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Trump kept
hundreds of classified documents after leaving White House: report
Despite
rules requiring outgoing presidents to turn their materials over to the
National Archives, the US government has retrieved more than 300 classified
documents from Donald Trump since he left office, beginning with an initial 150
recovered in January, The New York Times reports.
The initial
release of documents alarmed the justice department, which feared that the
former president may have retained secrets that should have been sent to the
government after his departure from the White House. It also laid the
groundwork for the FBI’s search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort earlier this
month, where they turned up even more sensitive materials.
Since he
left the White House, the report says government record keepers have been
concerned about the whereabouts of the several documents from the Trump
administration, including a note Barack Obama left his successor, and letters
from North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong-un. Those concerns eventually grew into
the national security investigation that led to the FBI’s search.
Here’s more
from Times’ report:
The extent
to which such a large number of highly sensitive documents remained at
Mar-a-Lago for months, even as the department sought the return of all material
that should have been left in government custody when Mr. Trump left office,
suggested to officials that the former president or his aides had been cavalier
in handling it, not fully forthcoming with investigators, or both.
The
specific nature of the sensitive material that Mr. Trump took from the White
House remains unclear. But the 15 boxes Mr. Trump turned over to the archives
in January, nearly a year after he left office, included documents from the
C.I.A., the National Security Agency and the F.B.I. spanning a variety of
topics of national security interest, a person briefed on the matter said.
Mr. Trump
went through the boxes himself in late 2021, according to multiple people
briefed on his efforts, before turning them over.
The highly
sensitive nature of some of the material in the boxes prompted archives
officials to refer the matter to the Justice Department, which within months
had convened a grand jury investigation.
Aides to
Mr. Trump turned over a few dozen additional sensitive documents during a visit
to Mar-a-Lago by Justice Department officials in early June. At the conclusion
of the search this month, officials left with 26 boxes, including 11 sets of
material marked as classified, comprising scores of additional documents. One
set had the highest level of classification, top secret/sensitive compartmented
information.
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In other
Florida news, voters are casting primary ballots as Democrats look ahead to
November, where they’ll mount a challenge to governor and potential Republican
presidential candidate Ron DeSantis. Joan E Greve has the latest on what to
expect from today’s polls:
Florida
voters will head to the polls on Tuesday to determine which candidates will
have the chance to face off in this November’s general election. Voters will
cast ballots in races for the governorship and Congress, all the way down to
circuit courts and local school boards.
Democrats
are competing to run against the state’s governor, Ron DeSantis, and US senator
Marco Rubio, both of whom are considered potential Republican presidential
candidates for 2024. On the House side, a new congressional map drawn by
DeSantis is expected to give Republicans a hefty advantage in the November
midterms.
Although
Florida has long been considered a swing state, Republicans have a considerable
edge heading into this election season. Republicans last year overtook
Democrats in Florida’s voter registration rolls. And Donald Trump carried the
state by three points in the 2020 presidential race, although Joe Biden
defeated him in the electoral college while also winning the national popular
vote by four points.
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