一个衣架或“非常小的螺丝刀”可以用来打开前总统唐纳德·特朗普存放物品的Mar-a-Lago储藏室高度机密的文件据特别顾问杰克·史密斯调查中的一名证人说，已经有一年多了。
根据新公布的证据，该账户是由特朗普的一名身份不明的助手在2023年1月转达给美国联邦调查局特工的，这进一步削弱了特朗普的说法，即他被指控在离任后带走的高度机密材料一直受到保护。
此次采访的文字记录是特朗普和他的共同被告正在进行的努力的一部分，目的是将特别顾问史密斯收集的更多证据公之于众。
目击者告诉调查人员，2021年夏天，储藏室的门上有一个“带针孔”的旋钮，游客可以通过按钮从里面锁定。
“有点像你在家里的住宅门上发现的东西?“一名美国联邦调查局特工问道。
“所以它的一边可能有一把这样的锁，而不是一把钥匙的实际位置，”一名代理人补充说。
“是的，”目击者说。
“——非常小的螺丝刀?”
“嗯嗯，”目击者说。
证人的律师约翰·埃尔文很快补充道，“就像我的孩子把自己锁在浴室里一样。”
“是的，”目击者说。“然后他们会打开它。“
这一发现进一步加剧了史密斯对这些文件存放在马拉拉戈时缺乏安全保障的担忧。在他对特朗普的指控中，他附上了一些照片，显示了俱乐部舞厅和浴室里据信装有机密文件的箱子。
特朗普去年6月被起诉37项刑事指控，这些指控与他离开白宫后处理机密材料有关。检察官表示，他多次拒绝归还数百份包含从美国核机密到国家国防能力等机密信息的文件，并采取措施阻挠政府取回文件的努力。他对所有指控拒不认罪。
A 'coat hanger' could unlock Mar-a-Lago storage room where Trump stored classified docs: Witness
A coat hanger or "very tiny screwdriver" could be used to unlock the Mar-a-Lago storage room where former President Donald Trump storedhighly classified documentsfor more than a year, according to a witness in Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation.
The account was relayed to FBI agents by an unidentified aide to Trump in January 2023, according to newly released exhibits, and further undercuts claims by Trump that the highly-classified materials he's accused of taking with him after leaving office were secured at all times.
The transcript of the interview was released as part of an ongoing effort by Trump and his co-defendants to make additional evidence gathered by Special Counsel Smith public.
Investigators were told by the witness that in summer of 2021 the storage room door had a knob "with a pinhole" that visitors could lock from the inside via a push button.
"Kind of like what you would find on a residential door inside of a home?" an FBI agent asked.
"So it might have a lock like that on one side of it then other side, rather than an actual place for a key," an agent added.
"Yeah," the witness said.
"--very tiny screwdriver?"
"Um-hmm," the witness said.
The witness' lawyer, John Irving, soon added, "Like when my kids lock themselves in the bathroom."
"Yeah," the witness said. "And then they'd pop it open."
The revelation further bolsters concerns raised by Smith about the lack of security surrounding the documents while they were stored in Mar-a-Lago. In his indictment of Trump, he included photos showing boxes believed to have contained classified documents in a ballroom at the club as well as a bathroom.
Trump was indicted last June on 37 criminal counts related to his handling of classified materials after leaving the White House. Prosecutors said he repeatedly refused to return hundreds of documents containing classified information ranging from U.S. nuclear secrets to the nation's defense capabilities and that he took steps to thwart the government's efforts to get the documents back. He pleaded not guilty to all charges.
