classified information in the women's restroom and said it was a 'known thing' that aides were sloppy with documents.
Former Trump staffer Olivia Troye recalled finding classified documents left in the women's room of a bathroom in the White House complex during her time working under Vice President Mike pence
'I found classified information in the ladies' room of the White House one time in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building,' she said on MSNBC Friday. 'And I immediately walked it right up to security and said, "I just found this in the bathroom.
'I covered it up, I put it in a folder. It wasn't marked properly,' she continued. 'I was not expecting to walk into the ladies' room and find a document like that.'
Troye quit the administration in September 2020 over former President Donald Trump's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, having served alongside Pence on the White House's coronavirus taskforce. She then publicly endorsed Democratic President Joe Biden.
In a follow-up interview Sunday on MSNBC, Troye characterized members of the previous administration as being sloppy with classified documents.
'I'm gonna tell you, look, it is a known thing. People would carry documents around, especially political appointees, around and traditionally you would put it in a pouch and you would secure it and you would lock the pouch and then carry it,' she said.
'It doesn't matter what it says. What it actually contains,' she continued.
'The bottom line is that that information is stored and should be carried properly and secured because it can put lives at risk - if that information gets into the wrong hands,' the former Pence official added.
Since last Monday's raid, Trump has deployed excuses for why the material was stored at his former home and club and attacked those involved in the raid.
'Wow! In the raid by the FBI of Mar-a-Lago, they stole my three Passports (one expired), along with everything else,' Trump claimed Monday. 'This is an assault on a political opponent at a level never seen before in our Country. Third World!'