Trump's Reckless Remarks on Classified Documents and Mar-a-Lago Docs.

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Trump's Reckless Remarks on Classified Documents and Mar-a-Lago Docs.
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Former President Donald Trump admitted to knowingly taking government records from the White House and claimed he had the right to do so under the Presidential Records Act, a claim legal experts have called "muddled" and "confused." The Justice Department has been investigating whether Trump illegally kept national defense documents at his properties, including Mar-a-Lago, and whether he obstructed the government's efforts to retrieve them. Trump's lawyers have argued that White House institutional processes, not intentional decisions by Trump, were responsible for sensitive material being taken. Prosecutors are seeking to understand how documents were stored at Mar-a-Lago and who had access to them.

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