, FISA, ORCON, NORORN, and SI,” according to a “preliminary triage.” Each acronym refers to a particular kind of information that the government must be protected in a certain manner.

The declaration also shows that the document included “handwritten notes” that were written by the president.

President Trump has said that all they had to do was ask on several occasions. My impression is that they requested a year and a half,’ the former Trump campaign employee claimed on Fox.

Following the uprising on January 6, Rove, who had previously supported Trump, said the affidavit didn’t make it apparent how often the government had urged the former president to return the records.

We should question the administration how many times they requested the return of the material since President Trump has said on several occasions that all they had to do was ask.

Trump said earlier this week that he intends to file a court action in response to the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago in early August, alleging that his Fourth Amendment rights were violated.

According to the Fourth Amendment, a house search is only permitted when there is a valid purpose for it.

Last week, when law enforcement confiscated the boxes of secret documents he reportedly took with him after leaving office, the former president denounced the invasion of his Florida residence in a series of tweets on Truth Social.

Trump wrote: “There has never been a period in the history of our Country when law enforcement has gotten so aggressively and brutally engaged in the lives and times of politics in our Nation.”