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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 FBIs dramatic move to execute a search warrant at former president Donald Trumps 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 presidents private club and residence in the waning days of his administration.
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Pinback
(13,614 posts)Drum
(10,721 posts)no_hypocrisy
(55,079 posts)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)here's page 54, here's page 68.............what missing pages?
that's how they figured it out.