Court files show evidence Trump handled records marked classified after presidency
This just is sickening and it goes on and on and on.
Court files show evidence Trump handled records marked classified after presidency
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Story by Hugo Lowell • Sunday
The former US president kept in the desk drawer of his office at the Mar-a-Lago property one document marked “secret” and one marked “confidential” alongside three communications from a book author, a religious leader and a pollster, dated after he departed the White House.
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The mixed records could amount to evidence that Trump wilfully retained documents marked classified when he was no longer president as the justice department investigates unauthorised possession of national security materials, concealment of government records, and obstruction.
The classification status of the two documents is in dispute after Trump claimed that all documents at Mar-a-Lago had been declassified before he left office, though no such evidence has emerged and his lawyers have not repeated it in court.
New details about the commingled documents came in a eight-page filing submitted by the US attorney for the southern district of Florida, Juan Antonio Gonzalez, on Saturday to Raymond Dearie, the special master examining whether the 103 documents seized by the FBI should be excluded from the evidence cache.......................
