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The former president told the National Archives he planned to put a trove of records held at Mar-a-Lago in a presidential library, according to a Wall ...

The raid came after federal agents were concerned documents still remained at the property, after serving a grand jury subpoena and spending months trying to negotiate with the former president to recover the documents in a less invasive way, according to the Journal and the Post. The judge indicated he may release parts of the affidavit, a document several major media outlets have argued should be public. [released](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2022/08/12/federal-search-warrant-released-in-fbis-trump-mar-a-lago-raid/?sh=4bdb8e00748e) by the Justice Department. Trump’s lawyers have [asked](https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2022/08/22/trump-asks-judge-to-appoint-special-master-to-review-seized-mar-a-lago-records/?sh=492e888d6299) a federal judge to appoint an independent “special master” to review whether the documents taken from Mar-a-Lago are private or privileged. [FBI Search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Heads to Court](https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-search-of-trumps-mar-a-lago-heads-to-court-11661342557) (Wall Street Journal) [FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search followed months of resistance, delay by Trump](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/23/trump-records-mar-a-lago-fbi/) (Washington Post) [Trump Had More Than 300 Classified Documents at Mar-a-Lago](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/22/us/politics/trump-mar-a-lago-documents.html) (New York Times) [Judge Set To Release Part Of Trump Search Affidavit](https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2022/08/18/judge-set-to-release-part-of-trump-search-affidavit/?sh=5611298e2ca6) (Forbes) [Mar-A-Lago Search: Here Are The Key Events As Report Suggests Trump Kept Hundreds Of Classified Documents At His Private Residence](https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2022/08/23/mar-a-lago-search-here-are-the-key-events-as-report-suggests-trump-kept-hundreds-of-classified-documents-at-his-private-residence/?sh=64e282b71fbb) (Forbes) Under the Presidential Records Act, White House documents must be preserved and given to the National Archives once a president leaves office. [ordered](https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2022/08/18/judge-set-to-release-part-of-trump-search-affidavit/?sh=5611298e2ca6) the Justice Department to send a redacted version of the affidavit federal officials used to obtain a search warrant for Mar-a-Lago, after the DOJ said it would not release the document because it could obstruct the ongoing investigation. More than 300. [according](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/22/us/politics/trump-mar-a-lago-documents.html) to the New York Times. [report](https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-search-of-trumps-mar-a-lago-heads-to-court-11661342557), a day after the Washington Post reported Trump tried to fight FBI [efforts](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/23/trump-records-mar-a-lago-fbi/) to review documents handed over to the National Archives in January. [reported](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/22/us/politics/trump-mar-a-lago-documents.html) earlier this week Trump had described the documents as “mine,” with both outlets citing sources familiar with the discussions. [recovered](https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2022/02/07/national-archives-took-15-boxes-of-white-house-records-from-mar-a-lago-which-should-have-never-been-there/) from the president’s Mar-a-Lago home in January because Trump’s lawyers wanted more time to figure out if the records were protected by executive privilege, the Post reported, citing sources familiar with the investigation, court filings as well as email [correspondences](https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/full-text-national-archives-letter-trump-classified-documents).

Trump-era records were not returned to the government during the waning days of Donald Trump's presidency despite a determination by one of his lawyers that ...

Shortly after Trump left office, the negotiations for return of the documents between the Archives and Trump's team began, according to the source familiar. The Archives was aware that White House records management had identified documents were missing even before Trump left office, according to a source familiar. The National Archives has previously said at least 15 boxes of White House records were recovered from Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in January -- including some that were classified. In January, Trump agreed to return 15 boxes -- not the 24 boxes the Archives was aware of -- that were being kept at his residence at Mar-a-Lago -- boxes that the Archives determined contained classified documents. The FBI "...

The more Donald Trump took a direct, hands-on role in keeping highly classified materials, the more he's personally responsible for this scandal.

Philbin and another adviser who was contacted by the Archives in April have told others that they had not been involved with the process and were surprised by the discovery of classified records.” Trump could’ve cleaned up this mess, but chose not to: “In a legal filing on Monday, Trump’s lawyers insisted that he had been cooperating with Justice Department requests,” the Post added. These were highly meaningful secrets: “Some material recovered in the search is considered extraordinarily sensitive,” the article added, “two people familiar with the search said, because it could reveal carefully guarded secrets about U.S. Agents were told that Trump was a pack rat who had been personally overseeing his collection of White House records since even before leaving Washington and had been reluctant to return anything. [reported](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/22/us/politics/trump-mar-a-lago-documents.html) this week, for example, that late last year, under pressure to return the secrets he wasn’t supposed to have, Trump “went through the boxes himself,” deciding which classified materials [he felt most entitled to](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/classified-docs-trump-brought-mar-lago-come-focus-rcna44394), federal laws and national security interests be damned. But among the most frequently referenced talking points is that the former president may not have been personally responsible for bringing highly classified materials to his glorified country club.

