FBI Director Kash Patel disclosed that a cache of documents related to the Russia probe had been found in a bureau secret room, hidden away in “burn bags.”

The FBI official told the Daily Mail that the records include the classified annexe to former Special Counsel John Durham’s final report on the beginnings of the FBI investigation into Donald Trump’s initial campaign, which includes the underlying intelligence he reviewed.

Durham looked into the FBI’s investigation into any connections between Trump campaign officials and Russia during the 2016 election and came to the conclusion that, given the information available at the time, the FBI shouldn’t have started the inquiry.

A source with knowledge of the finding told the Daily Mail that the documents were probably saved from destruction due to a mistake made by earlier directors.

The individual went on to say that if the FBI hadn’t been methodically going through everything it encounters at the bureau, it’s probable that the records would never have been spotted.

According to the FBI spokeswoman, the results will be made public later on Wednesday after being sent to Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the head of the Judiciary Committee.

According to President Trump, he was in favour of the information being made public.

“I want everything to be shown, as long as it is fair and reasonable,” he said.

“I would like to see people exposed that might be bad, and we’ll see how that all works out,” he told reporters at the White House.

But if the FBI had something, “they would have released it,” the president remarked.

He reiterated his long-standing accusation that Democrats were responsible.

“The whole thing is a scam. It is a scam set up by the Democrats,” Trump said.

Fox News was the first to report on the discovery.

A ‘burn bag’ is a safe container that government organisations employ to destroy sensitive or classified documents, usually by shredding or burning them to keep unwanted access at bay.

Once one of the FBI’s most outspoken critics, Patel has begun reorganising the agency, which includes reassigning some top agents and terminating others.

He pledged a “wave of transparency” at the start of his term, especially on the probe into potential connections between the Trump campaign in 2016 and Russia.

Known as ‘Crossfire Hurricane,’ the FBI conducted a counterintelligence investigation into any connections between Russia and Trump’s initial presidential campaign.

According to Durham’s report, the inquiry was “seriously flawed,” but no proof of criminal activity was found.

Additionally, his study refuted Trump’s assertion that special counsel Robert Mueller’s report was a “hoax” or a “witch hunt.”

Mueller’s report found the FBI investigation “did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities,” but it did find Russian interference in the 2016 contest that it claimed benefitted Trump.

In contrast, Trump has frequently asserted that the FBI’s investigation into the 2016 election was a witch hunt.

Throughout the federal government, his devoted followers have been looking for proof to corroborate his assertion.

In an interview with podcast host Joe Rogan in June, Patel claimed to have discovered a room filled with computer hard drives and documents “that no one had ever seen or heard of.”

“Just think about this,” Patel told Rogan. “Me, as director of the FBI, the former ‘Russiagate guy,’ when I first got to the bureau, found a room that [former FBI director James] Comey and others hid from the world in the Hoover Building, full of documents and computer hard drives that no one had ever seen or heard of. Locked the key and hid access and just said, ‘No one’s ever gonna find this place.”

Since then, Patel and his team have been going over the documents.

Additional Trump officials are coming forward with information related to the election of 2016.

Trump’s head of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, said last week that Russian President Vladimir Putin has classified material about Hillary Clinton and intended to use it against her when she was president.

She asserted that intelligence reports for the government showed that Russia genuinely desired a Clinton win in 2016.

“This report shows Putin … held back from leaking compromising material on Hillary Clinton prior to the election, instead planning to release it after the election,” Gabbard said.

“The intelligence community intentionally suppressed intelligence that showed Putin was saving the most damaging material that he had in his possession about Hillary Clinton until after her potential and likely victory,” she noted.