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applegrove

(132,594 posts)
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 09:21 PM Aug 2022

Feds Suspected Trump and Aides Withheld Items

Feds Suspected Trump and Aides Withheld Items

August 9, 2022 at 5:37 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 53 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/08/09/feds-suspected-trump-and-aides-withheld-items/

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“In the months before the FBI’s dramatic move to execute a search warrant at former president Donald Trump’s Florida home — and open his safe to look for items — federal authorities grew increasingly concerned that Trump or his lawyers and aides had not, in fact, returned all the documents and other material that were government property,” the Washington Post reports.

“Officials became suspicious that when Trump gave back items to the National Archives about seven months ago, either the former president or people close to him held on to key records — despite a Justice Department investigation into the handling of 15 boxes of material sent to the former president’s private club and residence in the waning days of his administration.”

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Feds Suspected Trump and Aides Withheld Items (Original Post) applegrove Aug 2022 OP
By the way, where's that bust of Lincoln? Pinback Aug 2022 #1
Trump is the person that steals everything from the hotel room, and so are his peeps Drum Aug 2022 #2
So stupid and arrogant on Trump's part. no_hypocrisy Aug 2022 #3
"Here's page 8, here's page 9, onethatcares Aug 2022 #4

no_hypocrisy

(55,079 posts)
3. So stupid and arrogant on Trump's part.
Wed Aug 10, 2022, 05:59 AM
Aug 2022

National Archives *knew* what was missing and the documents were not turned over to them. Extrapolation as the documents existed and only Trump would have them (unless they were destroyed).

onethatcares

(17,002 posts)
4. "Here's page 8, here's page 9,
Wed Aug 10, 2022, 11:07 AM
Aug 2022

here's page 54, here's page 68.............what missing pages?

that's how they figured it out.

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