After leaving the White House in January 2021, former US president Donald Trump took with him hundreds of pages of highly classified documents relating to ...

Supporting The Times of Israel isn’t a transaction for an online service, like subscribing to Netflix. Sign in to stop seeing this](//crm.timesofisrael.com/sign-in) “Therefore, we seek judicial assistance in the aftermath of an unprecedented and unnecessary raid” at Mar-a-Lago. Sure, we'll remove all ads from your page and you'll unlock access to some excellent Community-only content. This is the face of a true [#patriot]! It cannot be used as a weapon for political purposes,” the lawyers wrote Monday.

Several months after former President Donald Trump's departure from the White House, the National Archives and Records Administration contacted Trump ...

[15 boxes of material](National Archives cited Cipollone's approval in demand for Trump records) to the agency in January. Cipollone was tasked with representing Trump to the National Archives, according to the report. After weeks of back-and-forth discussion, Trump's team capitulated and agreed to return The Presidential Records Act of 1978 [TRUMP RETAINED OVER 700 PAGES WORTH OF CLASSIFIED RECORDS, NATIONAL ARCHIVES SAYS](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-retained-over-700-pages-classified-material) He reportedly noted that the National Archives was aware that correspondence Trump had with former President Barack Obama and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was missing.

Christina Bobb and Evan Corcoran, two lawyers for Donald Trump, may have put themselves at risk with their involvement in a statement provided to the DOJ ...

Imagine that the written statement Corcoran prepared and Bobb signed was indeed false — and that they knew it when they gave it to the Justice Department. We also still don’t know exactly what the signed statement says; [The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/23/trump-records-mar-a-lago-fbi/) took pains to note it has not reviewed its “specific wording.” Still, the Post also reported Tuesday that the statement “is of interest to the FBI, which is investigating the veracity of its claims.” And it will remain of interest to me as well. And if the FBI or DOJ seeks testimony from Bobb or Corcoran, that would likely come with a collateral consequence: having to withdraw from representing Trump. [Bobb, for her part, retweeted journalist John Solomon’s story Monday ](https://twitter.com/christina_bobb/status/1561874172325806080?s=20&t=_E0O_fNI1VTvTdgwJ9pzYQ)about the National Archives’ granting the FBI and DOJ access to the classified material Trump returned in January, accusing the Biden White House of having “facilitated” the DOJ’s criminal probe into Trump’s handling of documents. [Costello moved to withdraw from Bannon’s trial team](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.237438/gov.uscourts.dcd.237438.98.0_3.pdf), arguing that as the only person who interacted with the Jan. But a federal judge in California ultimately ruled that even to the extent Eastman had a genuine attorney-client relationship with the Trump campaign, Eastman’s communications with Trump and others were discoverable under the crime-fraud exception. When she refused to testify to a grand jury, citing ethical obligations to her clients, Mueller’s team sought a court order compelling her testimony in order to determine whether her clients intentionally misled the DOJ — and Laurenza herself — about their foreign lobbying work. 8 — the reported June statement to the DOJ, prepared by Corcoran and signed by Bobb, was false. Let’s assume that both Corcoran and Bobb genuinely believed, based on representations from Trump, that there was no additional classified material at Mar-a-Lago beyond that which they provided to law enforcement on June 3. And that’s where some potential trouble begins for them — and for Trump — even in the best-case scenario. It asserted that, to the best of her knowledge, all classified material that was there had been returned, according to two people familiar with the statement.” Bobb, who is said to be the custodian of the documents, signed.

This discovery was made known to NARA, which led the Department of Justice to urge that the President ask NARA to grant the FBI access to the relevant boxes so ...

[trump](/search/topic?searchType=search&searchTerm=DONALD%20TRUMP)reportedly looked through those crates himself in late 2021. [government](/search/topic?searchType=search&searchTerm=GOVERNMENT)has subsequently discovered more than 300 sensitive documents that the former President held at his [florida](/search/topic?searchType=search&searchTerm=FLORIDA)residence, Mar-a-Lago, according to a New York Times story. Later, in June, representatives from the Justice Department visited the [florida](/search/topic?searchType=search&searchTerm=FLORIDA)residence with a subpoena seeking any new secret information.

Donald Trump speaks at a rally. It's true that few American presidents have found themselves on the wrong side of the criminal justice ...

