According to a report by the Washington Post, the Justice Department and FBI investigators have accumulated additional evidence, pointing to possible obstruction by former President Donald Trump during the investigation into classified documents found in his Florida estate. FBI agents confiscated thousands of government records, some highly classified, from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in August last year. It is one of two criminal inquiries into the former President led by Special Counsel Jack Smith.

One inquiry is focused on whether Trump or anyone linked to him broke the law by having possession of classified documents without authorization. The other inquiry is examining whether the President obstructed justice by taking steps to withhold or destroy these papers.

The new details highlight a significant change in the case's direction, which is progressing towards finding evidence of obstruction. Investigators have evidence indicating that Trump directed others to mislead government officials in early 2022, before the subpoena, when the US National Archives and Records Administration was working to retrieve documents of Trump's presidency. Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing and has described the cases against him as politically motivated.