He was found guilty of the charges in 1983 and sentenced to four years in jail but was allowed to remain free and the charges were eventually wiped away in an appeal. As for the answer to the trivia question up above, the only U.S. He remained one of the most powerful forces in Japanese politics even after the allegations. Meanwhile, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon was charged with embezzlement in 2017; he was later convicted of fraud and misuse of funds and was sentenced to five years in prison, though after appeals, he eventually served just one year in prison. In December 1872, Grant was caught speeding in his horse and buggy in the nation’s capital. That offers 27 cases to examine — and of these, only two OECD countries became less democratic within five years of arresting a current or former head of state: Mexico and Turkey. He ultimately was convicted for failing to hold Cabinet meetings during the crisis but was not sentenced to jail. The evidence shows that free countries — those that have strong records of protecting political rights and civil liberties — are just as likely to hold their current and former leaders accountable as unfree countries. In 76 other situations, a “not free” state arrested, indicted or imprisoned a former leader or current occupant. Of the 243 cases since 1972, 74 involved a free state that sought to hold a current or former leader accountable in the judicial system. But plenty of other countries have arrested, indicted or imprisoned their current or former leaders, and it’s not a mark against their health as a democracy. We then looked at whether the country’s freedom level designation changed within five years of the arrest (except for cases originating after 2020).

In the wake of an advancing investigation into Trump's handling of classified documents, a familiar defiance from the former President is on display.

On Wednesday, Biden responded to a reporter’s question about the FBI’s search of Mar a Lago, saying he was not told in advance about the search. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, when requesting permission to search Mar-a-Lago. The White House has insisted it has no involvement in the mechanics of the investigation. One point of contact between the White House and the National Archives on the issue came in April, when the White House counsel’s office affirmed a request from the Department of Justice to let national security officials examine the initial 15 boxes of records removed from Mar-a-Lago in order to assess any the security risks created by their having been improperly stored for a year and identify steps to protect intelligence programs, according to Steidel Wall’s letter. Two weeks later, Trump filed a motion in federal court to stop the FBI from reviewing the documents collected in the search, demanding a special master to review them to filter out information that may fall under executive privilege. Trump himself made the search public, confirming that it happened and decrying it in a public statement later that day. In January, after months of back and forth, Trump allowed 15 boxes of records to be delivered to the National Archives. Trump’s lawyers asked for more time, and after being given several more weeks, exerted the unfounded claim that the records, which belong to the federal government, were protected by Trump’s claim of executive privilege, even though he was no longer in office. 6, 2021, he derided it as “a continuation of the greatest witch hunt in the history of politics.” Sitting in the [Oval Office](https://time.com/5751532/why-democrats-attempts-to-rein-in-trump-with-impeachment-could-make-his-presidency-stronger/) with a foreign leader in December 2019, Trump said he felt the effort to impeach him was “a very sad thing for our country but it seems to be very good for me politically.” Trump’s court filings in response to the latest investigation may be giving prosecutors more ammunition to go after him. Whereas Trump was able to count on the support of Republicans in the Senate to ensure his acquittal during his impeachment trials, he faces no such protection in the current investigation.

Trump vetoed a plan to get vaccinated against COVID-19 alongside former presidents, according to a book by a husband and wife who worked on the pandemic ...

'You know, we're one of several couples that worked at the White House and in the administration. 'There's a chapter about discussing the Tiger King and whether or not we were going to pardon,' said Brian. He was White House deputy press secretary and deputy communications director, and former deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury And they pair thematically with issues raised in each chapter. And this is meant to be kind of the light-hearted side,' said Teresa. Trump ribbed his aide for turning up in a polo shirt

A redacted version of the affidavit the Justice Department relied on when federal agents searched the Florida estate of former president Donald Trump will ...

The affidavit is likely to contain key information about the FBI's basis for executing a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach on August 8. - The affidavit is likely to contain key information about the FBI's basis for executing a search warrant A judge has ordered the Justice Department to make public a redacted version of the affidavit it relied on when federal agents searched the Florida estate of former US president Donald Trump to look for classified documents.

A redacted version of the affidavit used to justify the Mar-a-Lago investigation will be released on Friday.

The Department of Justice, however, had resisted the move, arguing that its release could cause "irreparable damage" to its ongoing investigation. Trump says that request was quickly fulfilled According to Mr Trump, he told them: "Whatever you need, just let us know"

Affidavit is expected to contain information about investigation into Trump's retention of government secrets at Mar-a-Lago.

Notably, the cover sheet showed the department’s descriptions of potential crimes at Mar-a-Lago: wilful retention of national defense information, concealment or removal of government records, and obstruction of a federal investigation. One of his lawyers, Chrsitina Bobb, nonetheless attended the hearing last week to observe proceedings. Trump has said he supports unsealing the affidavit but filed no motion of his own. He assured the government: “This is going to be a considered, careful process.” How much of the affidavit will be redacted was not clear. [Florida](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/florida), that he was inclined to make some of the affidavit public. The judge, however, disagreed that the justice department could make nothing of the affidavit public, and ordered Bratt to file one with redactions to protect the probe in case he decided to make it public. [filed a motion](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/20/trump-mar-a-lago-search-fbi-legal-motion) seeking the appointment of a so-called special master to determine what documents federal investigators can use as evidence, and to get a more detailed list of what was seized. [unauthorized retention of government secrets](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/23/trump-illegal-documents-fbi-mar-a-lago) at Mar-a-Lago, which could arise to potential charges including under the Espionage Act or obstruction of justice. [two-page ruling](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854.94.0_7.pdf), the judge said the justice department’s proposed redactions were specifically restricted to keep secret grand jury material, the identities of uncharged individuals and sources and methods used in the criminal investigation – and the remainder could become public. The order from Judge Bruce Reinhart, who approved the FBI search warrant and is overseeing the case, instructed the justice department to release a redacted version of the affidavit that he had reviewed before noon on Friday. [Donald Trump’s](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida earlier this month should be partly unsealed according to redactions proposed by the justice department.

The FBI raided the Mar-a-Lago home of former President Donald Trump earlier this month as part of a criminal probe of removed White House documents.

A group of media organizations had asked Reinhart to unseal the entire affidavit. espionage act and the law prohibiting the removal of official records. That proposal itself is sealed, making it impossible to know what the DOJ wants to be kept hidden in the search warrant affidavit.

Judge gives US Justice Department until midday Friday to release redacted document underpinning Mar-a-Lago search.

“At a minimum, any portions of the Brief that recite those facts about the investigation, without revealing additional ones not yet publicly available — in addition to any other portions that pose no threat to the investigation — should be unsealed,” the news organisations wrote. “The amount of information that could be left after those redactions may be very, very limited,” Finkelstein said. Reinhart’s order on Thursday came just hours after a Justice Department spokesman confirmed that prosecutors had submitted a sealed copy of its affidavit with proposed redactions to the judge. It cannot be used as a weapon for political purposes.” [valid reasons](/news/2022/8/15/us-justice-dept-opposes-effort-to-unseal-trump-search-affidavit) to keep some of the document secret, including the need to protect the identities of witnesses and federal agents, as well as the government’s investigation and strategy and grand jury material. A judge in the United States has ordered the Department of Justice to publicly release a redacted version of an affidavit that underpinned

A redacted version of the affidavit justifying the FBI search of former president Donald Trump's Florida residence must be unsealed in federal court by noon ...

The document will be unsealed by noon Friday. In its most complete form, it would disclose important details about the government's justification for ...

But the affidavit is still likely to be the most comprehensive description of events to date and could provide, at the very least, a cogent timeline of the government’s efforts to retrieve the documents from Mr. Ultimately, however, it is the contents of the boxes recovered from Mr. Trump and the president of Judicial Watch, a conservative legal advocacy group that also sued to unseal the complete document. [more than 700 pages of classified documents](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/23/us/politics/trump-classified-documents-fbi-letter.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-trump-raid&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc), according to a [letter](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/23/us/politics/national-archives-letter-trump-fbi.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-trump-raid&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc)from the National Archives. 6 investigation now say he should adopt a posture of complete disclosure on the Mar-a-Lago search to defend the integrity of the investigation. Trump’s legal team has not yet seen the affidavit; the government is not required to show it to them. The former president’s allies, who have also not seen the document, argue that its disclosure will prove Mr. Garland is also overseeing the sprawling investigation into the attack on the Capitol on Jan. Justice Department officials had previously suggested they would abide by his general guidance but push hard to scrub anything that could expose witnesses in the case to intimidation or retribution by Mr. The Justice Department is said to have retrieved [more than 300 classified documents](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/22/us/politics/trump-mar-a-lago-documents.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-trump-raid&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc)from Mr. Trump’s Florida residence be unsealed by noon on Friday — paving the way for the disclosure of potentially revelatory details about a search with enormous legal and political implications. Judge Reinhart appeared to accept the requested cuts and, moving more quickly than government lawyers had expected, directed the department to release the redacted affidavit in a brief two-page order issued from Federal District Court in Southern Florida.

A judge has ordered the Justice Department to make public a redacted version of the affidavit it relied on when federal agents searched the Florida estate of former US president Donald Trump to look for classified documents.

The affidavit is likely to contain key information about the FBI's basis for executing a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach on August 8. - The affidavit is likely to contain key information about the FBI's basis for executing a search warrant A judge has ordered the Justice Department to make public a redacted version of the affidavit it relied on when federal agents searched the Florida estate of former US president Donald Trump to look for classified documents.